'''[[Dimensionality]]:''' '''3-D''', his demons are '''Devoid''' in their true forms ([https://youtu.be/4haQ5T9DoWk?list=PLDwjEcGRHRZ7pABsyzZ6bOKGshMroT93E&t=881 Demons embody the phenomena and beliefs of humans, with their physical forms only being created due to humanity's observation locking them into these forms], [https://youtu.be/mU1bTqbGlDg?t=364 and their true forms existing as the phenomena and beliefs they reside in]. [https://youtu.be/4haQ5T9DoWk?list=PLDwjEcGRHRZ7pABsyzZ6bOKGshMroT93E&t=881 Demons only have "forms" due to the observation of humanity] [https://youtu.be/CF9IHP0s0B4?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=1053 with even some demons being in the lowest form of humanity's observation making them unseeable without help], the "true forms" of demons are in truth [https://youtu.be/6064HUSmlT8?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=1150 without the concept of form], without observation [https://youtu.be/i1YhCwcb3GM?t=1155 they are not certain nor stable], [https://youtu.be/i1YhCwcb3GM?t=1155 are a phenomena without an answer] [https://youtu.be/i1YhCwcb3GM?t=1194 and are unbound by concepts such as truth] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1433 completely unshaped by reality]. [https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=525 Demons under their observation forms embody concepts such as infinity] which they are free from in their true forms)
'''[[Dimensionality]]:''' '''3-D''', his demons are '''Devoid''' in their true forms ([https://youtu.be/4haQ5T9DoWk?list=PLDwjEcGRHRZ7pABsyzZ6bOKGshMroT93E&t=881 Demons embody the phenomena and beliefs of humans, with their physical forms only being created due to humanity's observation locking them into these forms], [https://youtu.be/mU1bTqbGlDg?t=364 and their true forms existing as the phenomena and beliefs they reside in]. [https://youtu.be/4haQ5T9DoWk?list=PLDwjEcGRHRZ7pABsyzZ6bOKGshMroT93E&t=881 Demons only have "forms" due to the observation of humanity] [https://youtu.be/CF9IHP0s0B4?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=1053 with even some demons being in the lowest form of humanity's observation making them unseeable without help], the "true forms" of demons are in truth [https://youtu.be/6064HUSmlT8?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=1150 without the concept of form], without observation [https://youtu.be/i1YhCwcb3GM?t=1155 they are not certain nor stable], [https://youtu.be/i1YhCwcb3GM?t=1155 are a phenomena without an answer] [https://youtu.be/i1YhCwcb3GM?t=1194 and are unbound by concepts such as truth] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1433 completely unshaped by reality]. [https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=525 Demons under their observation forms embody concepts such as infinity] which they are free from in their true forms)
'''[[Attack Potency]]:''' '''Building level''' ([https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=376 Has access to Agi skills], [https://youtu.be/0xYct8Y3Zqk?t=98 which can vaporize humans], [https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/09/13/2122208/it-takes-299-gigajoules-to-vaporize-a-human-body which gives these results]. [https://youtu.be/RcS_yQPihkw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=394 Has access to Bufu skills], [https://youtu.be/0xYct8Y3Zqk?t=86 which can completely freeze opponents], [[Reference_for_Common_Feats#Freezing_a_Human|giving these results]]. [https://youtu.be/RntJBLk6SHk?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1965 Fought and defeated a living car demon]), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] ([https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1410 Observation can be used to massively amplify one's stats, such as when the early game] ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'' protagonist was amplified to be able to fight with all the other end game protagonists and fight Stephen. [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1862 With it's power being noted by Stephen to give humans the potential to exceed the] Axiom) & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] ([https://imgur.com/a/MBUN2th A characters willpower in SMT allows them to increase greatly in strength allowing them to harm enemies they couldn't even scratch before and survive attacks that would have originally kill them], [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=2272 the will of one's friends and allies around them can invigorate one to become far more powerful then before]) | '''Universe level''' ([https://youtu.be/HVElmF_2RPY?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=135 Noted to wield power unattainable by ordinary men]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juughi_pBu4&list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=75s Fought and defeated] Nebiros, a demon in ''Shin Megami Tensei I'' [https://youtu.be/cyF-KOQTUDM?t=409 that is fought] [https://youtu.be/cyF-KOQTUDM?t=171 after] Belial [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nfmsWL3_c and far after] Thor who Loki [https://youtu.be/6elodbFQd6w?t=163 considers enough of a threat to give him an item in exchange for getting out of a fight with him]. Loki can create and sustain his own universe<ref>[http://ddstranslation.blogspot.com/2007/03/part-2-chapter-4.html Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2, Chapter 4] "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?" "Yes, that's right." "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."</ref>), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse level''' ([https://youtu.be/jgiwayxrauc?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2216 Noted by] Goutou that he's watched every Raidou Kuzunoha since the 2nd and Raidou is the finest of them all. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=391 Fought and defeated] [[Raidou Kuzunoha the XL]], [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=267 who is noted to be a cold power of incredible proportions]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=924 Can harm and defeat] [[Raidou Kuzunoha the XL]] [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1576 merged with the] [[Soulless God Oumagatsu]], [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2265 who is implied to have transcended time, allowing them to access] Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themself otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. The Soulless God Oumagatsu, [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=936 was used against] [[Keiji Minegishi]] & [[Nemissa]], [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=6 who previously fought and defeated] the [[The Protagonist (Devil Summoner)|Devil Summoner protagonist]], [https://youtu.be/X5MzgUwCu2s?t=2375 who fought and defeated the] Demiurge, [https://youtu.be/hfTVPJnZcUk?t=356 who is stated by] Metatron [https://youtu.be/hfTVPJnZcUk?t=363 to be the most powerful of] [[YHVH]]'s fragments. [[YHVH]] [https://imgur.com/a/eNIH9qI is the progenitor of all gods and all religions from all around the world, existing as the one true original god]. [https://imgur.com/a/AQppUyn Turned all other gods in the pantheon into demons]. [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything]<ref>Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.</ref> [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=171 A single manifestation head is so far beyond all of creation that not even his creations blades can harm him]<ref>The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|observation]] weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying</ref>. [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=85 YHVH is a being who created] [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ infinite universes], [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=70 and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse]. [https://imgur.com/hBzsNkT The multiverse is] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2ZXAZeN3Q&t=19s&ab_channel=davidramons composed of] [https://youtu.be/XvzWQt8jmTA?t=22 information and] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8oNYHRuJw&t=9995s&ab_channel=BuffMaister data], [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1477 further proven with] [[Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)|Stephen]] having attacks that can code beings that the world, this would make SMT a mathematical multiverse falling under the [[Multiverse#Max_Tegmark's_Multiverse|level 4 multiverse]], [https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html a multiverse where every possible mathematical structure and be described at some level], [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ which would include any possible level of reality that can be conceived of using set theory]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. Beings such as [[Metatron]], [https://youtu.be/wH_4Fkwrh2A?t=7m50s are amped by them by in their fight against an] end game [[Demi-fiend]]. His avatar [[Kagutsuchi (Megami Tensei)|Kagutsuchi]], [https://youtu.be/c_t3wbCKCho created and sustains the Vortex world], which was resulted from him [https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Miroku_Scripture erasing the past, present and future of the universe], in order to construct the Vortex World in its foundations. [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1843 Exists as the light that encompasses] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=987 and administers all of creation within the Amala universe that is said to contain countless worlds] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1804 along with being the source to creation] [https://youtu.be/cJ834NlLbgg?t=1411 with his defeat causing the destruction of the Amala universe]. [https://imgur.com/a/isoUifN Merged the Demon World and the Divine World into the remnants of the human realm to create the Vortex World]; the Demon World, best known as the Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 is a higher plane of existence that transcends past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. [[Kagutsuchi (Shin Megami Tensei)|Kagutsuchi]] is capable of empowering the Reason Gods, among which is Ahriman, in order to allow them to reshape the foundation of the Vortex World and birth a new reality. