Belial

Belial
ベリアル
MT2SMT1 SFCSMT1 PSP5XDCBR Artwork from Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II SFC artwork from Shin Megami Tensei PS artwork from Shin Megami Tensei Artwork from Persona 5: The Phantom X Artwork from Devil Children Black Book and Red Book
Other Name(s)	Missionary of DepravityPersona 5 Persona 5 Royal
Origin	Judaism Christianity Ars Goetia
Race(s)	AkumaDevil Children Light Book and Dark Book Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book BelDevil Survivor Devil Survivor: Overclocked BossDevil Children Black Book and Red Book Devil Children White Book FallenMajin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis TyrantDigital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II Kyūyaku Megami Tensei Shin Megami Tensei Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Shin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse Shin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 Majin Tensei Majin Tensei: Blind Thinker Devil Survivor 2 Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
Alignment(s)	Dark-ChaosShin Megami Tensei Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Shin Megami Tensei V Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance ChaosShin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Arcana	Devil
Order(s)	Pyro

Belial is a Demon in the Megami Tensei franchise.

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Origin

Belial is a Hebrew word meaning "worthlessness" or "wickedness". The Bible several times uses the idiom "sons of Belial" to refer to people who were seen as having committed heinous acts against the people of Israel. In the Second Temple period, Belial (or Beliar) came to be seen as a personal entity, mentioned as a fallen angel leading the forces of darkness in opposition to God in several of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In the Christian New Testament, Beliar is mentioned in a rhetorical question in 2 Corinthians 6:15, meant to demonstrate that the righteous and the wicked cannot coexist. While spelled Beliar in the original Greek, in the Latin Vulgate, it is spelled Belial. Beliar is further used as a name for Satan in some early Christian apocrypha such as the Ascension of Isaiah and the Questions of Bartholomew.

In the Ars Goetia section of The Lesser Key of Solomon, Belial is listed as the sixty-eighth spirit. He is described as a King of Hell who commands 80 legions of demons and 50 legions of spirits. Said to have been created immediately after Lucifer, he has the power to grant senatorships and provide excellent familiars. The text states that offerings, sacrifices, and gifts must be presented to him, or he will not give truthful answers to requests.

Design

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Gameplay

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Compendium

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Compendium Entries
Shin Megami Tensei (A-Mode DDS)	Origin: Israel The fallen angel Satanel. He is known as the prince of lies and swindling. He rides a chariot of fire and has the appearance of two soft-spoken angels. However, contrary to his appearance, he is one of the most evil and lowly beings that exists. It is said that he is the one who brought immorality to Sodom and Gammorah.[sic]
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia, invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their cheif. He is said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire. His name means "worthless" and he is cunning, causing the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as persecuting Jesus Christ.
Shin Megami Tensei IV	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia, invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief. He is said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire. His name means "worthless" and he is cunning, causing the fall of Sodom and Gommorah, as well as persecuting Jesus Christ.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia, invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief. He is said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire. His name means "worthless" and he is cunning, causing the fall of Sodom and Gommorah, as well as persecuting Jesus Christ.
Shin Megami Tensei V	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia, invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief and is said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire. His name means "worthless," and he is known to be exceptionally cunning, having caused the fall of Sodom and Gommorah in addition to persecuting Jesus Christ.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance	One of the 72 demons of the "Ars Goetia" invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief and is said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire. His name means "worthless," and he is known to be exceptionally cunning, having caused the fall of Sodom and Gommorah in addition to persecuting Jesus Christ.
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army	One of the 72 demons invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief. Said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire.
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon	One of the 72 demons invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief. Said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire.
Persona 4	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia. It led the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin, and prosecuted Jesus. Those who summon Belial are granted high social status.
Persona 4 Golden
Persona 5	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia. He led Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin and persecuted Jesus. He grants high social status to those who summon him.
Persona 5 Royal
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia. It led the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin and prosecuted Jesus. Those who summon Belial are granted high social status.
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia. It led the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin and prosecuted Jesus. Those who summon Belial are granted high social status.
Persona 5 Tactica	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia. He led Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin and persecuted Jesus. He grants high social status to those who summon him.
Persona 5: The Phantom X	One of the 72 demons of the Goetia. He led Sodom and Gomorrah to ruinand persecuted Jesus. He grants high social status to those who summon him.
Devil Children Black Book and Red Book	GBC: ニンゲンの　わるいココロに　つけこんで　ヒトがあらそう　すがたをみて　よろこぶデビル PS: 人間の悪い心に　つけこんで　人が争う　すがたを見て　よろこぶデビル Translation:
Devil Children White Book	ニンゲンの　わるいココロに　つけこんで　ヒトがあらそう　すがたをみて　よろこぶデビル Translation:
Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book	人間を　だまし　戦争を　させて　喜ぶ　悪いデビル　人間たちが苦しむ　姿が大好きで　悪い事ばかりする Translation:
DemiKids Light Version and Dark Version	A war-loving demon that manipulates the unwary in order to achieve its own evil goals.
Devil Children Fire Book and Ice Book	人間を　だまし　戦争を　させて　喜ぶ　悪いデビル　人間たちが苦しむ　姿が大好きで　悪い事ばかりする Translation:
Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker	One of the 72 demons invoked by King Solomon. He leads 50 legions of demons as their chief. He is said to appear before his conjurer as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire.

Game Appearances

Shin Megami Tensei

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Belial is the true identity of the Red Count ruling over Roppongi. After the Great Cataclysm, he and Nebiros found Alice's body, and taken by her, resurrected the girl. After introducing themselves to her and becoming her "Uncle Red" and "Uncle Black", they resurrected more people to populate Roppongi so that Alice would have many more friends to play with. After the Hero delivers a Hiranya to her, she will request that he die for her, and seeing that he will not, breaks down in tears. The Red Count, seeing this, transforms into his true form as Belial and attacks the party in order to fulfill Alice's wish. As Belial is invincible, the party is forced to confront him with the Glancing Pot in their possession. He gets sucked into the pot, defeating him, which breaks the illusion placed on Roppongi's undead inhabitants and making Alice fade away. Right after, Yuriko appears and requests that the Hero give her the pot, and should he deny her, she will simply paralyze the party and take it by force anyway.

Later, at the Basilica, after either defeating Lilith should the Hero be on the Law and Neutral routes, or with her simply leaving should he be on the Chaos route, she will drop the Belial Pot, allowing the fusion of the Karyuken.

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Shin Megami Tensei IV

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Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

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Majin Tensei

Belial is the Tyrant faced on stage 32. Upon seeing the Hero, he proclaims he is foolish for daring to venture into the demon world and orders him to burn to ashes in the flames of hell. After he is defeated however, he immobilizes and teleports the Heroine away as revenge and taunts the Protagonist about it.

Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army

After hearing a rumor about a ghost girl haunting telephone booths around the Capital from a patron of the Shin-Sekai Soda Joint, Raidou can bring a Belial in his party to a booth in Tsukudo-Cho to have him answer the phone. After picking up the call, Belial recognizes the voice as she calls him Uncle and mentions that she is considering visiting the Capital. She tells him she will call again and then hangs up.

Later, after hearing the phone ring at a booth in Ginza-Cho, Belial will pick up the call alongside Nebiros and speak with the voice, who identifies herself as Alice. Following this, she will appear, asking them all to die with her, and attack Raidou and his party. Once Alice is defeated, Belial and Nebiros will state their intent to live together with Alice following the end of Raidou's current case, promising to build a home for them in the Capital safe from humans.

Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon

Starting from Chapter 4, if Raidou has completed the case files "My Wish (1)" and "My Wish (2)," and is Chaos-aligned, he can visit the Blonde Young Man at Harumi-Cho's Catholic Church to receive the case file "One Girl's Happiness," in which the case file's clients, Uncle Red and Uncle Black, request that Raidou find a girl named Alice.

After Raidou defeats Alice in the case file, Belial and Nebiros appear and reveal themselves to be the true identities of Uncle Red and Uncle Black. They contain Alice's soul in their Staff of Death, and explain to Raidou that Alice was a girl who died young, so they resurrected her to give her a longer life. Though the three lived together happily at first, eventually, Alice's soul could not take the pressure of maintaining her demon body and went adrift through space and time, eventually ending up in Raidou's time. Wishing to see Alice happy once more, the two demons give Raidou the staff housing Alice's soul and request he take it to Victor to revive her through fusion before leaving.

Devil Survivor

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Belial is one of the demons crowned with the name of Bel, and appears on the 6th day in Hibiya Park.

Devil Survivor 2

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Trivia

• In the Mega-CD version of Shin Megami Tensei, a Decarabia NPC in the Basilica reveals that Belial and Nebiros were supposed to have taken over the Basilica, and had they not abandoned the plan in favor of raising Alice, they would have been able to have done it before the Great Flood could have occurred.

Nomenclature

BelialEnemy-only

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Belial
Japanese	ベリアル Beriaru	Belial
	ベル・イアルDevil Survivor Devil Survivor: Overclocked Beru iaru	Bel-ial
Simplified Chinese	彼列 Bǐliè	Belial
Traditional Chinese	貝利亞 Bèilìyà	Belial
French	Bélial	Belial
German	Belial	Belial
Italian	Belial	Belial
Korean	베리얼Shin Megami Tensei IV Persona 4 Persona 4 Golden Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth DeviChil Berieol
	벨리알Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Persona 5 Royal Persona 5 Tactica Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker Bellial	Belial
Polish	Belial	Belial
Brazilian Portuguese	Belial	Belial
Russian	Белиал Belial	Belial
Peninsular Spanish	Belial	Belial
Turkish	Belial	Belial

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Missionary of DepravityPersona 5 Royal
Japanese	堕落の伝道師Persona 5 Royal Daraku no Dendōshi	Evangelist of Depravity
Simplified Chinese	堕落的传教士Persona 5 Royal Duòluò de Chuánjiàoshì	Depraved Missionary
Traditional Chinese	墮落的傳教士Persona 5 Royal Duòluò de Chuánjiàoshì	Depraved Missionary
French	Missionnaire de décadencePersona 5 Royal	Missionary of Decadence
German	VerdorbenheitsmissionarPersona 5 Royal	Missionary of Depravitymasculine form
Italian	Araldo della depravazionePersona 5 Royal	Herald of Depravity
Korean	타락墮落한 전도사傳道師Persona 5 Royal Tarakan Jeondosa	Depraved Evangelist
Peninsular Spanish	Misionero depravadoPersona 5 Royal	Depraved Missionarymasculine form

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