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Death Prophet

#62

21 + 2.9

17 + 2

24 + 3

Grants the following bonuses per level:
	+63.8HP and +0.29HP regeneration
	+0.33 armor and 2 attack speed
	+36MP and +0.15MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance
	+3.56 Main Attack Damage

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582 +2.35

363 +1.7

3.83 Armor (715.74 EHP)

27.4% Magic Resist (801.65 EHP)

49 ‒ 59 ▶️ Damage (54.9 Avg)

1000 Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

600 Attack Range (800)

100 (117) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.5 + 0.51 Animation

290 / 320 ▶️ Move Speed

0.8 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.131s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Ethereal Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_death_prophet

2011-12-08 Released

2004-02-03 (0.60)

Competitive Span 2011-12-16 — 2015-12-16 2015-12-20 — Present

Version Control This article is mostly accurate for 7.38, the last version this hero was changed in. New interactions that emerged in following patches may have not yet been accounted for.

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Summons an army of ghosts to attack.
Denied her own death time and again, Krobelus returns from the grave with skills acquired from the beyond. Gathering a Crypt Swarm, she sends forth a flock of winged beast to harass the living. A pall of Silence falls over the land, stifling any objection as she Siphons multiple enemies dry simultaneously. Mortals beware. As she performs an Exorcism, unleashing the banshee remnants of her previous lives, demolishing enemies and their defenses alive, turning the battlefield into her own haunted ground.
Roles:	Carry Pusher Nuker Disabler
Adjectives	Arachnophobic, Female, Flying, Undead, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Facets

Spirit Collector

Heroes' death empower the Exorcism spirits.

Grants a charge per enemy hero death, including Death Prophet herself, and replaces regular Exorcism spirits with the current collected dead souls.

If an enemy hero is killed while Exorcism is active, Spirit Collector will immediately replace a regular Exorcism spirit whenever possible.

The enemy hero killed is granted as a charge for the next Exorcism cast as well.

Mourning Ritual

Grants damage reduction over incoming damage instance taken for a period of time.

Krobelus has a delayed reaction to the previous incoming damage.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

The Death Prophet commands an Exorcism spirit to haunt the enemy unit she attacks.

Unleashes evil spirit of Exorcism's corresponding level per enemy unit affected.

Summons an exorcised banshee of its corresponding level per affected enemy unit.

Creates an Exorcism spirit of its corresponding level, haunting the affected siphoned enemy.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Applies a caster-fear if the affected enemy target is siphoned for a certain amount of time consecutively.

Increases max charges.

Talents

+8 Exorcism Spirits	25	-22s Spirit Siphon Restore Time
+25 Spirit Siphon Damage/Heal	20	+400 Health
-2.5s Crypt Swarm Cooldown	15	+75 Silence Radius
+12% Magic Resist	10	+40 Attack Speed
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Bio

What I've seen goes far beyond death.

▶️  Krobelus, the Death Prophet

Aliases:

DP, Krobelus

Lore:

Krobelus was a Death Prophet—which is one way of saying she told fortunes for the wealthiest of those who wished to look beyond the veil. But after years of inquiring on behalf of others, she began to seek clues on her own fate. When death refused to yield its secrets, she tried to buy them with her life. But the ultimate price proved insufficient.

Death disgorged her again and again, always holding back its deepest mysteries. Her jealousy grew. Others could die for eternity—why not she? Why must she alone be cast back on the shores of life with such tiresome regularity? Why was she not worthy of the one thing all other living creatures took for granted? Still, she would not be discouraged.

Each time she returned from the grave, she brought a bit of death back with her. Wraiths followed her like fragments of her shattered soul; her blood grew thin and ectoplasmic; the feasting creatures of twilight took her for their kin.. She gave a little of her life with every demise, and it began to seem as if her end was in sight. With her dedication to death redoubled, and no client other than herself, Krobelus threw herself ever more fervently into death's abyss, intent on fulfilling the one prophecy that eluded her: That someday the Death Prophet would return from death no more.

Voice:

Ellen McLain (Responses)

Innate

Witchcraft

Witchcraft

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants self bonus movement speed and cooldown reduction per hero level.

Move Speed Bonus per Level: 0.5%

Cooldown Reduction per Level: 0.75%

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
The Death Prophet commands an Exorcism spirit to haunt the enemy unit she attacks.

Spirits per Attack: ( 1)

This ability levels up with Death Prophet.

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• All bonus values of this sources stack additively per level.