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2255 Noted that Raidou has surpassed even God]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=723 Projected themself as a head very similar in appearance to] [[YHVH]]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2252 Noted themself as a god that Raidou has surpassed], giving off heavy implication that they're on a similar level to [[YHVH]]), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Attack Potency]]:''' '''Building level''' ([https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=376 Has access to Agi skills], [https://youtu.be/0xYct8Y3Zqk?t=98 which can vaporize humans], [https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/09/13/2122208/it-takes-299-gigajoules-to-vaporize-a-human-body which gives these results]. [https://youtu.be/RcS_yQPihkw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=394 Has access to Bufu skills], [https://youtu.be/0xYct8Y3Zqk?t=86 which can completely freeze opponents], [[Reference_for_Common_Feats#Freezing_a_Human|giving these results]]. [https://youtu.be/RntJBLk6SHk?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1965 Fought and defeated a living car demon]), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] ([https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1410 Observation can be used to massively amplify one's stats, such as when the early game] ''Shin Megami Tensei 1'' protagonist was amplified to be able to fight with all the other end game protagonists and fight Stephen. [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1862 With it's power being noted by Stephen to give humans the potential to exceed the] Axiom) & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] ([https://imgur.com/a/MBUN2th A characters willpower in SMT allows them to increase greatly in strength allowing them to harm enemies they couldn't even scratch before and survive attacks that would have originally kill them], [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=2272 the will of one's friends and allies around them can invigorate one to become far more powerful then before]) | '''Universe level''' ([https://youtu.be/HVElmF_2RPY?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=135 Noted to wield power unattainable by ordinary men]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juughi_pBu4&list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=75s Fought and defeated] Nebiros, a demon in ''Shin Megami Tensei I'' [https://youtu.be/cyF-KOQTUDM?t=409 that is fought] [https://youtu.be/cyF-KOQTUDM?t=171 after] Belial [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nfmsWL3_c and far after] Thor who Loki [https://youtu.be/6elodbFQd6w?t=163 considers enough of a threat to give him an item in exchange for getting out of a fight with him]. Loki can create and sustain his own universe<ref>[http://ddstranslation.blogspot.com/2007/03/part-2-chapter-4.html Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2, Chapter 4] "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?" "Yes, that's right." "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."</ref>), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse level''' ([https://youtu.be/jgiwayxrauc?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2216 Noted by] Goutou that he's watched every Raidou Kuzunoha since the 2nd and Raidou is the finest of them all. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=391 Fought and defeated] [[Raidou Kuzunoha the XL]], [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=267 who is noted to be a cold power of incredible proportions]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=924 Can harm and defeat] [[Raidou Kuzunoha the XL]] [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1576 merged with the] [[Soulless God Oumagatsu]], [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2265 who is implied to have transcended time, allowing them to access] Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themself otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. The Soulless God Oumagatsu, [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=936 was used against] [[Keiji Minegishi]] & [[Nemissa]], [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=6 who previously fought and defeated] the [[The Protagonist (Devil Summoner)|Devil Summoner protagonist]], [https://youtu.be/X5MzgUwCu2s?t=2375 who fought and defeated the] Demiurge, [https://youtu.be/hfTVPJnZcUk?t=356 who is stated by] Metatron [https://youtu.be/hfTVPJnZcUk?t=363 to be the most powerful of] [[YHVH]]'s fragments. [[YHVH]] [https://imgur.com/a/eNIH9qI is the progenitor of all gods and all religions from all around the world, existing as the one true original god]. [https://imgur.com/a/AQppUyn Turned all other gods in the pantheon into demons]. [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything]<ref>Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.</ref> [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=171 A single manifestation head is so far beyond all of creation that not even his creations blades can harm him]<ref>The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|observation]] weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying</ref>. [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=85 YHVH is a being who created] [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ infinite universes], [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=70 and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse]. [https://imgur.com/hBzsNkT The multiverse is] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2ZXAZeN3Q&t=19s&ab_channel=davidramons composed of] [https://youtu.be/XvzWQt8jmTA?t=22 information and] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8oNYHRuJw&t=9995s&ab_channel=BuffMaister data], [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1477 further proven with] [[Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)|Stephen]] having attacks that can code beings that the world, this would make SMT a mathematical multiverse falling under the [[Multiverse#Max_Tegmark's_Multiverse|level 4 multiverse]], [https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html a multiverse where every possible mathematical structure and be described at some level], [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ which would include any possible level of reality that can be conceived of using set theory]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. Beings such as [[Metatron]], [https://youtu.be/wH_4Fkwrh2A?t=7m50s are amped by them by in their fight against an] end game [[Demi-fiend]]. His avatar [[Kagutsuchi (Megami Tensei)|Kagutsuchi]], [https://youtu.be/c_t3wbCKCho created and sustains the Vortex world], which was resulted from him [https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Miroku_Scripture erasing the past, present and future of the universe], in order to construct the Vortex World in its foundations. [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1843 Exists as the light that encompasses] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=987 and administers all of creation within the Amala universe that is said to contain countless worlds] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1804 along with being the source to creation] [https://youtu.be/cJ834NlLbgg?t=1411 with his defeat causing the destruction of the Amala universe]. [https://imgur.com/a/isoUifN Merged the Demon World and the Divine World into the remnants of the human realm to create the Vortex World]; the Demon World, best known as the Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 is a higher plane of existence that transcends past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. [[Kagutsuchi (Shin Megami Tensei)|Kagutsuchi]] is capable of empowering the Reason Gods, among which is Ahriman, in order to allow them to reshape the foundation of the Vortex World and birth a new reality. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2255 Noted that Raidou has surpassed even God]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=723 Projected themself as a head very similar in appearance to] [[YHVH]]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2252 Noted themself as a god that Raidou has surpassed], giving off heavy implication that they're on a similar level to [[YHVH]]), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Durability]]:''' '''Building level''' (Can take hits from Agi and Bufu skills), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | '''Universe level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Durability]]:''' '''Building level''' (Can take hits from Agi and Bufu skills), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | '''Universe level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Striking Strength]]:''' '''Building Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | '''Universe Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Striking Strength]]:''' '''Building Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | '''Universe Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Lifting Strength]]:''' '''Athletic Human''' (Able to casually lift his sword and swing it around in combat), '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons (Fury Type demons can [https://youtu.be/egZ1xDp02wY?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=547 move entire cars casually with "Use Force"]) | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons
'''[[Lifting Strength]]:''' '''Athletic Human''' (Able to casually lift his sword and swing it around in combat), '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons (Fury Type demons can [https://youtu.be/egZ1xDp02wY?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=547 move entire cars casually with "Use Force"]) | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons
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'''[[Dimensionality]]:''' '''3-D''', his demons are '''Devoid''' in their true forms
'''[[Dimensionality]]:''' '''3-D''', his demons are '''Devoid''' in their true forms
