D'Vorah (Mortal Kombat)

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D'Vorah is a female video game character who features in Mortal Kombat.

Biography

D'Vorah was a female member of a race of sentient colonial insectoids known as the Kytinn that lived in the island realm of Arnyek. Their solitary nature meant that they had no concept of working together for the common defence of their realm thus making it a conquest by Shao Kahn who merged it with Outworld. In time, she came to adapt to her new surroundings where her uncharacteristic loyalty and insightfulness led to her joining Kahn’s empire. Following a quick rise to political power, she came to serve the Emperor as one of his closest advisors. This was until his defeat and death during his invasion of Earthrealm. In the aftermath, divisions arose over the rule of Outworld with D’Vorah coming to side with the warlord Kotal Kahn who rose to power. During a flashback to Shao Kahn's tournament in Outworld, D'Vorah was overseeing the transporting of the captured Shaolin Monks with Baraka and his Tarkata when Raiden, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao arrived to liberate the monks. When Baraka was defeated, D'Vorah battled Raiden and was defeated. Sometime after Shao Kahn's death, it was shown that D'Vorah helped Ko'atal who deposed Mileena, whom she had previously served. In the process, she killed Baraka. It was D'Vorah who gave Ko'atal the name Kotal Kahn.

In the present, D'Vorah acted as Kotal Kahn's First Minister and official emissary. D'Vorah helps defend Kotal Kahn from Mileena and her rebel faction, who seek to reclaim the throne. D'Vorah is in Kotal Kahn's carriage as he discusses with Kano on learning Mileena's location, and goes out to investigate the blockade stopping them. When Mileena launches her surprise attack, D'Vorah kills several Tarkata during Mileena's attempted ambush on the emperor's life. Initially distrustful of Cassie and her team, D'Vorah begrudgingly accepts Kotal's command that they ally with the Earthrealm forces after Kung Jin bests him in combat. After the Special Forces obtain information on the amulet's location from Kano, D'Vorah volunteers to head for the Kuatan Jungle to retrieve Shinnok's amulet from Mileena. Although she insists on going alone, Cassie demands to go with her, to which Kotal complied.

After they arrive at the jungle, they encounter Rain and Tanya, and D'Vorah engages both in combat. After D'Vorah defeats them both, she plans to kill them but is prevented from doing so by Cassie. The pair enter the tent to retrieve Shinnok's amulet, only to be discovered by Mileena. D'Vorah confronts Mileena and defeats her, taking both the amulet and Mileena to Kotal Kahn. With the emperor's permission, D'Vorah executes Mileena with a lethal kiss, feeding her countless parasitic insects that devour her face from the inside. After Mileena's execution, it is revealed that D'Vorah has been operating for decades as a spy for Quan Chi. She kills the guards who are accompanying her to transport the amulet and steals it, taking it to Earthrealm to give it to Quan Chi. D'Vorah arrives too late to stop Quan Chi from being slain by Scorpion, but with enough time for Quan Chi to complete his incantation which frees Shinnok from his amulet.

With Quan Chi's death, D'Vorah becomes Shinnok's primary enforcer. She accompanies him to the Sky Temple, where she binds Johnny Cage and sets her insects to slowly devour his flesh. She is eventually defeated and knocked unconscious by Cassie Cage, who then goes on to fight the corrupted Shinnok. Following the defeat of the corrupted Shinnok, Sonya Blade orders the members of the Special Forces who come into the Jinsei Chamber to put the unconscious D'Vorah under arrest, as well as to apprehend Shinnok's other allies if possible.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Her people were noted to prefer their solitude.

D'Vorah's loyalty and insightfulness, unusual traits for a Kytinn, led to her quick political rise.

Ultimately, it was noted that D’Vorah’s true allegiance lay with the Kytinn swarm. Only the survival of the hive was her prime concern. As such, she lied, cheated and backstabbed everyone in order to support the swarm. This had led to her serving as a variety of rulers all of whom she ultimately betrayed.

In terms of speech, she was noted to speak in the third person and never used first person in her dialogue. As such, she tended to refer to herself as ‘this one’ when talking to others.

Powers and abilities

D'Vorah was part of a sentient colonial race called the Kytinn that were a swarm of sentient insects who shared a hive mind.

In terms of abilities, D’Vorah’s powers were largely drawn from her heritage as one of the Kytinn people. This gave her stinger barbs in her arms along with additional sharp limbs that she could use in combat. She could send forth an ovipositor that erupted from her gut that gripped a flying opponent and pumped a green liquid within their body. D’Vorah was able to generate webbing and she could use this as a rope. Furthermore, she had a pair of wings that allowed her to fly to a certain degree. In addition, she controlled a number of insects ranging from swarms of flying gnats to large grubs that she could use against her enemies in combat. Some of these insects had their own respective abilities such as firing green venomous resin or others that simply sting her enemies or even detonating to harm a target or a swarm that surround her foe. D’Vorah if badly wounded could see a large insect erupt from her body called the Mother Bug. This form could then shed its skin and restore her to her humanoid form. Her people the Kytinn were said to be immune to poisons.

D’Vorah was able to vomit masses of eggs into a living body that rapidly gestated into one of her insects with the process killing the host.

Notes

• D'Vorah was voiced by actor Kelly Hu where she made her first appearance in Mortal Kombat X (2015).

In other media

Comics

Appearances

• Mortal Kombat X: (2015)
• Mortal Kombat 11: (2019)

External Links

• Mortal Kombat Wiki Entry

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