Long ago, in the realm known as the Wyldness, an ambitious raven whose name is lost to history founded a group of covert operatives known as the Order of Deep Shadow.
By abusing the power of corrupted Chi, he was able to grow to a massive size, and, soon, even the many armies of Chima quaked in their boots.
For Chima!
His reign would be cut short, however, by five (ignore the fact that I only have three; this isn’t like King Arthur and the Holy Hand Grenade) of his even-more-ambitious disciples, who would later come to be known as the Forbidden Five. One of their number, Nokt, convinced Raven King to down a brew, which, unbeknownst to the king, was poisoned. When the king next awoke, it would be in the Cursed Realm.
Of Ninjago’s growing number of revealed-on-social-media characters, the Raven King has intrigued me more than most. Since much about him has yet to be revealed, I took quite a few liberties.
To be honest, I originally made this MOC as a G2 creation many months ago. Revisiting it recently, I realized how much better it would work for the Ninjago character, especially since he had the same name. After making the torso more complex, I fixed some other aspects (originally, he had twin Gali Uniter blades, which did not fit his color scheme) and reworked his wings (initially, they were built into his arms, but, once I pivoted him to be based on the Ninjago character, I changed them to be separate appendages, which is much closer to the typical wing structure of Chima ravens). His face was originally a magenta Ben 10 claw, with the Von Nebula spike-crown attached by way of rubber band, but I reworked that as well.
I am a little cross with my Bionicle collection, which somehow managed to spew out just one of part 92907 in black; that’s why the one on his face is light gray. If I find another somewhere, I’ll probably swap it in, but, for now, I decided that the light gray one looked better on his face than on his back.
If there’s anything in my expanded backstory for the Raven King that contradicts DR:S4P2, please don’t mention it, as I haven’t seen the leaked season yet. Similarly, if anything contradicts Ninjago lore revealed online before or after the leaking, I was not able to check the wiki for the same reason as above, and thus I had to write this based on my best memories of him.