'''[[Attack Potency]]:''' '''Universe level''' ([https://youtu.be/WT5O6IHWOkM?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=23 Noted by Goutou that his skills have become rusty enough to where] they would have not been able to beat Astaroth. [https://youtu.be/oIo-AWitVZU?list=PLaoKfFfkcXxDucMnrL_bTOB_ZrREyPH61&t=523 Capable of fighting fiends such as] Binbou-gami, who should be comparable to [[Matador]], [https://youtu.be/fgvoSOsMsro?t=6920 who created and sustains his own realm through his own power]. Matador also fought an early game Demi-fiend right before he fights [[Thor (Megami Tensei)|Thor]]; thus, he should be comparable to other demons such as Morax, [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=517 who created] [https://youtu.be/JFbJuVsI3WU?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=781 and rules over his own realm] [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=1580 and controlled the sector], [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=828 being noted] [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=544 to be the energy source] [https://youtu.be/VMJCaN4nv3E?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2201 they were looking for], [https://youtu.be/VMJCaN4nv3E?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2445 said energy source is noted to control the entire sector], [https://youtu.be/VMJCaN4nv3E?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2374 and be linked to the sector like a magnet]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2279&v=VMJCaN4nv3E&feature=youtu.be Each sector is a space-time plane layered atop each other], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMJCaN4nv3E&list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2212s being planes outside of the human worlds local space-time existing in a quantum tunnel], [https://youtu.be/KHbrN8kIyq0?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=946 along with being noted as parallel universes] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbrN8kIyq0&list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2173s and other] [https://imgur.com/a/iAwBHgJ dimensions overlapping being isolated in time and space by enormous power] [https://youtu.be/JFbJuVsI3WU?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=764 being connected by quantum tunnels]), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse level''' ([https://youtu.be/SpJ4M5YRsFE?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=928 Noted by Raiho to be stronger then he was in the last game]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RXwjWa-ISU Where he's fought in new game+]. [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=78 Fought and defeated] [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=64 a full powered] [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=86 serious] Lucifer, [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=162 even in his true angel form], [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=275 noting after their fight that only Raidou can become the spark to change the future determined by] [[YHVH (Megami Tensei)|God]], [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=236 and that he can break free from the strictures of] [[YHVH (Megami Tensei)|His will]]. [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=62 Lucifer assissted] [[Aleph]] in his fight against a single manifestation head of [[YHVH (Megami Tensei)|YHVH]]. [[YHVH]] [https://imgur.com/a/eNIH9qI is the progenitor of all gods and all religions from all around the world, existing as the one true original god]. [https://imgur.com/a/AQppUyn Turned all other gods in the pantheon into demons]. [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything]<ref>Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.</ref> [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=171 A single manifestation head is so far beyond all of creation that not even his creations blades can harm him]<ref>The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|observation]] weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying</ref>. [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=85 YHVH is a being who created] [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ infinite universes], [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=70 and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse]. [https://imgur.com/hBzsNkT The multiverse is] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2ZXAZeN3Q&t=19s&ab_channel=davidramons composed of] [https://youtu.be/XvzWQt8jmTA?t=22 information and] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8oNYHRuJw&t=9995s&ab_channel=BuffMaister data], [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1477 further proven with] [[Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)|Stephen]] having attacks that can code beings that the world, this would make SMT a mathematical multiverse falling under the [[Multiverse#Max_Tegmark's_Multiverse|level 4 multiverse]], [https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html a multiverse where every possible mathematical structure and be described at some level], [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ which would include any possible level of reality that can be conceived of using set theory]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. Beings such as [[Metatron]], [https://youtu.be/wH_4Fkwrh2A?t=7m50s are amped by them by in their fight against an] end game [[Demi-fiend]]. His avatar [[Kagutsuchi (Megami Tensei)|Kagutsuchi]], [https://youtu.be/c_t3wbCKCho created and sustains the Vortex world], which was resulted from him [https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Miroku_Scripture erasing the past, present and future of the universe], in order to construct the Vortex World in its foundations. [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1843 Exists as the light that encompasses] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=987 and administers all of creation within the Amala universe that is said to contain countless worlds] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1804 along with being the source to creation] [https://youtu.be/cJ834NlLbgg?t=1411 with his defeat causing the destruction of the Amala universe]. [https://imgur.com/a/isoUifN Merged the Demon World and the Divine World into the remnants of the human realm to create the Vortex World]; the Demon World, best known as the Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 is a higher plane of existence that transcends past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. Capable of empowering the Reason Gods, among which is Ahriman, in order to allow them to reshape the foundation of the Vortex World and birth a new reality. [https://youtu.be/xQZMby1ii2s?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=45 Fought and defeated] Yakubyou-gami, a fiend considered so massive that a feat of defeating him had Goutou note he was fortunate to have Raidou has his successor. [https://youtu.be/dbe6zkg4UgI?t=42 Fought and defeated the very wrath of] Masakado, [https://youtu.be/dbe6zkg4UgI?t=445 with his original self being consumed by said wrath, making it more powerful then the original] Maskado), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse level''' ([https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=251 Fought and ultimately defeated] [[Shinado]] [https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=76 which Shinado's mere energy is so frightful that it makes Raidou's body and soul tremble], [https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=184 Shinado is the embodiment of the despair that people feel toward the world] [[YHVH]] [https://youtu.be/gCWlCO3iwes?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=740 made wanting to overturn it], [https://youtu.be/gCWlCO3iwes?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=764 and losing hope in him] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWlCO3iwes&list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=666s having them create a realm seperate from the main multiverse, that is filled with people's negative energy]. [https://youtu.be/gCWlCO3iwes?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=788 With opening a gate to this realm requiring one to have complete desapir in God]. [https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=235 As long as one feels despair or hope lost, Shinado gains more and more power]. [https://youtu.be/BuX0bo8PvVQ?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=1016 Noted by the high angel Camael that Raidou's very existence poses a danger to] [[YHVH]]. Proceeded to then fight Camael [https://youtu.be/PvrhVh8QvWs?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=146 who was directly blessed by] [[YHVH]]. [https://youtu.be/44HtTZ5fM8E?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=745 This YHVH in question being the true form in the throne of the heavens]. Where for the true form [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=246 the multiverse and his manifestation head are infinitesimal in size compared to him], and he exists as [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=165 an incomprehensible] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=450 transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation]. [https://youtu.be/L23HK4gdQY0?t=516 His universe is a place beyond reality that is more vague and more infinite then anything the cast has seen before] [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 which includes areas such as the expanse] and Akrana Corridor, and his single manifestation head. Viewed as so immeasurably powerful that the combined cast of SMT IV Apocalypse, [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=526 needed to] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=637 deny his divine nature] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=676 and form understandings] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=853 repeatedly] through the use of [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|obseravtion]] in order to defeat him), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Attack Potency]]:''' '''Universe level''' ([https://youtu.be/WT5O6IHWOkM?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=23 Noted by Goutou that his skills have become rusty enough to where] they would have not been able to beat Astaroth. [https://youtu.be/oIo-AWitVZU?list=PLaoKfFfkcXxDucMnrL_bTOB_ZrREyPH61&t=523 Capable of fighting fiends such as] Binbou-gami, who should be comparable to [[Matador]], [https://youtu.be/fgvoSOsMsro?t=6920 who created and sustains his own realm through his own power]. Matador also fought an early game Demi-fiend right before he fights [[Thor (Megami Tensei)|Thor]]; thus, he should be comparable to other demons such as Morax, [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=517 who created] [https://youtu.be/JFbJuVsI3WU?