Persephone

Persephone
ペルセポネー
Artwork from Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Origin	Greek culture
Race(s)	ReaperShin Megami Tensei: Nine Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Shin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner Kētai Akuma Densho VileShin Megami Tensei: J
Alignment(s)	Dark-LawShin Megami Tensei: Nine Dark-NeutralShin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers NeutralShin Megami Tensei IV Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

Persephone is a Demon in the Megami Tensei franchise.

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Origin

Pottery depicting Hades' abduction of Persephone (c. 350-325 BC)

Persephone, also known by the name Kore meaning "the maiden", is a goddess of Greek mythology. The daughter of Demeter and Zeus, she is best known for the myth of her abduction. The god of the underworld Hades fell in love with Persephone and seeking to marry her sought out her father Zeus, who granted his approval. However knowing that Demeter would never allow her daughter to marry, Zeus instructed Hades to abduct Persephone so that Demeter would not know. On a day when Persephone was in a field gathering flowers, Hades erupted from the earth on a chariot and stole her to the underworld.

With the disappearance of her daughter, Demeter desperately searched the earth to find Persephone and prevents any vegetation from growing. Eventually she learns from the god Helios, who was witnessing the abduction from the sun, that it was Hades that took Persephone. Enraged, she allows famine to kill countless humans and forces Zeus to request that Hades return Persephone from the underworld. While Hades acquiesces to the request, he tricks Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds from the underworld, and as she has eaten to food of the underworld she is bound to spend three months in the underworld each year, acting as a mythological explanation of winter as Demeter is said to allow the world to suffer as it did when she was searching for her daughter and Persephone's return signalling the end. From this, Persephone is considered the goddess of spring.

As the wife of Hades, she is considered the queen of the underworld and given the epithet of "Dread Persephone" or "Despoina" meaning "The Mistress", and is considered Hades equal in power and authority over the dead. Their children are debated, sometimes being Zagreus and Melinoë though various myths attribute the father of the two as Zeus rather than Hades. In Orphic tradition the Erinyes are the offspring of Persephone and Hades rather than the children of Nyx.

Design

Persephone is a red-haired woman who is vertically bisected, with both halves connected only by an amber colored substance. The right half has an entirely blue eye, an apple in her hand, and predominantly white skin with black markings in the form of stripes and a sun over her breast. The left half instead has an entirely red eye, holds a pomegranate, and has predominantly black skin with silver markings; the one over the breast is a five-pointed star. The division into two parts represents the division of Persephone's time between the underworld and the earth.

Gameplay

Shin Megami Tensei IV

	Name Level HP MP Persephone 57 315 306	Strength 54 Dexterity 60 Magic 78 Agility 51 Luck 72
Race AlignmentFactored with certain skills Speech C. CostCompendium Summoning Cost Reaper Neutral — —
Resistances — — — NulNull WkWeak — StrStrong NulNull ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
Ailment Resistances ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
Basic Attack Element Hit(s) Target Effect Phys 1 Single enemy —
Skills Skill Cost Description Level Bufudyne 14 MP Heavy Ice damage to one enemy. Innate Death's Door 10 MP Weak Almighty damage to all enemies. Reduces Sick targets' HP to 1. Innate Mamudoon 30 MP chance of instant K.O. (Dark) to all enemies. 58

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

EnemyAlly

	Name Level HP MP Persephone 57 527 306	Strength 36 Dexterity 48 Magic 84 Agility 50 Luck 66
Race AlignmentFactored with certain skills EXP Recruit Beg Speech RERandom Encounter Reaper Neutral — — — Girl (A) ✔
Drop — — —
Resistances — — — NuNull WkWeak — — NuNull ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1¼×1.25 ×1 ×1 ×1
Ailment Resistances ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
Skill Affinity — — −2 +2 −3 — — +3 — +2 — −2
Basic Attack Element Hit(s) Target Effect Phys 1 Single enemy —
Skills Skill Cost Description Bufudyne 20 MP Heavy ice damage to one foe. Death's Door 35 MP 1 point of damage to all foes but drops remaining HP to 1 to sick targets.

