Chernobog

Chernobog
チェルノボグ
SMT2DeSumSH1P5XDCLD Artwork from Shin Megami Tensei II Artwork from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Artwork from Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Artwork from Persona 5: The Phantom X Artwork from Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book
Other Name(s)	DoomborgDemiKids Light Version and Dark Version The Black AvengerPersona 5 Persona 5 Royal
Origin	West Slavic culture
Race(s)	AkumaDevil Children Light Book and Dark Book Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book FuryShin Megami Tensei II Shin Megami Tensei if... Shin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse Shin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Shin Megami Tensei if...: Hazama Hen Shin Megami Tensei: 20XX Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Colosseum 20XX OmegaDevil Survivor 2 Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker ReaperShin Megami Tensei: Nine Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Soul Hackers 2 Shin Megami Tensei Pinball: Judgment Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner Kētai Akuma Densho VileShin Megami Tensei: J Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis YaksaDigital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
Alignment(s)	ChaosShin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse Light-ChaosShin Megami Tensei II Shin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Shin Megami Tensei: 20XX Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Colosseum 20XX Dark-NeutralShin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Arcana	DeathPersona 5 Persona 5 Royal JesterPersona 4 Golden MoonPersona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona 3 Reload Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Persona Mobile Online
Order(s)	Fury

Chernobog is a Demon in the Megami Tensei franchise.

Profile

Origin

According to Helmold of Bosau, a 12th century Catholic priest, the Polabian Slavs believed in a god named Chernobog (literally "black god") associated with misfortune. The reliability of Helmold's testimony is debatable.

Design

Chernobog's Shin Megami Tensei II and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner design was difficult to come up with due to no description other than the name's meaning of "black god". The design ultimately was based on the imagery of the Grim Reaper wielding a scythe, with some influence from the character Golden Bat.

Chernobog's Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers design is intended to have an "oriental" feel. He has a mushroom cap on his head because Chernobog sounds like Chernobyl, and the mushroom cap is also intended to look like an oriental hat. His face resembles a skull, and his sword's crossguard and pommel have a stained glass pattern.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Chernobog.