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  Spawns an Exorcism spirit of its corresponding level per successful attack or instant attack on the affected enemy unit(s).
  • Procs on the following units:
    • Buildings
  • Does not procs on the following units:
    • Ally units.
    • Ward-type units.

Interactions: Self-Illusions

The bonus movement speed component is functional.

Illusions do not create Exorcism spirits on attack.

Interactions: Ability Draft

The passive Exorcism spirit spawn per attack works for the drafting hero's attacks.
Other ability notes apply.

modifier_death_prophet_witchcraft

Hidden Modifier

• Grants the following bonuses to self per level:

L	1	6	12	18	25	30
	0.5%	3%	6%	9%	12.5%	25%
		11%	18%	25%	28.5%	41%
	0.75%	4.5%	9%	13.5%	18.75%	37.5%

Mourning Ritual

  Mourning Ritual

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants damage reduction over incoming damage instance taken for a period of time.

Damage Reduction: 15%/25%/35%/45%

Damage Timer: 5

Krobelus has a delayed reaction to the previous incoming damage.

Damage as Current Health Loss per Second: 3%/5%/7%/9%

Damage Delay Duration: 5

This ability levels up with Exorcism.

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• Selecting the    facet unlocks this ability.

• The delayed damage has the following properties:
  • Utilizes the setting health mechanic and applies 3%/5%/7%/9% of the previously accumulative damage as lethal current health cost per second over the damage delay buff duration.
  • Has the lowest priority among all damage negation sources.
    • Does not reduce damage when other damage negation sources are active.

modifier_death_prophet_mourning_ritual

Hidden Modifier

Hero Model

Hero Model

Ability

Passive / Channeling

Affects

Self

Krobelus' hero model has the following hidden innate abilities.

She may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling.

The Death Prophet is considered a ground unit, despite its hero model showing otherwise.

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Hidden Innate Abilities

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Abilities

Crypt Swarm

Q

R

Crypt Swarm

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Point / Unit

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Magical / Spell / Physical

Sends a swarm of winged beasts to savage enemy units in front of Death Prophet.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.5

Cast Range: 900

First Radius: 110

Travel Distance: 900

End Radius: 300

Damage: 85/165/245/325

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Unleashes evil spirit of Exorcism's corresponding level per enemy unit affected.

Spirits per Unit Hit: ( 1)

9/8/7/6 ( 6.5/5.5/4.5/3.5)

80/90/100/110

Krobelus' many trips to the grave gather a flock of the damned.

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• Has the following targeting functionalities:
  • 
    • Both unit-targeting and point-targeting considers ground-targeting the ability.
    • Hence, it neither procs Spell Block nor procs Spell Reflection sources.

• 
  • Affects enemy units up to 1200 range away with the travel distance and end radius.
    • The ability's starts at Krobelus' current position , with the first radius extending to point .
      • The total ability area-of-effect is cone-shaped.
      • OP = 110
      • PQ = 900
    • Circle is the end radius.
  • 
    • The wave travels at 1100-speed, reaching max distance in 1.22 seconds.

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  Adds a passive component to Crypt Swarm.
  • Spawns an Exorcism spirit of its corresponding level per affected enemy unit, prioritizing these affected enemy units upon the wave impact.
  • Does not spawn spirits if the affected enemy unit dies from the magical spell damage.

Interactions: Spell Steal

Requires acquiring Exorcism for its corresponding component to work.

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. The magical spell damage.
  2. Spawns an Exorcism spirit per affected enemy unit.

Silence

W

E

Silence

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Area

Affects

Enemy Units

Damage

Spell / Physical

Fires a projectile that silences enemy units within a radius, preventing them from casting spells.

Cast Animation: 0.2 + 0.9

Cast Range:  900

Radius: 450 ( 525)

Damage per Instance: 0

Silence Duration: 3.5/4/4.5/5

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Summons an exorcised banshee of its corresponding level per affected enemy unit.

Spirits per Unit Hit: ( 1)

15/14/13/12

80/90/100/110

Peering into the veil of her opponent's demise, Krobelus sees a silent future.

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  • Can affect enemy units at max 1350 ( 1425)-distance away with the cast range and effect radius.

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  • The silence component applies a 0-damage instance per server tick in the combat log.

