Ages ago in the Arnyek Islands, D'Vorah watched as the Kytinn elders argued among themselves on the eve of Outworld's invasion. D'Vorah refused to participate in the discussion, knowing it was too late, and as the emperor Shao Kahn arrived with his general Reiko and champion Goro, D'Vorah did not flee from the emperor and stood her ground. When Shao Kahn demanded to know if she was Kytinn's queen, D'Vorah declared herself his humble servant and knelt before the emperor, though in truth D'Vorah hated the conqueror but lied to spare herself from her people's fate as slaves.