Alright, to briefly explain Sarendi Mortess before I get to her lore, she is the daughter of the Elder God, Shinnok, and often goes by "Beast of Hunger" and most famously and infamously (in lore, specifically, not IRL), "The God Eater". Personality-wise, only a few single words, along with some phrases, can properly describe her: "savage", "monstrous", "gluttonous", "unpredictable", "wild", "a menace to all of society", and "an absolute fucking demon". Those are the best surface-level ways I can really say. Aside from "bizarre but also the most generic" in terms of lore. (Also, in terms of where she is in the timelines, if she were to be a canon character, she is from the second timeline, who then came to the third timeline to bring chaos to the realms, eating people along the way.)
Speaking of lore, I might as well.
First off, some background details before talking about the backstory itself. So, before there was Sarendi, aside from the Elder Gods and Titans, there was a deity by the alias of "The Fertile One".
The thing about the Fertile One is that, (even though Cetrion is technically Mother Nature in the sense that she is the goddess of nature), she is a Mother Nature equivalent, with the Fertile One can create life with just her presence and her blood, no matter the environment (meaning that life can be made whether it be in a conventional place like a jungle, or in an unconventional place like a concrete jungle, aka a city.)
Now, what had happened, which resulted in Sarendi's birth, is that Shinnok, back when he was still addicted to bloodshed, murdered the Fertile One in cold blood, along the way accidentally consuming some drops of the Fertile One's blood. About a few days later, he ends up having the worst stomach-ache known to man, on the ground, on his knees, clutching his stomach in pain.
When he was being helped up by his servants, one of them said that they felt something growing and moving around in his stomach, and reasonably, Shinnok wants it out as soon as possible, immediately, even. So, by Shinnok's painful plea, he had his stomach gutted and there, out came an infant who, once the child hit the ground, wailed and cried. (A gruesome scene, in my opinion.)
As Shinnok is recovering, while the child still wails, he tries to comprehend the situation, wondering frantically, "What happened to me? How did this happen? And why did it happen?", and then Cetrion came in, to see what the hell is going on, and then immediately knew what had happened and how it happened.
To put it, Shinnok killed the Fertile One, accidentally drank her blood, and ended up bearing the Fertile One's child. (It's mpreg, fucking mpreg, I say. With all the bluntness available.)
Cetrion tells Shinnok that he has to take responsibility as a father since he birthed the child. Not wanting to be a father, especially so immediately, he refuses, even suggesting that Cetrion should raise the child; however, since Cetrion also doesn't want to be a parent, she also refuses.
And common sense tells both of them that Kronika shouldn't raise the kid either because of two reasons, one is that Kronika doesn't want to raise another kid, and two, Kronika's a bad mother.
And well, they could find someone else to raise the kid, but due to Shinnok's infamy, the chances are incredibly slim. So Shinnok has no other choice but to be the father of who we later know as Sarendi Mortess, and he does a HORRIBLE JOB AT IT.
Just to keep it short, due to the parental neglect, Sarendi wasn't raised properly and was also starving, leading to her killing and eating Shinnok, and then Cetrion, and then finally Kronika. How? Who knows, perhaps pure, unbridled savagery?
Whatever, anyways, after that, she goes out and begins eating people, notably powerful foes, before being (briefly) imprisoned by the other Elder Gods and Gods in general.
But that imprisonment didn't last that long, since she managed to be freed by a human named Mariet, whom she befriended until the girl's untimely death, and then went on to go to the third timeline in search of more victims to consume.
Enough aside, I must warn y'all before I show you Sarendi. First off, a typical trigger warning for blood as her lips are just stained with it, and secondly, her design's not flashy or makes her stand out from, say, Mileena or Scorpion, it's low-key kinda boring if you grayscale it, but I tried my best.
Anyways, here's Sarendi Mortess.
(Had to size down the file because of Tumblr having errors with uploading this image.)
If you feel like the necklace that Sarendi is wearing seems familiar, congratulations, that's meant to look like Shinnok's amulet! (The only way to connect her to Shinnok, somehow. Aside from probably giving her horns, but whatever.)