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  Spawns an Exorcism spirit of its corresponding level per affected enemy unit, prioritizing these affected enemy units.

modifier_death_prophet_silence

Silenced

modifier_deathprophet_silence_debuff

Hidden modifier

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. Launches a projectile to the area-targeted location.
     • Has 1200- projectile speed.
  2. Applies the corresponding debuff.
     • death_prophet_silence
     • The Supress deathprophet_silence_debuff
  3. Spawns an Exorcism spirit per affected enemy unit.

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  • The silence component applies a 0-damage per 0-second intervals.
    • However, the min damage intervals cannot be lesser than a server tick. Hence, the ability applies a damage instance in 0.033-second intervals in the combat log.
      • For the Dummy Unit, the ability applies two 0-damage instance per server tick.

Spirit Siphon

E

C

Spirit Siphon

▶️

Ability

Unit

Affects

Enemy Units / Self

Damage

Spell / Magical / Spell / Physical

Creates a spirit link between Death Prophet and an enemy unit, draining health from the enemy.

Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0

Cast Range:  500

Link Break Distance: 750

Damage per Second: 25/50/75/100 ( 50/75/100/125)

Self Heal per Second: 25/50/75/100 ( 50/75/100/125)

Drain Duration: 6

N^th Second to Fear: ( 3)

Fear Duration: ( 1)

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Creates an Exorcism spirit of its corresponding level, haunting the affected siphoned enemy.

Spirits per Cast: ( 1)

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Applies a caster-fear if the affected enemy target is siphoned for a certain amount of time consecutively.

Increases max charges.

Cannot be cast on already affected enemy units with the debuff.

Downtime: 6

40 ( 18)

1/2/3/4 ( 2/3/4/5)

0

80

Krobelus willingly shows others the path she alone cannot follow.

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  • Leveling the ability up grants 1 charge immediately.
  • SHARD NOTES
    Acquiring the ability upgrade grants the additional charge immediately.

• The ability has three main components:
  • 
    • death_prophet_spirit_siphon_slow
      • Deals 6.25/12.5/18.75/25 ( 12.5/18.75/25/31.25) physical spell damage in 0.25-second intervals, starting 0.25 upon debuff applifcation.
        • SCEPTER NOTES
          Spawns an Exorcism spirit of its corresponding level per ability cast, prioritizing the unit-targeted enemy units.
        • TALENT NOTES
          The damage and heal increasing talent does not update the current instance.
      • Does not grant vision.
      • The link does not break when the affected enemy unit is affected by the following sources:
        • The Fog of War.
        • Invisible sources.
      • 
        • The ability effects visually draws to the location where the affected enemy unit was under vision previously.
      • Affects the following units:
        • Roshan
        • The Tormentor.
    • SHARD NOTES
      
      • Applies caster-fear on the affected enemy unit with the following properties:
        • 
          • Procs at the 3rd second of the link's duration, sourced to the spirit_siphon_buff applied on Death Prophet upon ability cast.
          • Does not apply the fear component while the enemy is affected by the following source:
            • Hidden sources.
            • Invulnerable sources.
      • death_prophet_spirit_siphon_fear
        • The fear component can only affect the same enemy unit once per cast.
  • 
    • Self- heals for the full value regardless of the damage instance value, in the same damage intervals, and does not continue to heal at full health.
    • death_prophet_spirit_siphon
      • Casting the ability on another valid enemy unit, or on the same enemy, applies an independent buff on Death Prophet, with an independent ability intervals and duration.
  • 
    • The link breaks in the following conditions:
      • EXPR
        AffectedEnemyPosition - DeathProphetPosition > 750 , LinkBreak
      • Upon either the affected enemy's or Death Prophet's death.

Interactions: Spell Block

Nullifies the ability.

Interactions: Spell Reflection

Requires the Spell Reflection source to have Exorcism to spawn the spirit.

Interactions: Morph

Grants all charges immediately upon acquiring the ability.
Subsequent ability acquisition only grants the remaining charges.

Interactions: Spell Steal

Grants all charges immediately upon acquiring the ability.
Subsequent ability acquisition only grants the remaining charges.

Interactions: Spell Duplication

Can be reapplied on the primary target, when cast on the secondary target while the primary target is already affected by Spirit Siphon.

modifier_death_prophet_spirit_siphon

Spirit Siphon

modifier_death_prophet_spirit_siphon_buff

Siphoned Armor: Armor increased from siphoning an enemy.

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Spirit Siphon

modifier_death_prophet_spirit_siphon_fear

Hidden modifier

• +
  • Deals 150/300/450/600 ( 300/450/600/750) damage (before reductions) and self- heals for the entire link duration.

