Quan Chi's Fortress

Introduced in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, 'Quan Chi's Fortress' is the interior of the wicked necromancer Quan Chi’s own home and hidden citadel, and it is located in Outworld.

It features the fighting arena on the right and Quan Chi’s inner sanctum in the "centerfield". The glowing egg in the background is the inner sanctum, a chamber protected by magical runes that covers it, where Quan Chi leaves his body, periodically recharging his power as well as himself astroprojects his consciousness to other planes of existence. The center ring rests above a network of lasers. The lasers make a spider web pattern which is fitting for this evil sorcerer.

Death Trap

This arena featured a death trap when it returned in "Mortal Kombat: Deception", which had laser fields below. The lasers make up of a spider web pattern which is fitting for the evil sorcerer Quan Chi. The opponent gets knocked off the platform and into a free fall until they're sliced to pieces by the lasers.

Concept Art

In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, there was a concept art based on the exterior of Quan Chi's Fortress, but with another name for the villain's own citadel called "Shoal of Quan Chi" (or "Quan Chi's Shoal"): the evil sorcerer's lair is shown built on a shoal which is sandbar, (or just bar in context), or gravebar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water like an island, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles. Shoals are characteristically long and narrow (linear) and develop where a stream or ocean current promotes deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoalin) of the water. Shoals like this one, often appears in a lake, in a river, or in a sea. On the Shoal lies a balcony-like road complete with a courtyard, riddled with huge stone heads resembling Quan Chi's face, built around the water and leads directly to the entrance of the fortress where the demon sorcerer Quan Chi resides.

TV appearance

The demon sorcerer Quan Chi has another, yet hidden lair called Quan Chi's Palace in Outworld, secretly built and away from prying eyes, and it is first featured in the 9th episode "Quan Chi" of the TV series Mortal Kombat: Conquest and appeared throughout the entire series. It is somewhat a grand yet, sinister-looking palace with a yin-yang emblem above its front doors, built inside a mountainside with 5 claw-like rocky pillars over it. Inside his sanctuary is where Quan Chi resides and his assassins report back to him.