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=781 and rules over his own realm] [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=1580 and controlled the sector], [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=828 being noted] [https://youtu.be/DBcnBEyAp1c?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=544 to be the energy source] [https://youtu.be/VMJCaN4nv3E?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2201 they were looking for], [https://youtu.be/VMJCaN4nv3E?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2445 said energy source is noted to control the entire sector], [https://youtu.be/VMJCaN4nv3E?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2374 and be linked to the sector like a magnet]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2279&v=VMJCaN4nv3E&feature=youtu.be Each sector is a space-time plane layered atop each other], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMJCaN4nv3E&list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2212s being planes outside of the human worlds local space-time existing in a quantum tunnel], [https://youtu.be/KHbrN8kIyq0?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=946 along with being noted as parallel universes] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbrN8kIyq0&list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=2173s and other] [https://imgur.com/a/iAwBHgJ dimensions overlapping being isolated in time and space by enormous power] [https://youtu.be/JFbJuVsI3WU?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=764 being connected by quantum tunnels]), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse level''' ([https://youtu.be/SpJ4M5YRsFE?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=928 Noted by Raiho to be stronger then he was in the last game]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RXwjWa-ISU Where he's fought in new game+]. [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=78 Fought and defeated] [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=64 a full powered] [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=86 serious] Lucifer, [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=162 even in his true angel form], [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=275 noting after their fight that only Raidou can become the spark to change the future determined by] [[YHVH (Megami Tensei)|God]], [https://youtu.be/CUTHEqc1Hu8?t=236 and that he can break free from the strictures of] [[YHVH (Megami Tensei)|His will]]. [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=62 Lucifer assissted] [[Aleph]] in his fight against a single manifestation head of [[YHVH (Megami Tensei)|YHVH]]. [[YHVH]] [https://imgur.com/a/eNIH9qI is the progenitor of all gods and all religions from all around the world, existing as the one true original god]. [https://imgur.com/a/AQppUyn Turned all other gods in the pantheon into demons]. [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything]<ref>Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.</ref> [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=171 A single manifestation head is so far beyond all of creation that not even his creations blades can harm him]<ref>The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|observation]] weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying</ref>. [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=85 YHVH is a being who created] [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ infinite universes], [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=70 and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse]. [https://imgur.com/hBzsNkT The multiverse is] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2ZXAZeN3Q&t=19s&ab_channel=davidramons composed of] [https://youtu.be/XvzWQt8jmTA?t=22 information and] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8oNYHRuJw&t=9995s&ab_channel=BuffMaister data], [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1477 further proven with] [[Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)|Stephen]] having attacks that can code beings that the world, this would make SMT a mathematical multiverse falling under the [[Multiverse#Max_Tegmark's_Multiverse|level 4 multiverse]], [https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html a multiverse where every possible mathematical structure and be described at some level], [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ which would include any possible level of reality that can be conceived of using set theory]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. Beings such as [[Metatron]], [https://youtu.be/wH_4Fkwrh2A?t=7m50s are amped by them by in their fight against an] end game [[Demi-fiend]]. His avatar [[Kagutsuchi (Megami Tensei)|Kagutsuchi]], [https://youtu.be/c_t3wbCKCho created and sustains the Vortex world], which was resulted from him [https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Miroku_Scripture erasing the past, present and future of the universe], in order to construct the Vortex World in its foundations. [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1843 Exists as the light that encompasses] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=987 and administers all of creation within the Amala universe that is said to contain countless worlds] [https://youtu.be/i7jFy187Fvk?t=1804 along with being the source to creation] [https://youtu.be/cJ834NlLbgg?t=1411 with his defeat causing the destruction of the Amala universe]. [https://imgur.com/a/isoUifN Merged the Demon World and the Divine World into the remnants of the human realm to create the Vortex World]; the Demon World, best known as the Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 is a higher plane of existence that transcends past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. Capable of empowering the Reason Gods, among which is Ahriman, in order to allow them to reshape the foundation of the Vortex World and birth a new reality. [https://youtu.be/xQZMby1ii2s?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=45 Fought and defeated] Yakubyou-gami, a fiend considered so massive that a feat of defeating him had Goutou note he was fortunate to have Raidou has his successor. [https://youtu.be/dbe6zkg4UgI?t=42 Fought and defeated the very wrath of] Masakado, [https://youtu.be/dbe6zkg4UgI?t=445 with his original self being consumed by said wrath, making it more powerful then the original] Maskado), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse level''' ([https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=251 Fought and ultimately defeated] [[Shinado]] [https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=76 which Shinado's mere energy is so frightful that it makes Raidou's body and soul tremble], [https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=184 Shinado is the embodiment of the despair that people feel toward the world] [[YHVH]] [https://youtu.be/gCWlCO3iwes?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=740 made wanting to overturn it], [https://youtu.be/gCWlCO3iwes?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=764 and losing hope in him] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWlCO3iwes&list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=666s having them create a realm seperate from the main multiverse, that is filled with people's negative energy]. [https://youtu.be/gCWlCO3iwes?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=788 With opening a gate to this realm requiring one to have complete desapir in God]. [https://youtu.be/sUlEEZp2ffo?t=235 As long as one feels despair or hope lost, Shinado gains more and more power]. [https://youtu.be/BuX0bo8PvVQ?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=1016 Noted by the high angel Camael that Raidou's very existence poses a danger to] [[YHVH]]. Proceeded to then fight Camael [https://youtu.be/PvrhVh8QvWs?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=146 who was directly blessed by] [[YHVH]]. [https://youtu.be/44HtTZ5fM8E?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=745 This YHVH in question being the true form in the throne of the heavens]. Where for the true form [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=246 the multiverse and his manifestation head are infinitesimal in size compared to him], and he exists as [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=165 an incomprehensible] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=450 transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation]. [https://youtu.be/L23HK4gdQY0?t=516 His universe is a place beyond reality that is more vague and more infinite then anything the cast has seen before] [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 which includes areas such as the expanse] and Akrana Corridor, and his single manifestation head. Viewed as so immeasurably powerful that the combined cast of SMT IV Apocalypse, [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=526 needed to] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=637 deny his divine nature] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=676 and form understandings] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=853 repeatedly] through the use of [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|obseravtion]] in order to defeat him), '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Durability]]:''' '''Universe level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Durability]]:''' '''Universe level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse level''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Striking Strength]]:''' '''Universe Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Cantorverse Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Striking Strength]]:''' '''Universe Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]] | At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiverse Class''', '''Far Higher''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] & [[Willpower (Megami Tensei)|Willpower]]
'''[[Lifting Strength]]:''' '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons (Fury Type demons can [https://youtu.be/egZ1xDp02wY?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=547 move entire cars casually with "Use Force"]) | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons
