Persona 2:
Batsu
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Hidden Personae
Hidden personae fall into four main groups: those triggered by dialogue events, those that are rare mutations from other personae, those that require a special "Material Card" for summoning, and Fools.| Dialogue Triggers |
Rare Mutations |
Cards from Rare Demons |
Cards as Treasure |
Cards
as Casino Prizes |
Cards as Return Items |
Fools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastur Junnosuke Kuroda Lugh Maia Custom Maihime Amano Tatsunoshin Suou
|
Michael Mot Pallas Athena Shokuin |
Alice Azazel Gaia Izanami Nata Odin Rangda Shaka Vairocana |
Alfred Artemis Astria Gabriel Hyperion Il-Dana Iris Prometheus Skuld Suzaku |
Bishamonten Brahma Charon Kali Lakshmi Lucifer Satan |
Fuuma Kotarou Nannar Njord Siva Vishnu |
Fuuma Kotaru Junnosuke Kuroda Sarutobi Sasuke Tenjiku Tokubei Tobi Katou |
The most complicated to acquire are the three ancestral personae. Getting them involves a subquest that spans much of the length of the game, with steps that are very easy to miss. You have to do the whole thing to get all three ancestors on your team, but if you skip Step 1 you can still get Suou and Aimano, and if you skip Step 4 you can still get Kuroda and Suou. Here's how the whole thing goes:
- Donate 10,000 Yen to the Kuroda shrine on the Mt. Mifune trail.
This step is necessary only to get Kuroda.
- After getting either Nate or Ellen in your party, visit Kismet Publishing and talk to Mizuno in her office. When she asks you a question, tell her "No."
- After completing the Torifune dungeon, go back to Mizuno's office and talk to Jun's father Kashihara. He'll tell you a rumor about the origins of the New World Order in feudal Japan. Spread the rumor.
- Find Setsu Nishitani for the Shiraishi lady. Setsu is the old woman at the Araya Shrine. After getting your reward, talk to Setsu again, and she'll tell you a rumor about the girlfriend of the guy in Kashihara's rumor. Spread the rumor. This step is necessary only to get Aimano.
- In Sumaru Castle, Amano's mummy is in the Room of Princess on the 3rd floor. Talk to her.
- Suou's mummy is in the Room of Warrior on the 7th floor, and if you donated to Kuroda's shrine earlier on, his ghost will also be hanging around. Talk to them.
- Summon your personae in the Velvet Room. Phew!
| Persona |
Type |
Dialogue Triggers |
Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maia Custom | Level 31 Moon |
After defeating Joker-Ulala at GOLD Gym, Maya
must defend Ulala when her ex-boyfriend calls her a cruel person. The
correct dialogue choice is "Shut up! You're wrong about her!" Nothing will happen immediately, but this choice gives Maia the potential to eventually mutate into Maia Custom by ending battles with fusion spells. |
none |
| Maihime Amano | Level 54 Moon | Complete the steps of the ancestral
personae subquest above, including the rumor from the old lady at Araya
Shrine. |
216 Moon |
| Junnosuke Kuroda | Level 55 Fool |
Complete the steps of the ancestral
personae subquest above, including filling the shrine on the Mt. Mifune
trail. Acquire Fool cards as detailed below. |
4 Fool |
| Tatsunoshin Suou | Level 58 Sun | Complete the steps of the ancestral personae subquest above, skipping Kuroda's shrine and the old lady's rumor if you wish. | 174 Sun |
| Hastur | Level 62 Tower | In 2x Slash there's a teenaged girl who tells
your fortune based on your birth month. The fortunes are meaningless,
but if you tell her that you were born in the month of
"HASTURCOMEFORTH," her demeanor changes completely and she starts
muttering obscure threats. A while later, visit Kismet Publishing and check Maya's desk. She'll have a package waiting: the material card "King in Yellow," which can be used to summon Hastur. |
258 Tower |
| Lugh | Level 72 Emperor | After summoning Il-Dana with his material card, forge a contract with the demon
Mananan in Torifune, Sumaru Castle, or
the 7th area of the Bomb Shelter. Ask Mananan for information until he
tells you that the persona Il-Dana is really Lugh in disguise. Il-Dana
can then mutate into Lugh. |
none |
Normally, when a persona gains the "modification ability" mutation by using a fusion spell as the final move in combat, it will mutate into a Minor Arcana card according to its level. However, there are four persona which have a small (12.5%) chance of mutating into another form unique to them. But this chance can be increased to 100% by having another another persona of similar level mutate into the common Minor Arcana mutation first - that way, since you can't have two of the same persona at once, you're certain to get the rarer form. As always when mutating, you should also have a Poltergeist summoned. Otherwise, there is a small chance that a Poltergeist will be the result of any mutation.
