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The Metaverse is a location in the Persona series.
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The Metaverse is only interacted with by entering Palaces, including Mementos. The player can choose to enter either the currently active Palace or Mementos from the Phantom Thieves' hideout. Once a Palace's treasure is stolen, it disappears permanently.
Persona 5 Strikers
The Metaverse is interacted with by entering Jails. The player can choose to enter any Jail they have previously accessed.
Game Appearances
Persona 5
The Metaverse is an alternate, distorted version of reality located within humanity's cognition containing various Palaces. People's Shadows reside within the Metaverse, while demons from the Sea of Souls wander into its Palaces and become Shadows under the Palace ruler's control. The "core" of the Metaverse is Mementos, humanity's collective Palace, from which other Palaces form. Should a person's desires become sufficiently distorted, their Shadow self within Mementos will form an isolated area for itself, where they can be confronted directly to trigger a change of heart. Should the distortion progress further, they will separate from Mementos and form their own Palace as an alternate version of a location that is key to their distortion. These Palaces can only be accessed by knowing select information about the ruler: who they are, which location their Palace represents, and what their perception of that location is. Humans are only seen entering the Metaverse using the Metaverse Navigator, though beings like Morgana have the innate ability to enter the Metaverse. Once the Metaverse is entered, it can only be exited by returning to the location it was entered from.
The Metaverse first appears after Ren Amamiya steps foot in Shibuya for the first time, albeit for only long enough for him to have a vision of Arsène. Two days later, he and Ryuji Sakamoto accidentally wander into the Metaverse, as the Navigator picked up on their conversation regarding Suguru Kamoshida, which happened to give it all of the necessary information to transport them to Kamoshida's Palace. Ren awakens to his Persona, then him and Ryuji find Morgana, who knows of the Metaverse and helps them escape the Palace. Morgana eventually leaves the Palace himself and finds the two, seeking help for his own goals of regaining his human form and memories as payment for the information he gave them. Eventually, with their expulsions on the line, they agree to infiltrate Kamoshida's Palace and force him into having a change of heart. They are joined by Ann Takamaki and, after their success in stealing Kamoshida's Treasure, agree to continue acting in the Metaverse as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, eventually learning of Mementos to also act upon less distorted individuals.
During their infiltration of Madarame's and Kaneshiro's Palaces, the Phantom Thieves learn of another actor within the Metaverse who is using it for their own unethical goals. Then, during their infiltration of Futaba's Palace, they learn of Cognitive Psience, a field of study related to the Metaverse and the human subsconscious. Cognitive Psience was sabotaged by Masayoshi Shido, who ordered the removal of funding and people not loyal to him from the field, going so far as to kill Wakaba Isshiki. This was in order for him to use the Metaverse for his own gains through an assassin who had somehow gained access to the Metaverse Navigator, bolstering his political career through untraceable corruption, though the Phantom Thieves had drawn his attention by inadvertently targeting key figures in his operation.
After being framed for Kunikazu Okumura's death and setting a trap against Goro Akechi, the assassin working for Shido, the Phantom Thieves manage to trigger a change of heart in Shido, though his allies cover up the truth of the matter and plan to arrest the Phantom Thieves anyway. To combat this, the Phantom Thieves head into the Depths of Mementos to steal the public's distorted desires. There, they find a prison where the general public's Shadows go to, liberating them from the need to think for themselves. At the bottom, they confront the Treasure of Mementos: Yaldabaoth, who is the manifestation of the public's desire to be controlled. Yaldabaoth ejects the Phantom Thieves to Shibuya and begins to merge reality with Mementos, creating the Qlipoth World, then uses his power over cognition to erase the Phantom Thieves from the collective consciousness, which erases them physically as well, though they are instead transported to the Velvet Room, where it is revealed that Yaldabaoth had usurped it for his own sake, sealing Igor and subjugating Lavenza into two ignorant attendants, Caroline and Justine, and placed himself as their master to guide Ren. Ren fuses the twins into Lavenza and frees the Phantom Thieves, who restore themselves into reality.
The Phantom Thieves fight against Yaldabaoth's Archangels, with each defeat loosening his control over the populace, then finally confront Yaldabaoth himself. The Phantom Thieves inspire hope in the people, which Ren uses to evolve his Persona into Satanael and destroy Yaldabaoth, and by extension the Qlipoth World and the Metaverse.
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If Ren Amamiya helped Takuto Maruki complete his research, following Yaldabaoth's defeat, Mementos appears to have disappeared from reality. Starting with the new year, however, several impossibilities suddenly become real, with only Ren, Goro Akechi and Yoshizawa being aware of this fact. Yoshizawa finds the Palace she had accidentally wandered into in October and calls Ren, who is joined by Akechi. The three are able to enter the Metaverse through the Metaverse Navigator, where it is revealed that the Palace is ruled by Takuto Maruki himself, and not his Shadow. Maruki then reveals that the anomalies in reality were caused by him as part of his plan to create a world without pain. He and Akechi also reveal that Kasumi Yoshizawa had been dead since April, and he had actually been acquainted with her younger sister, Sumire Yoshizawa, who had been subjected to Maruki's power in order to make her believe she was Kasumi and forget the grief she felt in indirectly causing her sister's death. Maruki takes Sumire and forces Ren and Akechi to return the next week, during which Ren talks with the other Phantom Thieves under the influence of Maruki's reality, giving them reason to doubt it, and Akechi investigates the extent of Maruki's revisions.
The Phantom Thieves break free from Maruki's reality, immediately undoing whichever revisions he had done for their sake, and follow Ren and Akechi to Maruki's Palace to save Sumire from Maruki. Maruki then disappears, giving them a new deadline of February 3rd to decide whether they would like to live in his reality or not. Later, Lavenza invites the Phantom Thieves to Shujin Academy to explain that Mementos was never destroyed and is still gradually fusing with reality, and that Maruki's deadline is the last day before the fusion becomes irreversible. Furthermore, Yaldabaoth's death created a vacuum, which the public wanted to fill in by putting the Phantom Thieves in his position, but the Phantom Thieves in turn subconsciously gave that position to Maruki, as each of them received his counseling, elevating Maruki's power to Yaldabaoth's and giving him and his Persona free rein over Mementos and humanity's desires.
Despite Maruki's wishes, the Phantom Thieves reject his reality, infiltrating both his Palace and Mementos, then confronting him directly. The Phantom Thieves defeat Maruki, and by extension destroy the Metaverse and his reality. With Maruki's revisions gone, reality is retroactively restored to the one that would have taken place if Maruki never took control, with only him and the Phantom Thieves having any memory of those events.
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Nomenclature
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 English
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Metaverse | |
 Japanese
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異世界 Isekai | Other world |
 Simplified Chinese
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异世界 Yìshìjiè | Other world |
   Traditional Chinese
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異世界 Yìshìjiè | Other world |