'''[[Lifting Strength]]:''' '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons (Fury Type demons can [https://youtu.be/egZ1xDp02wY?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=547 move entire cars casually with "Use Force"]) | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons | '''Athletic Human''', '''Class 5''' with Fury Type Demons
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'''[[Stamina]]:''' '''Superhuman''' ([https://youtu.be/U7j4YpvafLc?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=561 Was perfectly fine after not eating or drinking in two days]. [https://youtu.be/IdWGLIQSvOw?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=23 Noted that it was impressive to get back up after only two days after performing a sacred art]. [https://youtu.be/PZ7fT0Xtb_4?t=146 Could chase after] Demi-fiend for a while without getting tired. [https://imgur.com/94e1Z7o Even after having a majority of his MAG drained, he still had the strength to stand up and fight]), His Demons are '''Limitless''' ([https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=194 Demons are noted to have infinite and endless powers unlike humans who are restricted with their limited powers] by Ouroboros [https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=404 the embodiment] [https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=525 of infinity]. Due to their innate physiologies, demons naturally do not need to breathe, eat, or sleep. [https://youtu.be/l4vtvHB2CiM?t=56 Demons such as King Frost can passively produce magic for years upon years] [https://youtu.be/WSOD6232l_Y?t=78 even while fighting enemies] without tiring)
'''[[Stamina]]:''' '''Superhuman''' ([https://youtu.be/U7j4YpvafLc?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=561 Was perfectly fine after not eating or drinking in two days]. [https://youtu.be/IdWGLIQSvOw?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=23 Noted that it was impressive to get back up after only two days after performing a sacred art]. [https://youtu.be/PZ7fT0Xtb_4?t=146 Could chase after] Demi-fiend for a while without getting tired. [https://imgur.com/94e1Z7o Even after having a majority of his MAG drained, he still had the strength to stand up and fight]), His Demons are '''Limitless''' ([https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=194 Demons are noted to have infinite and endless powers unlike humans who are restricted with their limited powers] by Ouroboros [https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=404 the embodiment] [https://youtu.be/spraSlJLBXc?list=PLAV-xzjVBR0UtRCaE75gwmT465Rq_PTQ0&t=525 of infinity]. Due to their innate physiologies, demons naturally do not need to breathe, eat, or sleep. [https://youtu.be/l4vtvHB2CiM?t=56 Demons such as King Frost can passively produce magic for years upon years] [https://youtu.be/WSOD6232l_Y?t=78 even while fighting enemies] without tiring)
'''[[Range]]:''' '''Standard Melee''', '''Extended Melee''' with Blades, '''Hundreds of Meters''' with Firearms, '''Kilometers''' with demons like [[Jack Frost]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Www2PluTdOA Could create an entire snowstorm that instantly darkened the entire sky]), '''Planetary''' with demons like [[Jack Frost|King Frost]] ([https://youtu.be/B1y-LMn7zkk?t=162 It is noted that King Frost has the power to freeze the entire world]), '''Cross-Dimensional''' for his demons ([https://imgur.com/a/lqQRrE8 Demons passively create adecoherence field, that is essentially a special dimension of quantum fluctuation that they exist in, where humans cannot see them], and can attack from there. [https://youtu.be/KYU8J4N80Lw?t=6825 Demons can also create mirage realms], [https://youtu.be/KYU8J4N80Lw?t=7150 that shroud an entire area in mist], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FV51PZ1ds&t=1802s with them being able to attack from inside said illusion without being capable of being attacked back], [https://youtu.be/p5FV51PZ1ds?t=2248 requiring the user to go inside of their illusion to fight them]), '''Low Complex Multiversal''' with [[Dimensional Travel]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2eCPhthFg&t=445s Able to travel to alternative universes] [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=352 and can cross dimensions], [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ which there are infinite of], through the use of the Akrana Corridor, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themself otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]), At least '''Cantorversal''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] ([https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=490 Can affect beings such as] [[YHVH]] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=526 through their observation]. [[YHVH]] [https://imgur.com/a/eNIH9qI is the progenitor of all gods and all religions from all around the world, existing as the one true original god]. [https://imgur.com/a/AQppUyn Turned all other gods in the pantheon into demons]. [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything]<ref>Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.</ref> [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=171 A single manifestation head is so far beyond all of creation that not even his creations blades can harm him]<ref>The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|observation]] weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying</ref>. [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=85 YHVH is a being who created] [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ infinite universes], [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=70 and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse]. [https://imgur.com/hBzsNkT The multiverse is] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2ZXAZeN3Q&t=19s&ab_channel=davidramons composed of] [https://youtu.be/XvzWQt8jmTA?t=22 information and] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8oNYHRuJw&t=9995s&ab_channel=BuffMaister data], [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1477 further proven with] [[Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)|Stephen]] having attacks that can code beings that the world, this would make SMT a mathematical multiverse falling under the [[Multiverse#Max_Tegmark's_Multiverse|level 4 multiverse]], [https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html a multiverse where eevery possible mathematical structure and be described at some level], [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ which would include any possible level of reality that can be conceived of using set theory]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. The true form views [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=246 the multiverse and his manifestation head are infinitesimal in size compared to him], and he exists as [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=165 an incomprehensible] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=450 transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation]. [https://youtu.be/L23HK4gdQY0?t=516 His universe is a place beyond reality that is more vague and more infinite then anything the cast has seen before] [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 which includes areas such as the expanse] and Akrana Corridor, and his single manifestation head. Along with this, [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1862 humans observation has the potential to exceed] [[The Axiom]], [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html who exists in a realm beyond every other realm prior]<Ref>Shioda: Is it correct to think that humanity was created by the Great Reason rather than by the gods?<br>Yamai: In the beginning, I believe, pure humans were made as observers of the universe. Then, as time passed, gods and polytheism appeared as the result of their perception of the surrounding world.<br>Miyata: Nozomi says at some point that it’s all right for people to be unsure, but in the underground it is believed that the gods are one of the answers hypothesised by humans. From her point of view, the gods are a symbol of the ideal imagined by humans and the perfect form envisioned by them as their target, their final point. Monotheism, on the other hand, only has one final target, but there are many ideals to pursue. This is tied to Nozomi’s lines above. It’s all right if there are bad guys and if there are good people, there will also be fickle ones. Nozomi’s credo is that everyone should choose their own destination.<br>Yamai: Even when talking about the creation of the universe, I think the birth of the Great Reason is beyond our ideals. The universe we can observe stretches over 130 billion light years, but we don’t know how it managed to appear from nothing. Gods like Izanagi, who birthed out of his eyes and nose, were perhaps a symbol of a farming culture, but they had a power that surpassed the humans’ power of understanding and I dare say that in the case of the Great Reason too, if emotions were to arise, those emotions themselves would become gods. I’m talking about that kind of creation. For example, the wish to be worshipped gave birth to [[YHVH]], or seeing the fights between humans signified the appearance of Lucifer. I think this is similar to the trends and movements born out of people’s shared consciousness nowadays. Let’s look at Japan’s concept of cuteness: if it spread throughout the whole world, maybe it would lead to the birth of a new god. I had this vague thought that the backbone of the Great Reason would begin like a pure baby who would pick up various emotions through touch, gradually learning about its surroundings.<br>Shioda: So it’s something along the lines of a god born out of the collective unconscious which came from shared awareness?<br>Yamai: That’s right, don’t you all just love it? (laughs)<br>Miyata: I certainly think there is some sort of huge collective unconscious, but I never really thought it might be connected to the Great Reason. And speaking of shared awareness, the scale would be quite small depending on the surroundings; the Japanese would have their shared awareness, but it would be different from that of foreigners. For example, even if the Japanese saw themselves as without religion, they’d look Buddhist to foreigners. This kind of thing leads me to think that the Great Reason is not at the surface of shared awareness, but belongs instead to an extremely deep part of the origin.<br>Shioda: I personally think that the term ‘bunrei’ [spirit divisions] often used to name gods in the story is extremely important in this game. The Great Reason is the origin. Does that make [[YHVH]] and all the other gods ‘bunrei’?<br>Yamai: Yes, it does. I think we can explain the existence of ‘bunrei’ through polytheism resulted from human perception. In the Celtic world, the druids saw Dagda as the forefather of sorcerers, but this was different for the Norse people or the Germanic culture. The people of each civilisation would see things as it fit them, so we got Odin instead. ‘Bunrei’ are born like this, but then again, treating Dagda and Odin as identical is wrong. Their powers and responsibilities are different, so it’s better for them to be thought of as different entities. Let’s have a look at [[YHVH]]: when he was born, humans perhaps observed [[YHVH]] himself, but once the scriptures were written, Uriel would be the one to be noticed and maybe that’s why he made so many appearances in their pages. Uriel frequently appearing as [[YHVH]]’s messenger also kind of feels like an accessory that comes to the front in order to preserve [[YHVH]]’s solemnity. But that is the result of the perception of later people, so we can also say that Uriel is a part [bunrei] of [[YHVH]].</ref>)
