Persona and Arcana Index The Magician: Personas of the Magician are, as The Lovers: Personas of the Lovers are associated their name suggest, explicitly magical. They are with romance and affection, of both the pure and figures that have supreme mastery of some force tragic kind. They include gods and spirits of love of the physical world, whether as a nature spirit, as well as mythic and literary figures entangled in an elemental deity or a hero so exceptionally love triangles, forbidden romance and fiery skilled that his talents seem magical in their own passion. Examples: Aphrodite, Carmen, right. Examples: Djinn, Gandalf, Houdini, Jiraiya, Guinevere, Ishtar, Kushinada, Lord Byron, Tristan Nikola Tesla, Queen Mab, Susanoo, Zorro The Chariot: Personas of the Chariot are warriors The High Priestess: Personas of the High Priestess and heroes of extraordinary strength and skill. are normally feminine figures of wisdom and Their martial prowess dominates the battlefield strength, who wield their insight into the swiftly and completely, and are the things of mysteries of the universe as a powerful weapon. legend. Gods and goddesses of war are included They often take the form of maidens, princesses, within this Arcana. Examples: Ares, Athena, Davy witches and spiritual warrior women. Examples: Crockett, Hercules, Lu Bu, Miyamoto Musashi, Artemis, Konohana Sakuya, Lady of the Lake, Pope Thor, Joan, Pythia, Scathach Justice: Personas of Justice are towering icons of The Empress: Personas of the Empress are law and order, frequently at the expense of all renowned queens from folklore and antiquity and other concepts, which they smash beneath their high goddesses of mythology. Though they hold gavels or rend to shreds with sharp swords. They almighty power, they wield it with a maternal include those who craft the law; enforce it; and hand, though never with weakness. Examples: pass judgement against its violators. Examples: Durga, Echidna, Ellen Ripley, Freya, Hippolyta, Isis, Hammurabi, Javert, Judge Dread, Lady Justice, Titania, Zenobia Punisher, King Enma The Emperor: Personas of the Emperor are, as The Hermit: The Hermit’s Personas exemplify the their name suggests, famous emperors and kings fruits of contemplation and inner strength built as well as the chief gods of different mythologies. through meditation and knowing one’s self. They Their power is absolute, dominant and include gods and wise men who gained spiritual overwhelming to stand against, forcing all to bend awareness through their own inward focus as well the knee. Examples: Alexander the Great, Caesar, as poets and artists whose isolation produced Gilgamesh, Jade Emperor, Oberon, Odin, Zeus works of genius. Examples: Baba Yaga, Chiron, Dante, Gautama Buddha, J.D. Salinger, Kurt The Hierophant: Personas of the Hierophant Cobain Yoda typify figures of profound wisdom and spiritual strength—prophets, gurus, holy men and saints. Fortune: Fortune’s Personas represent the cycles They are guides along the road to enlightenment of the world. Good luck and bad, rise and decline, and higher understanding. Examples: Confucius, the steady march of time. These Personas spring Elijah, Obi‐Wan Kenobi, Pythagoras, Thoth, Virgil, from myths that seek to explain these cycles and Xuanzang help one cope with the inevitability of change and the randomness of life. Examples: Janus, Erwin Schrodinger, Fortuna, Norns, Pele, Persephone Persona and Arcana Index Strength: Strength Personas are warriors famed The Tower: Tower Personas bring doom or are for their unshakable bravery and resolve. Their themselves doomed, by fate or by their own legends have them stand against seemingly arrogance. Some are legends cursed by higher insurmountable dangers, driven inexorably by powers for impudence, others are gods or spirits faith, willpower or unbending devotion to a of wrath and destruction. Examples: Abdul cause. Examples: Beowulf, Boudicca, Hua Mulan. Alhazred, Cu Chulainn, The Fisher King, Macbeth, Jeanne d’Arc, Sif, Siegfried, William Wallace Odysseus, Set, Shiva The Hanged Man: Personas of the Hanged Man The Star: Personas of the Star embody hope, are martyrs—gods and heroes who have suffered possibility, inspiration and virtue. More tremendous hardship and sacrifice in the pursuit specifically they may be gods or spirits of music of a higher cause, even to the point of death and and art, and even of the stars themselves, which beyond. Examples: Benkei, Frodo Baggins, symbolize the yearning of human hearts for Prometheus, Socrates, St. Peter, Valentine distant desires. Examples: Buck Rogers, Calisto, Michael Smith Da Vinci, Galahad, Maat, The Pleiades, Sarasvati Death: Death Personas are, naturally, beings of The Moon: Personas of the Moon are creatures of death, decay and the underworld—but not always illusion, dreams, trickery and the subconscious. malevolently so. These figures may stand for These traits align them directly with the Moon death as the passage from one life to the next, itself, and so many of these Personas take the and so are as often gentle guides as they are grim form of lunar spirits and gods. Examples: Baku, reapers. Examples: Anubis, Baron Samedi, Mothman, Morpheus, Princess Kaguya, Selene, Charon, Daisoujou, Hel, Osiris, Thanatos Tsukuyomi Temperance: Personas of Temperance are The Sun: Sun Personas are beaming sources of stalwart icons of stability and fortitude. They goodness, beauty, vitality and positivity. They often represent elements of nature revered for very commonly take the form of solar deities or their reliability and resistance to the winds of heroes connected directly with light and purity. change. As mythic figures, they fight to preserve Examples: Amaterasu, Apollo, Baldr, Ganesha, life and order against forces of chaos. Examples: Horus, Phoenix, Quetzalcoatl The Four Chinese Symbols, Harmonia, Kali, Talos, Vishnu Judgement: Personas of Judgement are harbingers of The End of All Things. They stand in Devil: Personas of the Devil are diabolical judgement of men and the world in general and creatures of sin and temptation. By nature they decide whether to usher in destruction or rebirth. seem less friendly and more sinister, luring their As a result they are often linked closely with victims into ruin with honeyed words and offers revalations of the future, as well as of impending of gifts and power. Examples: Circe, Delilah, cataclysm. Examples: Ancient of Days, B’olon Emperor Palpatine, Mara, Mephistopheles Yokte’, Cassandra, Gabriel, Jormungandr, Maitreya Persona and Arcana Index The Fool: Personas of the Fool are special. In Personas 3‐5 they are the domain of the Protagonist, who acts as a silent, blank slate for the player. As such, they normally have the form of protagonists various mythic stories. When not directly connected to a single main character, Fool Personas are jesters, mischief makers and heroes that walk a fine line between carefree innocence and hazardous ignorance. Examples: Br’er Rabbit, Candide, Coyote, Don Quixote, Loki, Puck The World: Personas of the World are even more special. In the Persona games they are the culmination of the cast’s journey and struggle against the otherworldly forces threatening them. Thus, they aren’t “for public consumption”, so to speak, and take the form of creation deities and supreme, almighty gods. Examples: Ahura Mazda, Atum, Brahma, Gaia, Izanagi‐no‐Okami .