{"id":98835,"date":"2019-08-20T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=123458"},"modified":"2019-08-20T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:00:46","slug":"new-smite-goddess-persephone-joins-the-battleground-on-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/new-smite-goddess-persephone-joins-the-battleground-on-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"New Smite Goddess Persephone Joins the Battleground on Xbox One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, claims her throne in the exciting new Smite<\/strong><\/em><\/a> update available now on Xbox One!<\/p>\n

As the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Persephone\u2019s fate was often decided by others. So when she saw her chance to act alone, Persephone took it. Hades offered Persephone a not-so-simple choice: a seed of a pomegranate, grown in the underworld.<\/p>\n

Persephone was clever. She understood what was being offered. Those who eat the food of the underworld are bound to it and must return. So, for the first time, Persephone took control of her life \u2014 and her throne in the underworld.<\/p>\n

Persephone is Queen of the Underworld, but really only in title. She doesn\u2019t aspire to the same royal wants of someone like Hera, Zeus, or Olorun. Instead, Persephone rules the Underworld like she would tend to a garden, cultivating beauty. Her desire to see the beauty in death is detailed through her abilities.<\/p>\n

Whether it be her reawakened skeletal warriors or her ghastly bloomed flowers, Persephone\u2019s kit demonstrates the concept of life and death, combined. As a mage, Persephone\u2019s gameplay primarily focuses on long range magical damage. But Persephone is unlike any other mage in Smite<\/em>; she cultivates the Battleground with deployable skull plants, then triggers them to bloom, attack, and trap her foes. For this God, a bountiful harvest is full of gold and kills.<\/p>\n

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Just like our community, we\u2019re thrilled to see Persephone in game. But we\u2019re even more thrilled to conclude a four-month-long event in this update: The Battle for Olympus has come to an end! We\u2019re celebrating with the amazing new Tier 5 Winds of Change Kukulkan skin, which transforms between three forms as you play. Wield tornadoes with butterflies as a force of life, cast dark magic with the power of the void, or soar resplendently as an agent of the heavens \u2014 the choice is yours! Don\u2019t miss out on this incredible skin you have to see to believe.<\/p>\n

As always, there\u2019s a ton more great content in this new update. Whether you\u2019re looking forward to celebrating Persephone\u2019s homecoming, rocking the new Tier 5 skin, or just pwning noobs in the Arena, we can\u2019t wait to see you in the Battleground of the Gods!<\/p>\n

Smite<\/strong><\/a> is available now as a free-to-play game on Xbox One. Download it today from the Microsoft Store<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, claims her throne in the exciting new Smite update available now on Xbox One! As the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Persephone\u2019s fate was often decided by others. So when she saw her chance to act alone, Persephone took it. Hades offered Persephone a not-so-simple choice: a seed of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}