'''[[Range]]:''' '''Standard Melee''', '''Extended Melee''' with Blades, '''Hundreds of Meters''' with Firearms, '''Kilometers''' with demons like [[Jack Frost]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Www2PluTdOA Could create an entire snowstorm that instantly darkened the entire sky]), '''Planetary''' with demons like [[Jack Frost|King Frost]] ([https://youtu.be/B1y-LMn7zkk?t=162 It is noted that King Frost has the power to freeze the entire world]), '''Cross-Dimensional''' for his demons ([https://imgur.com/a/lqQRrE8 Demons passively create adecoherence field, that is essentially a special dimension of quantum fluctuation that they exist in, where humans cannot see them], and can attack from there. [https://youtu.be/KYU8J4N80Lw?t=6825 Demons can also create mirage realms], [https://youtu.be/KYU8J4N80Lw?t=7150 that shroud an entire area in mist], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FV51PZ1ds&t=1802s with them being able to attack from inside said illusion without being capable of being attacked back], [https://youtu.be/p5FV51PZ1ds?t=2248 requiring the user to go inside of their illusion to fight them]), '''Low Complex Multiversal''' with [[Dimensional Travel]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2eCPhthFg&t=445s Able to travel to alternative universes] [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=352 and can cross dimensions], [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ which there are infinite of], through the use of the Akrana Corridor, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themself otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]), At least '''Meta Hierarchal Multiversal''' with [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|Observation]] ([https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=490 Can affect beings such as] [[YHVH]] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=526 through their observation]. [[YHVH]] [https://imgur.com/a/eNIH9qI is the progenitor of all gods and all religions from all around the world, existing as the one true original god]. [https://imgur.com/a/AQppUyn Turned all other gods in the pantheon into demons]. [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html He is viewed as an omnipotent existence that created everything]<ref>Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.</ref> [https://youtu.be/sBJn2IrfER4?t=171 A single manifestation head is so far beyond all of creation that not even his creations blades can harm him]<ref>The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's [[Observation (Megami Tensei)|observation]] weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying</ref>. [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=85 YHVH is a being who created] [http://shmuplations.com/smt/ infinite universes], [https://youtu.be/ijJFkJ6l058?t=70 and exists beyond the very boundaries of time within the multiverse]. [https://imgur.com/hBzsNkT The multiverse is] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2ZXAZeN3Q&t=19s&ab_channel=davidramons composed of] [https://youtu.be/XvzWQt8jmTA?t=22 information and] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8oNYHRuJw&t=9995s&ab_channel=BuffMaister data], [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1477 further proven with] [[Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)|Stephen]] having attacks that can code beings that the world, this would make SMT a mathematical multiverse falling under the [[Multiverse#Max_Tegmark's_Multiverse|level 4 multiverse]], [https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html a multiverse where eevery possible mathematical structure and be described at some level], [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ which would include any possible level of reality that can be conceived of using set theory]. Which would include planes such as Akarana Corridor [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=957 a void that transcends time and space], [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=886 with it requiring a special ritual to enter], where even the Herald of Yatagarasu cannot put Raidou into this place<ref>The Herald of Yatagarsu is [https://youtu.be/SJhzC5B5HGA?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=727 capable of teleporting Raidou into] The Expanse, [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse] but cannot even reach this realm, along with this she [https://imgur.com/a/PxAg9xW exists a plane not apart of the human world], further showing how out of reach this plane is, [https://youtu.be/haOVB8wCagU?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1043 it requires one normally to discard their human form and transcribe themselves otherwise they are threatened with being unstuck from time]</ref>, putting it beyond even The Expanse [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 a place that transcends the past, present, and future] [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=98 of the multiverse]. The true form views [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=246 the multiverse and his manifestation head are infinitesimal in size compared to him], and he exists as [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=165 an incomprehensible] [https://youtu.be/dFuKLmruIzQ?t=450 transcendent being overseeing everything in his creation]. [https://youtu.be/L23HK4gdQY0?t=516 His universe is a place beyond reality that is more vague and more infinite then anything the cast has seen before] [https://youtu.be/8kNv01GNrpE?t=104 which includes areas such as the expanse] and Akrana Corridor, and his single manifestation head. Along with this, [https://youtu.be/defQEm1-C3g?t=1862 humans observation has the potential to exceed] [[The Axiom]], [https://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2016/08/apocalypse-artbook.html who exists in a realm beyond every other realm prior]<Ref>Shioda: Is it correct to think that humanity was created by the Great Reason rather than by the gods?<br>Yamai: In the beginning, I believe, pure humans were made as observers of the universe. Then, as time passed, gods and polytheism appeared as the result of their perception of the surrounding world.<br>Miyata: Nozomi says at some point that it’s all right for people to be unsure, but in the underground it is believed that the gods are one of the answers hypothesised by humans. From her point of view, the gods are a symbol of the ideal imagined by humans and the perfect form envisioned by them as their target, their final point. Monotheism, on the other hand, only has one final target, but there are many ideals to pursue. This is tied to Nozomi’s lines above. It’s all right if there are bad guys and if there are good people, there will also be fickle ones. Nozomi’s credo is that everyone should choose their own destination.<br>Yamai: Even when talking about the creation of the universe, I think the birth of the Great Reason is beyond our ideals. The universe we can observe stretches over 130 billion light years, but we don’t know how it managed to appear from nothing. Gods like Izanagi, who birthed out of his eyes and nose, were perhaps a symbol of a farming culture, but they had a power that surpassed the humans’ power of understanding and I dare say that in the case of the Great Reason too, if emotions were to arise, those emotions themselves would become gods. I’m talking about that kind of creation. For example, the wish to be worshipped gave birth to [[YHVH]], or seeing the fights between humans signified the appearance of Lucifer. I think this is similar to the trends and movements born out of people’s shared consciousness nowadays. Let’s look at Japan’s concept of cuteness: if it spread throughout the whole world, maybe it would lead to the birth of a new god. I had this vague thought that the backbone of the Great Reason would begin like a pure baby who would pick up various emotions through touch, gradually learning about its surroundings.<br>Shioda: So it’s something along the lines of a god born out of the collective unconscious which came from shared awareness?<br>Yamai: That’s right, don’t you all just love it? (laughs)<br>Miyata: I certainly think there is some sort of huge collective unconscious, but I never really thought it might be connected to the Great Reason. And speaking of shared awareness, the scale would be quite small depending on the surroundings; the Japanese would have their shared awareness, but it would be different from that of foreigners. For example, even if the Japanese saw themselves as without religion, they’d look Buddhist to foreigners. This kind of thing leads me to think that the Great Reason is not at the surface of shared awareness, but belongs instead to an extremely deep part of the origin.<br>Shioda: I personally think that the term ‘bunrei’ [spirit divisions] often used to name gods in the story is extremely important in this game. The Great Reason is the origin. Does that make [[YHVH]] and all the other gods ‘bunrei’?<br>Yamai: Yes, it does. I think we can explain the existence of ‘bunrei’ through polytheism resulted from human perception. In the Celtic world, the druids saw Dagda as the forefather of sorcerers, but this was different for the Norse people or the Germanic culture. The people of each civilisation would see things as it fit them, so we got Odin instead. ‘Bunrei’ are born like this, but then again, treating Dagda and Odin as identical is wrong. Their powers and responsibilities are different, so it’s better for them to be thought of as different entities. Let’s have a look at [[YHVH]]: when he was born, humans perhaps observed [[YHVH]] himself, but once the scriptures were written, Uriel would be the one to be noticed and maybe that’s why he made so many appearances in their pages. Uriel frequently appearing as [[YHVH]]’s messenger also kind of feels like an accessory that comes to the front in order to preserve [[YHVH]]’s solemnity. But that is the result of the perception of later people, so we can also say that Uriel is a part [bunrei] of [[YHVH]].</ref>)