The nicest thing about the rare mutations is that, once you have one, you can summon it again at any time for ordinary tarot cards - even after restarting the game for a second time.
| Persona |
Type |
Mutates From |
Common Mutation |
Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mot | Level 74 Death | Seth | Dagda | 296 Death |
| Pallas Athena | Level 74 Justice | Scathach |
Sarasvati | 222 Justice |
| Michael | Level 83 Judgement | Amurdad | Futsu no Mitama | 332 Judgement |
| Shokuin | Level 88 World | Wong Long | Dagda | 352 World |
To summon these personae you must first encounter a demon of their type and defeat it in battle to win its material card. The encounter rate for these demons is extremely low, and it can take many hours of pacing a dungeon hallway to get them to appear. One trick to make this go faster is to cast the spell Estoma before you go hunting. This will make lower-level enemies avoid you, so the only thing you will encounter is the higher-level rare demon (this trick only works if your highest-level character is of a lower level than the demon you want to meet). You can combine the "Devil's Capote" item with the Estoma spell to speed the process still more.
The material cards for the rare demon personae appear only once in the game, so if you return them, they're gone for good.
| Persona |
Type |
Where to find them |
Material Card | Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaka | Level 29 Hierophant | Kasugayama High Bomb Shelter Area 2, accessible any time after | "Yuiga Dokuson" | 87 |
| Nata | Level 38 Justice | Aoba
Park (either visit) |
"Paopei" | 114 |
| Izanami | Level 51 Priestess | Kasugayama High Bomb Shelter Area 5, accessible any time after | "Path to Hades" |
153 |
| Odin | Level 65 Emperor | Kasugayama High Bomb Shelter Area 6, accessible any time after | "Runic Monument" | 195 |
| Rangda | Level 69 Magician | Sumaru Castle, more likely to appear on higher floors | "Dancing Mask" | 276 |
| Level 73 Sun | Kasugayama
High Bomb Shelter Area 7 (accessible after |
"1000 Lotus Petals" |
219 |
|
| Level 78 Empress | The "World of Conviction" in Monado Mandala. |
"Cradle of Creation" |
234 |
|
| Alice | Level 80 Lovers | Kasugayama High Bomb Shelter Area 7 (accessible after | "Champion" |
320 |
| Level 90 Hanged Man |
Final area of the EX-Dungeon, which can't be
accessed until you complete the game twice. This demon is a little different from the others. You win Azazel's card not by defeating him, but by encountering him three times, each time with a different Hanged Man persona equipped: Shax, Barbatos, and Adramelech. Each of these personae will initiate a persona talk with Azazel, and after the third of these encounters he willingly gives you his material card. |
"Black Goat" |
360 |
Cards from Treasure Chests
These ones are pretty easy: just be sure to check all the crannies of each dungeon, and you'll pick them all up in the course of a game. The only problem is that if you miss one, you can't go back. And, as with the rare demons, these personae are gone for good if you ever return them.
