Chernobog

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**~ GODS LIST ~**

***"Utilize the shadows to track and lock down your enemy before tearing them apart with a barrage of obsidian."***

**Chernobog** is one of the playable Gods in SMITE.

## Lore

Sunlight's last grasp reached up from the horizon like the clawing hand of a drowning man. Black against a blackening sky, the Great Mountain's frozen peak loomed.

In the crannies and crevisses, in the darkened recesses of stone and ice, the denizens of nightmare crawled and squirmed. Silken shadows given form, withered hags of sorcerous witchcraft, leathery gargoyles, and skeletal fiends - all creeping ever upward, gathering for their unholy sabbath.

Night at last swallowed light. Crystalline silence befell the summit. The wicked waited for their God. The pointed peak cracked and opened, two colossal bat-like wings spreading. He emerged, exultant.

Creatures of every horror danced and cheered in twitches and fits, calling to their God. His jagged finger pointed and his minions of malice spewed forth to spread fear and death and darkness.

Chernobog, Lord of Darkness, grinned.

## Non-Conquest Balance

These additional modifiers will affect the god when they're played in any game modes besides Conquest:

* -15% Ultimate Cooldown

## Trivia

### General

* Chernobog was the first Slavic god in SMITE.
* Parts of Chernobog's lore could be references to the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from the 1940 Disney film Fantasia.
* The actor who did the voice for Chernobog, Doug Cockle, also did the English voice for the character Geralt of Rivia from the video game series The Witcher, which is strongly based on Slavic mythology.

* Doug Cockle also voiced Totem Caller Hou Yi.

* His joke ▶️  *"There are too many sun gods for my liking."*  and most of his directed taunts are aimed at sun gods.
* His other joke ▶️  *"I had a fight with my brother, and it was like night and day. No, literally, we created night and day."* , could be a hint to Belobog, which is alleged to be his brother in some lore.
* His last joke ▶️  *"Followers used to speak curses into a bowl in my name, but I never understood why."* , which could be a reference to him also being worshipped as the god of bad fate.
* There is an announcer pack themed after Chernobog, You can hear it here: Chernobog Announcer pack.

### God Skins

* **Diabol**

* "Diabol" means "Devil" in Slavic.
* This skin's color is the opposite of Default Chernobog.

* **Haunted Nightmare/Ruby Ravager**

* This skin shares its theme with Spectral Sword Ares, Corroded Colossus Atlas, Lich Queen Bellona, Soulshroud Charon, Grim End Hercules, Spectral Blade Pele, Spectral Shifter The Morrigan, Voidsworn Surtr, Haunted King Thor and Iron Tyrant Xing Tian.

* **Galactic Void**

* The actor who did this skin's voice lines, Jonathan David Bullock, also voiced Badlands Vulcan.
* This skin shares its theme with Gemini Agni, Cosmic Power Anubis, Cosmic Traveler Cliodhna, Cosmic Fortune Ganesha, Infinity Wave He Bo, Cosmic Conqueror Hercules, Dark Matter Khepri, Nebula Medusa, Galaxy Maverick Ne Zha, Galaxy Shaper Nox, Cosmic Sol, Galaxy Forger Vulcan and Galactic Gentleman Yu Huang.

* **Oni**

* This skin was based on the Oni a creature from Japanese folklore.

* More specifically, this skin is based on the Tengu.

* The actor who voiced this skin, Andrew Love, also voiced Frost Bite Cerberus, Gladiator Guan Yu, Wise Wizard Merlin and Phoenix Ra.
* This skin shares its theme with Oni Ronin Anhur, Senko Sage Anubis, Oni Guardian Ares, Oni Huntress Artemis, Spirit Guide Artio, Oni Adventurer Athena, Great Tengu Cernunnos, Oni Musha Hachiman, Oni Hunter Rama and Yurei Susano.

* **Archangel**

* This skin completely changes thematic from darkness to light.
* In the wallpaper version of this skin's card art, default Chernobog can be seen defeated in the background.
* Both this skin and Galactic Void Chernobog were voiced by Jonathan David Bullock.
* This skin shares its theme with Midnight Dove Awilix, Radiant Heroine Bellona, Angel of Chaos Cthulhu, Celestial Mayhem Discordia, Celestial Eset, Sacred Grounds Geb, Divine Wind Gilgamesh, Inner Demon Hel, Seraph Horus, Heaven's Arrow Hou Yi, Striking Archon Ishtar, Divine Axe Izanami, Divine Right Jing Wei, Gazing Archon Medusa, Celestial Deliverer Mercury, Master of Light Merlin, Celestial Guard Odin, Holo Halo Pele, Radiant Archon Ra, Sacred Arrow Rama, Celestial Inferno Surtr, Archon Thanatos, Angelic Archon Yemoja and Almighty Archon Zeus.