'''[[Intelligence]]:''' '''[[Genius Intelligence|Extraordinary Genius]]''' ([https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=752 Succeeded in the Kuzunhoa training hall], [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=206 where people wishing to become Devil Summoners risk their lives] [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=217 with exmplery spirits equal to even Raidou falling here]. [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=333 The basics of combat are little but child's play to Raidou]. [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=693 Can defeat] Pgn Okiku-mushi, [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=680 whose killed over hundreds of devil summoners]. A skilled and trained dectective [https://youtu.be/Yga8TOFC5nw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1647 at a young age] apart of a dectective agency [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1019 where there's no caper they can't solve]. [https://youtu.be/RcS_yQPihkw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=913 Defeated] Tsuchigumo [https://youtu.be/RcS_yQPihkw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=844 when he was ambushed and he purposefully lured Raidou to him for the ambush]. [https://youtu.be/PZ7fT0Xtb_4?t=327 Could chase down] Demi-fiend easily even after Demi-fiend set up multiple walls and such to block his entires, [https://youtu.be/eT69uzcI98Y?t=870 with Goutou even noting he could chase one down in his sleep]. [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=315 An alternate timeline version of himself views] [[Keiji Minegishi]] having to use machinery to summon demons as pathetic]. [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=328 Him fighting Keiji Minegishi & Nemissa is to him "stretching his muscles" and testing his skills]. [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=357 Calls himself a senior summoner in comparisson to the Keiji and Nemissa]. [https://youtu.be/kRBe2n8uV1M?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=328 Defeated a] Frost Tarrasque, [https://youtu.be/kRBe2n8uV1M?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=229 who has several thousands of years of experience]. [https://youtu.be/KSPO3i5U680?t=534 Raidou was capable of quickly figuring out that something was up with Lucifer disguised as an old man's request to him, requiring him to dig deeper], [https://youtu.be/ksdX_XQwNew?t=256 through this investigation he learned that Lucifer was setting up all the fiends to fight in a battle to the death battle royale] [https://youtu.be/PZ7fT0Xtb_4?t=756 along with this, he vouched for Demi-fiend's innocence]. [https://youtu.be/gfkUtvYyUjc?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=467 Could tell who a cane belonged to from a glance]. [https://imgur.com/a/Eq34Ud0 Against a demon that could camoflague himself, Raidou tricked him into thinking he was firign at him when he was firing erratically to shoot the glass so he could find the camoflagued demon]. [https://imgur.com/a/1j1CmWM Could easily defeat a kendo third dan in a kendo match]. [https://imgur.com/a/jrlrDcu Could note subtle differences in the way the Alice mirrors moved to tell which one wasn't a mirror, after realizing it was a trap and that none of the Alice's he saw was the real Alice, he was able to deduce the real Alice was the card he saw]. [https://youtu.be/jgiwayxrauc?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2216 Noted by] Goutou that he's watched every Raidou Kuzunoha since the 2nd and Raidou is the finest of them all. In his fight with [[Raidou Kuzunoha the XL]] [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=532 they noted he had such power and skill, being a Raidou born and bred]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=655 Defeated Raidou Kuzunoha the XL possessing Kaya, which should make them superior to all other 48 Raidous that have gotten this title]. [https://youtu.be/DVHr0ILL2pA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=706 Went back to the training hall and casually passed every test]. [https://youtu.be/WT5O6IHWOkM?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=588 Can perfectly replicate a person and how they act, even when he just met them]. Was capable of fighting enemies and bosses [https://youtu.be/eWY3AL0bJks?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=792 even with his luck completely drained]. [https://youtu.be/0du5AD4l-yw?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=1 It is noted that Raidou can "fight his luck" allowing him to fight and win even in situations where his luck is against him]. [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=317 Fought and defeated] Cybele, [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=233 who easily defeated a train devil summoner] Nagi, [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=246 saying she didn't even bring little challenge]. [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=543 Noted that his fighting style is balanced, just like his way of life]. [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=691 Along with being noted at the end of the fight that he has what it takes to wield Cybele's power]. Nagi [https://youtu.be/wwtspTRc96c?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=272 herself notes that there is no process she can use to so much as match her skills]. [https://youtu.be/C7zsrWp-Q78?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=578 Was able to find Tae in Ishigami-Cho without her mentioning she was in that section of the Capital, with her even commending Raidou and Narumi's detective work]. [https://youtu.be/vqfK-dQ-N6I?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=23 Could tell a demon was hiding as a human]. [https://youtu.be/jfcYMXzApyY?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=600 Noted by Mikaboshi that Raidou is a brilliant summoner]. [https://youtu.be/vBZhbpAcyAo?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=287 Fought and defeated an all-out Devil Summoner] Geirin Kuzunoha, [https://youtu.be/RHB-Xa71qcE?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=585 who was noted by Goutou to be one of the Four Great Summoners], [https://youtu.be/mywDCLx7c_U?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=623 along with this a weakened and near-dead Geirin, defeated on his own the past 14 members of the Geirin Kuzunoha clan]. [https://youtu.be/vBZhbpAcyAo?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=616 Noted by Geirin after their duel that he does the name and position of Raidou Kuzunoha proud]. [https://youtu.be/vBZhbpAcyAo?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=1025 Geirin also notes there is no process that would allow him to match Raidou's defense of the Capital]. [https://youtu.be/RHB-Xa71qcE?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=500 Noted that Raidou has surpassed generations of Geirin Kuzunohas]. Maskado [https://youtu.be/dbe6zkg4UgI?t=555 notes Raidou's skill is undeniable])
'''[[Intelligence]]:''' '''[[Genius Intelligence|Extraordinary Genius]]''' ([https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=752 Succeeded in the Kuzunhoa training hall], [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=206 where people wishing to become Devil Summoners risk their lives] [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=217 with exmplery spirits equal to even Raidou falling here]. [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=333 The basics of combat are little but child's play to Raidou]. [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=693 Can defeat] Pgn Okiku-mushi, [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=680 whose killed over hundreds of devil summoners]. A skilled and trained dectective [https://youtu.be/Yga8TOFC5nw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1647 at a young age] apart of a dectective agency [https://youtu.be/qx5b3hFhTCQ?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=1019 where there's no caper they can't solve]. [https://youtu.be/RcS_yQPihkw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=913 Defeated] Tsuchigumo [https://youtu.be/RcS_yQPihkw?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=844 when he was ambushed and he purposefully lured Raidou to him for the ambush]. [https://youtu.be/PZ7fT0Xtb_4?t=327 Could chase down] Demi-fiend easily even after Demi-fiend set up multiple walls and such to block his entires, [https://youtu.be/eT69uzcI98Y?t=870 with Goutou even noting he could chase one down in his sleep]. [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=315 An alternate timeline version of himself views] [[Keiji Minegishi]] having to use machinery to summon demons as pathetic]. [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=328 Him fighting Keiji Minegishi & Nemissa is to him "stretching his muscles" and testing his skills]. [https://youtu.be/2D7ASnaf77M?t=357 Calls himself a senior summoner in comparisson to the Keiji and Nemissa]. [https://youtu.be/kRBe2n8uV1M?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=328 Defeated a] Frost Tarrasque, [https://youtu.be/kRBe2n8uV1M?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=229 who has several thousands of years of experience]. [https://youtu.be/KSPO3i5U680?t=534 Raidou was capable of quickly figuring out that something was up with Lucifer disguised as an old man's request to him, requiring him to dig deeper], [https://youtu.be/ksdX_XQwNew?t=256 through this investigation he learned that Lucifer was setting up all the fiends to fight in a battle to the death battle royale] [https://youtu.be/PZ7fT0Xtb_4?t=756 along with this, he vouched for Demi-fiend's innocence]. [https://youtu.be/gfkUtvYyUjc?