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  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. The physical spell damage instance.
    2. The self- heal instance.

Exorcism

R

X

Exorcism

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No / Passive

Affects

Enemy Units / Self

Damage

Spell / Physical

Unleashes spirits to drain the life of nearby enemy units and buildings. Grants bonus movement speed while active.

At the end of the exorcism, all spirits return and heals Death Prophet for a portion of the damage dealt at the end of the duration.

Cast Animation: 0.5 + 0.77

Number of Spirits: 10/17/24 ( 18/25/32)

Self Move Speed Bonus: 8%/12%/16%

Exorcism Duration: 40

While active, these spirits roam around uncontrollably and do not interact with any abilities.

Each spirit automatically attacks a nearby enemy unit within the radius, returns to Death Prophet, then roams around searching for its next target.

Acquisition Radius: 700

Max Radius: 1200

Spirits Move Speed: 525

Min Damage: 62

Max Damage: 67

Damage to Heal Factor: 0.25

The banshees' damage is less effective on buildings.

Damage Factor: 0.5

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
These Exorcism spirits released via Death Prophet's attacks or abilities slow the movement speed of the affected target and deals additional damage compared to its active cast.

Damage Factor: ( 1.5)

Move Speed Slow: ( 100%)

Slow Duration: ( 0.3)

Max Duration: ( 20)

150

200/300/400

Over time, the banshee remnants of her previous lives return to haunt the present.

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Spirit Collector

Heroes' death empower the Exorcism spirits.

Grants a charge per enemy hero death, including Death Prophet herself, and replaces regular Exorcism spirits with the current collected dead souls.

Hero Death Radius: Global
Charge per Hero Death: 1
Min Damage: 88/96/104
Max Damage: 94/102/110

If an enemy hero is killed while Exorcism is active, Spirit Collector will immediately replace a regular Exorcism spirit whenever possible.

The enemy hero killed is granted as a charge for the next Exorcism cast as well.

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  • Spawns each spirit in 0.35-second intervals.
    • The first spirit spawns immediately upon cast, subsequent spirits are released within 3.15/5.6/8.05 ( 5.95/8.4/10.85) seconds.
  • 
    • Spirits exceeding < 2000-radius of Krobelus disappear, and respawns from her in the same intervals.
    • Recasting the ability causes the previous cast to end, the spirits returns to Krobelus, and heals her.
  • Have the following unit properties:
    • Uncontrollable.
    • Neither intercepts not interacts with any abilities.
    • Does not block neutral creep camps.
    • Can only turn by moving in a ≈150-radius arc.
  • 
    • Roam around and automatically attack nearby enemy units within its acqusition radius, centered around Krobelus, with the following attack priority sequence:
      • The Current Attacked Enemy Unit Nearest Enemy Unit Acquisition Radius
    • Upon attacking a valid enemy unit, the spirit does not change its target except for the following conditions:
      • The Current Attacked Enemy Unit
      • Upon the targeted enemy unit's death.
      • The enemy unit is < 1900-distance from Death Prophet.
  • 
    • The ongoing chase cannot be canceled, until the spirit reaches its targeted enemy unit.
    • Deals physical spell damage on the targeted valid enemy unit upon reaching them.
    • After dealing damage, the spirits need to return to Death Prophet before being able to attack again.
  • 
    • Collectively heals Death Prophet for the full value regardless of damage instance value, upon returning once the ability duration expires.
    • EXPR
      HealMeanValue = (62 + 67) / 2 × HealFactor × 10/17/24 OR 18/25/32

• Does not affect the following units:
  • Invisible units.
  • Hit count ward-type units.
  • Undying Zombie.
  • Neither damages attack immune nor invulnerable units, but will continue to deal damage to the target if it turns invulnerable or attack immune after being acquired as a target.

• Affects the following units:
  • Outposts, despite not being attackable.
  • Couriers have the lowest target priority.

• FACET NOTES
  Spirit Collector has the following properties:
  • Considers the Spirit Bear as heroes; clones, illusions and other creep-heroes as creeps.
  • death_prophet_spirit_collector
    • There is no charge limit and utilizes all charges upon ability cast.
    • Spawns the collected spirits along with regular spirits upon ability cast.
      • 
        • Utilizes the hero model as the Exorcism spirit per enemy hero's death, with the same Exorcism spirit properties.
      • death_prophet_exorcism has precedence over Spirit Collector and does not grant charges upon Krobelus' death while Exorcism is active.
    • SCEPTER NOTES
      The ability upgrade does not consume the Spirit Collector charges.