* **Biohacker**

* This skin is one of the few to add a tail to a god that previously didn't have one. It shares this trait with Saurian Conjurer Ah Puch, Death Dragon Anubis, Sashimi Neko/Sushi Neko Bacchus, Chaacolate Chaac, Labyrinth Keeper Heimdallr, Dragonguard Horus, Pendragon King Arthur and Crystal Colossus Ymir.
* This skin shares its theme with Biohacker Kali.

* **Raven King**

* A number of this skin's voicelines reference Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven".
* The actor who voiced this skin, Jordan Dash Cruz, also voiced The rabbit from the Koven skin, Raxalotl Ratatoskr, Pixel Hammer Thor and Vizier Thoth.
* This skin shares its theme with Necrowmancer Ah Puch, Crow of Torment Hades and Murder of Crows Sobek.

* **Shadow Tech**

* This skin shares its theme with Jackal Tech Anubis, Solar Vanguard Atlas, Tremor Tech Cabrakan, Vamp Tech Camazotz, Glaive Tech Cernunnos, Storm Tech Chaac, Dual Tech Hel, Flare Tech Hou Yi, Warp Tech Janus, Living Alloy Jormungandr, Kuzenbot Kuzenbo, Sentai Mulan, Revenge Tech Nemesis, Omni Tech, Reaper Tech Thanatos, Ragnarok Force X Thor, Whirlwind Tech, Cryomech Ymir and Sky Tech Zeus.

## Skins

* Default
* Diabol
* Haunted Nightmare
* Galactic Void
* Oni
* Archangel
* Biohacker
* Raven King
* Shadow Tech
* Ruby Ravager
* Golden
* Legendary
* Diamond

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests, or via direct purchase.  The skin was part of the Heavenly Light event.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin could only be obtained by unlocking all the contents of the Slavic Chest from the Divine Uprising event.   This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Hera's Odyssey event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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 Requirements
  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Odyssey: Reckoning event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin was part of the Court of Midnight event.  This skin can only be obtained as a rare roll from certain Treasure Chests.

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  This skin comes with custom character animations and ability effects.  This skin can only be obtained by purchasing and achieving enough levels in the Dark Dominion Battle Pass.

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## Changelog

**SMITE Version 10.13.7832.2 (December 12, 2023)**

* **Living Nightmare**

* Increased Cooldown from 110s to 120s
* Reduced Movement Speed from 20% to 15%
* Decreased Damage Mitigation from 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% to 5/7.5/10/12.5/15%

**SMITE Version 10.12.7798.1 (November 14, 2023)**

* **Heart of Cold**

* Decreased Base Damage of Explosion from 20% to 15% of your Basic Attack Damage

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Increased Cooldown from 15/14/13/12/11s to 15/14.5/14/13.5/13s

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Increased Cooldown from 7s to 8s

**SMITE Version 10.10.7739.8 (October 10, 2023)**

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Decreased Slow from 25% to 20%

* **Living Nightmare**

* Decreased Clone Slow from 4% per stack to 3% per stack
* Decreased Movement Speed buff from 25% to 20%

**SMITE Version 10.10.7739.5 (September 26, 2023)**

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Decreased Attack Speed stim from 40/45/50/55/60% to 30/35/40/45/50%

**SMITE Version 10.9.7702.2 (August 29, 2023)**

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Increased Projectile Speed from 105 to 125
* Decreased minimum air time from 0.2s to 0.1s
* God95 A01 Deployable Mesh

* Increased Collision Radius from 20 to 25

* Added 25% Slow for 2s on initial hit

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Shifted Duration from 3/3.5/4/4.5/5s to 4s at all ranks
* Decreased Cooldown from 12s to 7s
* Decreased Mana cost from 50/55/60/65/70 to 30/35/40/45/50

* **Into Darkness**

* Decreased total dash time from 0.65 to 0.55
* Increased damage from 60/75/90/105/120 to 75/90/105/120/135
* Removed Slow

**SMITE Version 10.8.7671 (August 8, 2023)**

* **Non-Conquest**

* -15% Ultimate Cooldown

**SMITE Version 10.2.7456.4 (February 21, 2023)**

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Decreased Mana Cost from 60/65/70/75/80 to 50/55/60/65/70

* **Into Darkness**

* Decreased Mana Cost from 70 to 50 at all ranks
* Decreased Cooldown from 18/17/16/15/14s to 16/15.5/15/14.5/14s

**SMITE Version 9.7.7157.8 (July 26, 2022)**

* **Living Nightmare**

* Decreased Damage Mitigation Chernobog gains upon landing from 10/15/20/25/30% to 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%
* Decreased max stacks on the slow the shadow clones apply from 4 stacks to 3 stacks (decreased max flow from 16% to 12%)

