What is Mortal Kombat Nightblood: The Dawn of Shadows? The short answer is that it is a Mortal Kombat-based roll playing game (or RPG). The long answer is that this is a story-driven RPG, in which we wish to craft an interactive Mortal Kombat story where players' characters can explore, interact, and yes, fight for the fate of Earth Realm. However, please remember that this is a story-driven RPG, not a fight-driven one, the characters do get to fight quite a bit, but we want to people to enjoy reading this as a story instead of a list of fights.

            With that said, what is Mortal Kombat Nightblood: The Dawn of Shadows about? It is a dark time for Earth Realm as a terrible darkness has taken hold of inter-Realm travel, making it impossible for anyone to traverse back and forth from other Realms. To make things worse, the Guardian of Earth Realm, Rayden the God of Thunder, has disappeared, leaving Earth Realm in chaos and Fujin, the Wind God to hastily take up him former mentor's mantle. Earth's forces are now under attack on all fronts from the mysterious Hand Ninja seemingly fueled by an unknown dark power as the situation seems very bleak indeed for Earth Realm and her forces...

            Thrown into a mess not of their own making, three strangers, one Kimberly Farell, Saneth, and Jessica Craven, a.k.a. Jai'eesh, find themselves drawn to the bustling city of Los Angeles through the efforts of Earth's new Guardian, the Wind God Fujin. There, Kimberly Farell and Jai'eesh meet up with the mysterious Bastina Nile who raises more questions than answers as they first learn about the grave peril the Earth now faces. However, soon after these two women meet up with this peril first hand when Kimberly Farell is attacked by the infamous Hand Ninja while she was meeting with one Aaron Wilder of the elusive Phantom Core. Apparently the Hand, who are working for a darker unnamed power, wish nothing more than the deaths of Kimberly Farell, Bastina Nile, Jai'eesh and the mysterious fighter Biao Li.

            The members of the Phantom Core admirably held off the Hand attack, however the Hand did not count on the insane mage Jai'eesh and her two Nightmare felines, Mr. S and Pinto Bean, to step in and mop the floor with them. During the battle the Wind God Fujin appeared, apparently to confront Jai'eesh, as she had a bone to pick with the God. Jai'eesh tried to broker a deal with the God, and to prove her point, she killed off the rest of the attacking Hand ninja with a display her powers. Fujin was unimpressed and promptly refused Jai'eesh's offer and left her and the situation in the capable hands of Aaron Wilder and the other members of the Phantom Core.

            The Phantom Core then sets up base in a local hospital to take care of their two new wards and their own wounded. There, Kimberly Farell and Jai'eesh meet the other members of the Core, James Woods, Allen Greenburn, Hector Rameriez, Nathan Nightrazor, and Alicia Denton. Yet before anyone can get acquainted in the least, a menace appears as the undead assassin Wyvern, contracted by Reiko to kill Kimberly Farell. As Kimberly did her best to fend off her would be murderer, the Hand once more try to eliminate the Phantom Core members. Once again, the Phantom Core prevailed, beating back the Hand with a little help from Jai'eesh's two Nightmare cats, and subdued Wyvern to be questioned later.

            Knowing they were not safe, the Phantom Core prepared to leave for their secret base, under orders to bring along Kimberly and Jai'eesh. During this brief reprieve Aaron Wilder answered Kimberly and Jai'eesh's questions about the situation at hand with Earth Realm in danger. However, unbeknownst to them, Wyvern escaped her captors only to reappear attacking Aaron Wilder, much to the ire of Jai'eesh. After telling Kimberly to get Aaron out of there, Jai'eesh and her Nightmares confronted the undead Wyvern. A fierce battle between Jai'eesh and Wyvern ensued, one that Wyvern barely escaped from intact.

As the Phantom Core evacuated the hospital, Jai'eesh teamed up with Nathan Nightrazor to hunt down and destroy the wounded assassin Wyvern. Yet before Nathan could deliver the killing blow to finish off Wyvern, a paralyzing evil darkness swept across the entire area, but just as quickly as it had come upon them, it disappeared taking Wyvern with it. Not stopping to ask questions, the reminder of the Phantom Core immediately left the area, taking Kimberly Farell and Jai'eesh with them to their secret base.

Seemingly safe for the moment, Kimberly Farell, Jai'eesh and Saneth now meet with the enigmatic Director Jhonathan Sears, leader of the Phantom Core. Yet the darkness that wants them all dead is still out there, waiting for the right chance to strike...