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• SCEPTER NOTES
  The passive Exorcism spirit spawn only work specifically with the following abilities:
  • Crypt Swarm
  • Silence
  • Spirit Siphon
  • Has the same Exorcism spirit properties, and has a max 20-second target chase duration.
    • Does not increase the physical spell damage of an active cast.

Interactions: Break Sources

Disables the Spirit Collector facet.

Interactions: Ability Draft

The Exorcism passive spirit spawn component only work with the Death Prophet-based abilities.

modifier_death_prophet_exorcism

Exorcism

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Hidden modifier

modifier_death_prophet_scepter

Hidden modifier

modifier_death_prophet_spirit_collector (x)

Spirit Collector: Hero spirits trapped, ready to be released when Exorcism is cast.

modifier_death_prophet_slow

Hidden modifier

• Has the following heal per spirit values:
  • x̄ Regular = 16.125
  • x̄ Passive = 24.1875
  • x̄ SpiritCollector = 22.75/24.75/26.75

Recent Matches

Main Article: Death Prophet/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Apr 06, 2025 - 14:05 SGT	Tier 3		EPL World SEA S4			1 : 0
Apr 05, 2025 - 14:40 MSK	Tier 4		Cyber Empire			1 : 0
Apr 03, 2025 - 12:00 EDT	Qualifier		DreamLeague S26 NA CQ			1 : 0
Apr 03, 2025 - 17:00 SGT	Tier 3		EPL World SEA S4			1 : 0
Apr 02, 2025 - 16:55 AST	Qualifier		DreamLeague S26 MESWA CQ			0 : 1

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Death Prophet no longer has Intelligence as a primary attribute and is now a Universal hero.
• Decreased base attack damage from 25‒35 to 22‒32.
• Increased base agility from 16 to 17.
• Witchcraft
  • Reduced movement speed bonus per level from 0.75% to 0.5%.
  • Increased cooldown reduction from per level 0.5% to 0.75%.
• REMOVED the Silence Suppress facet.
• Exorcism Spirit Collector
  • Increased hero spirit damage from 84‒90/92‒98/101‒106 to 88‒94/106‒112/124‒130.
  • If any hero is killed while Exorcism is active, Spirit Collector will immediately replace a regular Exorcism spirit if possible and is granted as a charge for the next cast as well.

7.37d
(2024-10-01)

• Increased base attack damage from 23‒33 to 25‒35.
• Increased Exorcism number of spirits from 8/16/24 to 10/17/24.

7.37c
(2024-08-28)

• Reduced Mourning Ritual incoming damage reduction from 20%/30%/40%/50% to 15%/25%/35%/45%.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Death Prophet's Relics	Voice Lines
Crypt Swarm Kills Multi-Hero Silences Spirit Siphon Kills Exorcism Kills During Cyclone Spirit Siphon Health Drained Exorcism Building Kills Slow Duration Eul's Leading To Kills Silences Leading To Kills Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Oh ah ha ha ha ha ha ho ho haa! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! ▶️ Well done, my beauties!
	Silver	▶️ Not meant to be. ▶️ Poor dear.
	Gold	▶️ How disappointing. ▶️ Come back to me! Come back to me!
	Platinum	▶️ It did not take a prophet to see that coming.
	Master	▶️ I died a little just now.
	Grandmaster	▶️ No no. Tsk tsk tsk.

Trivia

• At some point, she, along with Io and Silencer, had her costume and ability color palettes changed. Before, Death Prophet's garments and ability icons were more purple in color.
• The icon for her innate ability, Witchcraft, shows a pentacle, a symbol that became associated with magic in the Middle Ages and was traditionally used in witchcraft.

• Warcraft 3 similarities:
  • Death Prophet uses the model of the Banshee, an Undead caster unit.
  • Crypt Swarm's original iteration was identical to the Dreadlord's Carrion Swarm.
    • In DotA, the ability was named Carrion Swarm as well.
  • Silence's original iteration was identical to the Dark Ranger's Silence.
  • Spirit Siphon is inspired by the Dark Ranger's Life Drain.
  • Exorcism's original iteration was identical to the Crypt Lord's Locust Swarm.
    • Exorcism uses the model of the Banshee's Possession projectile, which is a green ghost.

Gallery

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  Model

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  Splash artwork

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  The International 2014 artwork

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  Concept art

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  Concept art

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead