Book

This article is about the Shadow enemies that appear in Persona 3 and Persona 4. For the mechanic, see Books.

Book
聖典Religious Text
Model from Persona 3 Reload
Arcana	Priestess

Book is a recurring type of Shadow in the Persona series.

Profile

Books were introduced in Persona 3. They are related to the Priestess Arcana and have crosses similar to the Priestess figure in the Rider-Waite deck.

List of Shadows

Persona 3

List also applies to Persona 3 FES: The Journey and Persona 3 Portable.

Name	Level
Spurious Book	12
Maniacal Book	21
Silent Book	27
Wrathful Book	72

Persona 3 FES : The Answer

Name	Level
Spurious Book	25
Maniacal Book	35
Wrathful Book	50
Silent Book	52

Persona 3 Reload

Name	Level
Spurious Book	12
Maniacal Book	18
Silent Book	27
Wrathful Book	61
Silent Book (Monad)	39
Morbid Book (Monad)	70
Spurious Book (Inside Monorail)	9
Tome of Atrophy (Mini-boss)	31
Tome of Persecution (Mini-boss)	47

Persona 4

Name	Level
Spurious Book	39
Maniacal Book	58
Silent Book	72
Wrathful Book	76

Persona 4 Golden

Name	Level
Spurious Book	39
Maniacal Book	58
Silent Book	72
Wrathful Book	76

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Name	Level
Spurious Book	14

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

Name	Level
Spurious Book	6
Blessbane Book	33
Cursebane Book	33
Maniacal Book	49

Trivia

• In Persona 3 and Persona 4, the mask worn by Priestess Shadows erroneously have "III" written on them which would be the Empress rather than Priestess. This has been corrected to "II" as of Persona 3 Reload.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Book
Japanese	聖典 Seiten	Religious Text
Simplified Chinese	圣典 Shèngdiǎn	Scripture
Traditional Chinese	聖典 Shèngdiǎn	Scripture
French	Livre	Book
German	Buch	Book
Italian	Testo	Text
Korean	성전聖典 Seongjeon	Religious Text
Polish	Księga	Tome
Brazilian Portuguese	Livro	Book
Russian	Книга Kniga	Book
Peninsular Spanish	Libro	Book
Turkish	Kitap	Book