Compendium

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Compendium Entries
Shin Megami Tensei II (A-Mode DDS)	出身地：ロシア 夜と闇を支配し悪を司る悪神。スラヴの神話にて世界創造の起源に記述がみられる神。原始の世界で、光と昼を司る善神ベロボーグ「白い神」と対立する「黒い神」。 Translation:
Shin Megami Tensei IV	The god of night, evil, and death in Slavic lore. His name means "black god." Like many other gods of the dead, he is said to live below the earth. His counterpart is Belobog, the "white god." Despite being feared, he was also worshipped. The curse, "May the black god kill you," is still used in Ukraine.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	The god of night, evil, and death in Slavic lore. His name means "black god." Like many other gods of the dead, he is said to live below the earth. His counterpart is Belobog, the "white god." Despite being feared, he was also worshipped. The curse, "May the black god kill you," is still used in Ukraine.
Shin Megami Tensei V	The god of night, evil, and death in Slavic lore. His name means "black god." Like many other gods of the dead, he is said to live below the earth. His counterpart is Belobog, the "white god." Despite being feared, he was also worshiped. The curse, "May the black god end you," is still used in Ukraine to this day.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (Akuma Zensho; PSP)	出身地：ロシア スラブ神話に伝わる、夜と悪と死を司る神。名前の意味するところは「黒い神」である。 チェルノボグは、他の多くの死神と同様、地下に住んでいるとされる。悪しき力を持つ彼は畏怖の対象であるが、その力ゆえ崇拝される面もあった。ウクライナの人々の間には、「黒い神がおまえを殺すように」という言葉が今も残っている。 彼は光と善を司る「白い神」ベロボーグと対にされる。この２神の間に二元論を見出すことは容易である。 Translation: Place of origin: Russia
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (3DS)	The god of night, evil, and death in Slavic lore. His name means "black god." Like many other gods of the dead, he is said to live below the earth. His counterpart is Belobog, the "white god." Despite being feared, he was also worshipped. The curse, "May the black god kill you," is still used in Ukraine.
Soul Hackers 2	The god of night, evil, and death in Slavic lore. His name means "black god." Like many other gods of the dead, he is said to live below the earth. His counterpart is Belobog, the "white god." Despite being feared, he was also worshiped. The curse, "May the black god end you," is still used in Ukraine to this day.
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth. His name means "Black God." He is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog.
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth. His name means "Black God." He is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog, who is the avatar of light and day.
Persona 3	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth. His name means "Black God." He is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog.
Persona 3 FES
Persona 3 Portable
Persona 3 Reload	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth. His name means "Black God." He is the counterpart of the "White God" Belobog.
Persona 4 Golden	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth. His name means "Black God." He is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog.
Persona 5	A cursed god of death, evil, and the night in Slavic lore. His name means "Black God," and he is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog. Despite being feared, he was also worshipped.
Persona 5 Royal
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth, his name means "Black God". He is the counterpart of the "White God", Belobog.
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth	A cursed god of the darkness in Slavic myth, his name means "Black God." He is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog.
Persona 5 Tactica	A cursed god of death, evil, and the night in Slavic lore. His name means "Black God," and he is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog. Despite being feared, he was also worshipped.
Persona 5: The Phantom X	A cursed god of death, evil, and the night in Slavic lore. His name means "Black God," and he is the counterpart of the "White God," Belobog. Despite being feared, he was also worshipped.
Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book	白い神とあらそう　悪い　黒い神　世界をきらっていて　すべてのものを　ハカイしようと　している Translation:
DemiKids Light Version and Dark Version	A demon of the darkest nature who despises beauty and seeks to destroy it.
Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book	白い神とあらそう　悪い　黒い神　世界をきらっていて　すべてのものを　ハカイしようと　している Translation:
Devil Survivor 2	The god of night, evil, and death in Slavic lore. His name means "black god." Like many other gods of the dead, he is said to live below the earth. His counterpart is Belobog, the "white god." Despite being feared, he was also worshipped. The curse, "May the black god kill you," is still used in Ukraine.
Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
Kētai Akuma Densho	スラヴの創造神話に登場する、闇と夜の「黒い神」。光と昼の「白い神」に対抗する。 出身地：スラヴ スラヴ民族の間に伝えられる、世界の創造神話の起源に登場する神。闇と夜を司る「黒い神」と呼ばれており、光と昼を司り、「白い神」と呼ばれるベロボーグと対極に位置するとされている。この白と黒の二人の神は「善の神」と「悪の神」を意味しており、白い神は善行を行い、黒い神であるチェルノボグは悪行を行うと言われる。チェルノボグは人に不幸をもたらすというその能力ゆえ、しばしばその名を人に呪いをかける際に唱えられもする。 Translation:
Kaneko Kazuma Dennō Akuma Zukan	スラヴに伝わる黒い神。白い神（ベロボーグ）と対になって、スラヴの創世神話に登場する。両者は光と昼の神、闇と夜の神であり、その関係は善と悪として相対立しあう。白と黒の神の伝承はスラヴ諸国がキリスト教に改宗したあとも生き残り、現在でもウクライナ地方には「黒い神に殺られてしまえ！」という表現が残っているという。 Translation: The Slavic Black God. He appears in the Slavic creation myth as the counterpart to the White God (Belobog). The two are the god of light and day, and the god of darkness and night, and their relationship is that of good and evil, standing in opposition to one another. The legend of the white and black gods survived even after various Slavic countries converted to Christianity, and even today the expression "May the Black God kill you!" still remains in the Ukraine.

Nomenclature

Reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *Čьrnobogъ. By surface analysis, from Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ ("black") + *-o- (interfix used in compound words) + *bogъ ("god").

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Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Chernobog
	DoomborgDemiKids Light Version and Dark Version
Japanese	チェルノボグ Cherunobogu	Chernobog
	チェルノボーグDevil Children Light Book and Dark Book Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book Cherunobōgu	Chernobog
Simplified Chinese	切尔诺伯格 Qiè'ěrnuòbógé	Chernobog
Traditional Chinese	切爾諾伯格 Qiè'ěrnuòbógé	Chernobog
French	Tchernobog
German	Chernobog
Italian	Chernobog
Korean	체르노보그 Chereunobogeu	Chernobog
	첼노보그Shin Megami Tensei IV Persona 4 Golden Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2 Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker Chellobogeu	Chernobog
Polish	Czarnobóg
Brazilian Portuguese	Chernobog
Russian	Чернобог Chernobog
Peninsular Spanish	Chernobog
Turkish	ÇernobogShin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
	ChernobogPersona 3 Reload

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	The Black AvengerPersona 5 Royal
Japanese	黒の報復人Persona 5 Royal Kuro no Hōfukubito	Black Retaliator
Simplified Chinese	漆黑的复仇者Persona 5 Royal Qīhēi de Fùchóuzhě	Pitch-black Avenger
Traditional Chinese	漆黑的復仇者Persona 5 Royal Qīhēi de Fùchóuzhě	Pitch-black Avenger
French	Le vengeur noirPersona 5 Royal	The Black Avengermasculine form
German	Der schwarze RächerPersona 5 Royal	The Black Avengermasculine form
Italian	Vendicatore neroPersona 5 Royal	Black Avengermasculine form
Korean	검은 복수자復讐者Persona 5 Royal Geomeun Boksuja	Black Avenger
Peninsular Spanish	El vengador negroPersona 5 Royal	The Black Avengermasculine form

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