	Name Level HP MP Persephone 57 370 306	Strength 39 Dexterity 51 Magic 87 Agility 53 Luck 69
Race AlignmentFactored with certain skills Speech C. CostCompendium Summoning Cost Reaper Neutral Girl (A) 40202
Resistances — — — NuNull WkWeak — — NuNull ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1¼×1.25 ×1 ×1 ×1
Ailment Resistances ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
Skill Affinity — — −2 +2 −3 — — +3 — +2 — −2
Basic Attack Element Hit(s) Target Effect Phys 1 Single enemy —
Skills Skill Cost Description Level Bufudyne 20 MP Heavy ice damage to one foe. Innate Death's Door 35 MP 1 point of damage to all foes but drops remaining HP to 1 to sick targets. Innate Mamudoon 28 MP Heavy dark damage to all foes. Smirk: +55% instant death 58

Compendium

Compendium Entries
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey	The goddess who became Hades's wife in Greek lore. She is said to have the power to bring fertility to the earth. While playing with the Oceanids, the earth cracked and Hades appeared to take her away to the underworld. Without her, the earth grew barren, but she was able to return for several months of each year, bringing fertility back while she was free.
Shin Megami Tensei IV	The goddess who became Hades' wife in Greek lore. She is said to have the power to bring fertility to the earth. While playing with the Oceanids, the earth cracked and Hades appeared to take her away to the underworld. Without her, the earth grew barren, but she was able to return for several months of each year, bringing fertility back while she was free.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	The goddess who became Hades' wife in Greek lore. She is said to have the power to bring fertility to the earth. While playing with the Oceanids, the earth cracked and Hades appeared to take her away to the underworld. Without her, the earth grew barren, but she was able to return for several months of each year, bringing fertility back while she was free.
Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2	The goddess that became Hades' wife in Greek mythology and who is said to have the power to bring fertility to the earth. While playing with the Oceanids, the earth cracked and Hades appeared and took her away to the underworld. Without her, the earth grew barren, but she was allowed to return by the other gods for several months of each year, bringing fertility back while she was free.
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (3DS)	The goddess who became Hades's wife in Greek lore. She is said to have the power to bring fertility to the earth. While playing with the Oceanids, the earth cracked and Hades appeared to take her away to the underworld. Without her, the earth grew barren, but she was able to return for several months of each year, bringing stability back while she was free.
Kētai Akuma Densho	冥界の王ハデスの妻となった女神。大地に豊饒をもたらす力を持つとされる。 出身地：ギリシア ペルセポネーはギリシア神話に登場する冥界の王ハデスの妻で、地下の国の王妃であるとされる。彼女は、オーケアノスの娘達と野原で花をつんで遊んでいたところ、突然目の前の大地が裂け、その裂け目から現れた冥界の王ハデスによって地下の国へと連れていかれたと伝えられている。豊饒の女神でもあった彼女がいなくなった大地は枯れ果てたが、それを悲しんだ神々の声を受け、彼女は1年の3分の1を地上で暮らすようになり、大地には豊饒が蘇った。 Translation: The goddess who became the wife of the king of the underworld, Hades. Said to have the power to bring fertility to the land. Origin: Greece Persephone appears in Greek myth as the wife of the king of the underworld, Hades, and is considered to be the queen of the underground realm. As a result of her plucking flowers and playing with the children of Oceanus, the ground suddenly split apart before her, and from the fissure came the king of the underworld, Hades, who took her to the the underground realm. As she was also a goddess of fertility, the earth withered, though she received the mournful gods' voices and was allowed to live aboveground for a third of each year, bringing back fertility to the land.
Kaneko Kazuma Dennō Akuma Zukan	全能神ゼウスと豊穣の神デメテルの娘。冥界の王ハデスがペルセポネーを妻にするため、冥界へとペルセポネーを連れ去ってしまってから冥界の女王となる。なお、ローマ神話ではプロセルピナと呼ばれる。 Translation: The daughter of the almighty god, Zeus, and the god of harvest, Demeter. To make her his wife, the king of the underworld, Hades, took Persephone into the underworld and later made her the queen of the underworld. Furthermore, in Roman myth, she is called Proserpina.

Game Appearances

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

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Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Persephone
Japanese	ペルセポネー Peruseponē	Persephone
Korean	페르세포네 Pereusepone	Persephone

Gallery

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  Artwork from Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
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  Render from Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2
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  Sprite from Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
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  Sprite from Shin Megami Tensei IV
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  Sprite from the PlayStation version of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
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  Sprite from the Nintendo 3DS version of Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
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  Sprite from the PlayStation Portable version of Persona 2: Innocent Sin
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  Sprite from Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner
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  RTS icon from Shin Megami Tensei: Nine
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  Portrait graphic from Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
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  Graphic from Kaneko Kazuma Dennō Akuma Zukan
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  Model from Shin Megami Tensei: Nine