**SMITE Version 9.6.7130.11 (June 28, 2022)**

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Decreased Detonate Base Damage from 50/80/110/140/170 to 40/70/100/130/160
* Decreased Detonate Physical Power Scaling from 80% to 70%

* **Living Nightmare**

* Decreased Bonus Movement Speed from 30% to 25%

**SMITE Version 9.1.6950.5 (January 25, 2022)**

* **Heart of Cold**

* Increased Base damage on detonate from 15% to 20% of Chernobog’s basic attack power

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Speed up the travel time on the initial hit
* Increased Range from 55 to 60

**SMITE Version 8.1.6381.5 (January 26, 2021)**

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Increased Attack Speed from 20/30/40/50/60% to 40/45/50/55/60%.
* Decreased Mana cost from 70/90 to 60/80.

**SMITE Version 7.5.6039 (May 19, 2020)**

* **Living Nightmare**

* Fixed an issue where his shadow clones could path into or spawn inside phoenixes, making them invalid targets for Chernobog to land at.

**SMITE Version 6.11.5701.1 (October 15, 2019)**

* **General**

* Fixed Archangel VGS saying “Enemy Ultimate Incoming” instead of “Enemy Ultimate Down”.

**SMITE Version 6.10.5654.3 (September 17, 2019)**

* **Into Darkness**

* Fixed an issue where If Chernobog dashes into a wall while being chased by Persephone's Plant, the over head icon remains.

**SMITE Version 6.2.5291 (February 21, 2019)**

* **General**

* Updated Chernobog's Archangel skin Ult FX to look different from CC immunity.

**SMITE Version 5.20.5103.3 (October 29, 2018)**

* **General**

* Fixed Chernobog Oni incorrectly having ‘Special 2’ emote in VGS menu.

**SMITE Version 5.18.5022.1 (October 1, 2018)**

* **Living Nightmare**

* This ability no longer triggers his passive on every basic attack. His passive will now continue to function normally during the effects of this ability.

**SMITE Version 5.16.4960.4 (September 4, 2018)**

* **Living Nightmare**

* Reduced Damage Mitigation from 10/17.5/25/32.5/40% to 10/15/20/25/30%.
* Decreased max number of stacks from slow from 5 to 4.

**SMITE Version 5.15.4934 (August 20, 2018)**

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Decreased Base Damage of the Initial Hit from 70/100/130/160/190 to 70/95/120/145/170.

* **Living Nightmare**

* Decreased mitigation scaling from 20/25/30/35/40% to 10/17.5/25/32.5/40%.

**SMITE Version 5.14.4910 (August 6, 2018)**

* **Into Darkness**

* Chernobog can no longer recall to base while inside of a wall.

**SMITE Version 5.13.4890 (July 24, 2018)**

* **General**

* Fixed an issue where he would randomly T pose in lobby.

**SMITE Version 5.12.4860 (July 9, 2018)**

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Decreased Attack Speed Buff from 30/40/50/60/70% to 20/30/40/50/60%.

* **Living Nightmare**

* Fixed an issue where Chernobog could reveal enemies for longer than intended if he died while using his ultimate.
* Decreased Shadow Slow from 5% stacking 4 times to 4% stacking 5 times.

**SMITE Version 5.9.4788.8 (June 1, 2018)**

* **General**

* Fixed a few crash issues with this god.

**SMITE Version 5.9.4788.4 (May 30, 2018)**

* **General**

* Improved audio on is Basic Attacks to better match visuals.
* Fixed an issue where Chernobog had an incorrect pantheon icon.

* **Crystallized Curses**

* Decreased mana cost from 60/65/70/75/80 to 50/55/60/65/70.
* Increased initial damage from 50/80/110/140/170 to 70/100/130/160/190.

* **Vicious Barrage**

* Decreased mana cost from 80/85/90/95/100 to 70/75/80/85/90.

* **Into Darkness**

* Made improvements to ensure players enter the wall when they expect to and don't get auto ejected.
* Fixed an issue where players would auto-eject from the wall in higher ping environments.
* Fixed an issue where on-hit items like The Crusher were being procced twice.

* **Living Nightmare**

* Removed the post-fire time from this ability. (from 0.2 to 0)
* Decreased minimum airtime from 1.2 to 1.
* Decreased maximum airtime from 3 to 2.6.
* Fixed an issue where traveling to a shadow could result in the player colliding with a wall. This resulted in them flying into the air and being unable to move.
* Fixed an issue where Chernobog could stutter on landing.

**SMITE Version 5.8.4766.4 (May 15, 2018)**

* Chernobog has been added to the game.