| Persona |
Type |
Where to find them |
Material Card | Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iris |
Level 18 Star |
GOLD Gym |
"Rainbow Ribbon" |
|
| Il-Dana |
Level 46 Sun |
"Dul-Dauna's Oar" | 138 Sun |
|
| Prometheus |
Level 61 Hanged Man |
Mount Iwato | "Bronze Ring" | 244 Hanged Man |
| Level 62 Star | Mount Iwato |
Ortyx |
248 Star |
|
| Artemis |
Level 63 Moon |
Mount Iwato | "Silver Bow" |
252 Moon |
| Hyperion | Level 63 Justice | Mount Iwato | "Ancient Sun" |
189 Justice |
| Suzaku | Level 63 Temperance | Floor B6 of the Ameno Torifune | "Scarlet Wings" |
252 Temperance |
| Skuld |
Level 66 Fortune |
Floor B6 of the Ameno Torifune |
"Urdrbrunn" | 264 Fortune |
| Alfred | Level 75 Hierophant | area 2-C of the EX-Dungeon | "Amber Glasses" |
225 Hierophant |
| Gabriel |
Level 76 Judgement | area 2-A of the EX-Dungeon | "Lily" |
304 Judgement |
Cards as Return Items
These material cards are gained by first summoning an ordinary persona, levelling that persona up to rank 8, and then returning it to the Velvet Room: the return item will be the material card needed to summon a new persona.
| Persona |
Type |
Who to return for the card |
Material Card | Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Njord |
Level 38 World |
Rank 8 Gullinbursti |
"Naotun" |
152 World |
| Fuuma Kotarou | Level 65 Fool | Rank 8 Tobi Katou. See also the Fool section. |
"Book of the Fuuma" | 5 Fool |
| Nannar | Level 73 Moon |
Rank 8 Tsukuyomi |
"Moon of Ullr" |
292 Moon |
| Siva | Level 85 Chariot |
Rank 8 Skanda | "Maximum Tempest" |
340 Chariot |
| Vishnu | Level 86 Emperor | Rank 8 Lakshmi | "Avatarah" |
258 Emperor |
Cards as Casino Prizes
These cards are there to be bought at the prize desk of the Mu Continent casino. The only trouble is they cost a fortune - the cheapest of them, at 10,000 casino chips, costs the equivalent of a million Yen, while the most expensive will run you a cool five million. But by scrimping on equipment, you'll probably be able to afford the cards by the time you're of high enough level to use them. When these personae are returned in the Velvet Room, their cards are restocked in the casino, so you could theoretically summon them more than once in the same game.
| Persona |
Type |
Price in casino coins |
Material Card | Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charon |
Level 47 Death |
10,000 |
"Styx" | 188 Death |
| Bishamonten |
Level 59 Justice |
15,000 |
"Chess Piece" |
177 Justice |
| Kali |
Level 61 Empress |
15,000 |
"Necklace of Heads" |
183 Empress |
| Lakshmi |
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| Brahma |
"Eye Patch" |
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| Satan |
Judgement |
50,000 | ||
| Lucifer |
Devil |
50,000 |
Fools
Fool tarots are some of the rarest cards in the game. One way to gain them is to complete all the map-making tasks for Salam: he will give you 1, 2, and 3 fool cards for mapping the last three dungeons, so you will end the game with 6 Fool cards gained relatively painlessly. But this is not enough to summon all the Fool personas: if you want data on everybody, you'll need to get 15 cards. And that means a lot of work and luck.
Here's how it goes: you must have a contact conversation in which you get yellow reactions alternating with red reactions: Yellow - Red - Yellow - Red - Yellow. Most likely, this will just get you normal cards. However, there's a 1 in 32 chance that the demon will, instead of giving you cards, ask you if you are stupid.
The correct response is to admit that yes, you are a little bit stupid. The demon will then give you a single Fool card.
| Persona |
Type |
Additional Conditions |
Tarot Cards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarutobi Sasuke | Level 20 Fool | none |
1 Fool |
| Tenjiku Tokubei | Level 35 Fool |
none | 2 Fool |
| Tobi Katou | Level 50 Fool | none | 3 Fool |
| Junnosuke Kuroda |
Level 55 Fool | Fill the donation box on the Mifune Trail and complete the
ancestral persona subquest. |
4 Fool |
| Fuuma Kotarou | Level 65 Fool | Return a rank 8 Tobi Katou for a "Book of Fuuma"
material card. |
5 Fool |