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=467 Could tell who a cane belonged to from a glance]. [https://imgur.com/a/Eq34Ud0 Against a demon that could camoflague himself, Raidou tricked him into thinking he was firign at him when he was firing erratically to shoot the glass so he could find the camoflagued demon]. [https://imgur.com/a/1j1CmWM Could easily defeat a kendo third dan in a kendo match]. [https://imgur.com/a/jrlrDcu Could note subtle differences in the way the Alice mirrors moved to tell which one wasn't a mirror, after realizing it was a trap and that none of the Alice's he saw was the real Alice, he was able to deduce the real Alice was the card he saw]. [https://youtu.be/jgiwayxrauc?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=2216 Noted by] Goutou that he's watched every Raidou Kuzunoha since the 2nd and Raidou is the finest of them all. In his fight with [[Raidou Kuzunoha the XL]] [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=532 they noted he had such power and skill, being a Raidou born and bred]. [https://youtu.be/pZqz4K-A4Ps?list=PLZ-IDxWdqee_02DqvdXSdY3BjrLzAaxAY&t=655 Defeated Raidou Kuzunoha the XL possessing Kaya, which should make them superior to all other 48 Raidous that have gotten this title]. [https://youtu.be/DVHr0ILL2pA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=706 Went back to the training hall and casually passed every test]. [https://youtu.be/WT5O6IHWOkM?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=588 Can perfectly replicate a person and how they act, even when he just met them]. Was capable of fighting enemies and bosses [https://youtu.be/eWY3AL0bJks?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=792 even with his luck completely drained]. [https://youtu.be/0du5AD4l-yw?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=1 It is noted that Raidou can "fight his luck" allowing him to fight and win even in situations where his luck is against him]. [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=317 Fought and defeated] Cybele, [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=233 who easily defeated a train devil summoner] Nagi, [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=246 saying she didn't even bring little challenge]. [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=543 Noted that his fighting style is balanced, just like his way of life]. [https://youtu.be/S6B366FiCoA?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=691 Along with being noted at the end of the fight that he has what it takes to wield Cybele's power]. Nagi [https://youtu.be/wwtspTRc96c?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=272 herself notes that there is no process she can use to so much as match her skills]. [https://youtu.be/C7zsrWp-Q78?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=578 Was able to find Tae in Ishigami-Cho without her mentioning she was in that section of the Capital, with her even commending Raidou and Narumi's detective work]. [https://youtu.be/vqfK-dQ-N6I?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=23 Could tell a demon was hiding as a human]. [https://youtu.be/jfcYMXzApyY?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=600 Noted by Mikaboshi that Raidou is a brilliant summoner]. [https://youtu.be/vBZhbpAcyAo?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=287 Fought and defeated an all-out Devil Summoner] Geirin Kuzunoha, [https://youtu.be/RHB-Xa71qcE?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=585 who was noted by Goutou to be one of the Four Great Summoners], [https://youtu.be/mywDCLx7c_U?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=623 along with this a weakened and near-dead Geirin, defeated on his own the past 14 members of the Geirin Kuzunoha clan]. [https://youtu.be/vBZhbpAcyAo?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=616 Noted by Geirin after their duel that he does the name and position of Raidou Kuzunoha proud]. [https://youtu.be/vBZhbpAcyAo?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=1025 Geirin also notes there is no process that would allow him to match Raidou's defense of the Capital]. [https://youtu.be/RHB-Xa71qcE?list=PLk42cv8sI9I9o8hCBCC-MUW9qdXZ1UGfA&t=500 Noted that Raidou has surpassed generations of Geirin Kuzunohas]. Maskado [https://youtu.be/dbe6zkg4UgI?t=555 notes Raidou's skill is undeniable])
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~ Raidou doing the spiritual ritual to reach the Akarana Corridor
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A Devil Summoner does not yield to a demon.
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You've done well.
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~ Raidou to Nagi
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"Counting on you!"
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~ When using Mishaguji Raiden
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"Summon!"
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~ When using Hitokoto Storm
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"Moh Shuvuu!"
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~ When using Raptor Guardian
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"Come, Mokoi!"
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~ When using Mokoi Boomerang
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"Gouto."
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~ When using Provoke
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To the public, he is merely a detective from the Narumi Detective Agency. To the underworld, he is Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV, a Devil Summoner who protects the captial under the Herald of Yatagarasu's orders. His partner is a black cat named Gouto.
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~ Raidou's Profile Lore in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
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Enough with the distraction. We're on a case, remember?
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Et tu, Gouto?
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Are you sure, Gouto?
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I see. ...Then I will hold nothing back, for the sake of the future.
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Heh. You certainly are an odd fellow... Though, I must say, that idea has piqued my interest as well...
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DOUBLE SUMMON!
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I wanted to train you, but it is I who has learned something new from this experience. I thank you.
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That's enough, you two. We still have a case to solve.
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B-But, I can't abandon my duty...
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Indeed it was. I will remember you. Now, if you'll just pardon me...
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is the protagonist's nickname of the Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha series.
This dropdown contains the synopsis of Raidou Kuzunoha XIV’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is a young student of the Yumizuki High School who was trained in the Kuzunoha village in the art of the Devil Summoner. Once he was ready, he undertook the trials at the nameless shrine in the heart of the Shinoda mountains and became the fourteenth Raidou Kuzunoha. He was assigned a partner by the Herald of Yatagarasu named Gouto, a sarcastic talking cat who was to guide Raidou in the ways of a Devil Summoner, and was sent to work part-time at the Narumi Detective Agency as a cover for his true task.
As the newest Raidou Kuzunoha, it is his duty to protect the capital from the demons of the Dark Realm and ensure that the supernatural world is kept in check. His abilities with a katana are without equal, and his skill with a pistol is unmatched, but Raidou's true power comes from the demons tucked away in confinement tubes beneath his cape.
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is the newest member of a line of summoners who have claimed the title of "Raidou Kuzunoha." Originally a student at the Yumizuki Imperial High School, Raidou went through extensive training until he was ready to undergo a series of trials at the Nameless Shrine in the Shinoda Mountains, where he earned his title. The Herald of Yatagarasu assigned a talking cat named Gouto-Douji to watch over him. Raidou Kuzunoha uses a katana, revolver and demon tubes known as kuda to capture and use demons for detective work as well as protection.
Raidou Kuzunoha is assigned to protect the capital from various supernatural dangers. He works out of the Narumi Detective Agency in Tsukudo-Cho, under the watch of Shouhei Narumi. Raidou was contacted by Kaya Daidouji, who wanted to hire him to kill her in order to prevent her from being controlled by her demonic blood. While talking to Raidou, Kaya was kidnapped by mysterious soldiers in red armor.
Raidou continued investigating the case of the mysterious girl, until it lead him to the Daidouji Manor, in which he met Kaya's uncle Kiyoshi. After uncovering information about a curse on the Daidouji family, Raidou witnessed Kiyoshi transforming into a monster called a "Red Cape." When Raidou began to pursue Kiyoshi, he was stopped by a mysterious rogue Devil Summoner, who summoned Ichimokuren in an effort to stop Raidou from interfering.
In this prequel novel, Raidou Kuzunoha XIV is revealed to have actually been named Jōhei. Raidou was a student of Yumizuki Imperial High School before becoming the apprentice to Shouhei Narumi. He wields a katana called Muramasa.
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV returns as the protagonist of the fourth Devil Summoner game. He returns to shrine in Shinoda and undergoes retraining in preparation for returning to work for the Herald of Yatagarasu. Gotou-Douji returns in order to provide guidance in the same capacity as he did in the first game. Gotou unseals some of Raidou's abilities to allow him to summon two demons at once, and Raidou returns to work as the capital's guardian, seeking out the new disturbances that were detected by the Herald of Yatagarasu. Raidou once again winds up working with Shouhei Narumi and Tae Asakura.
In this sequel, Raidou and Narumi were asked by a young woman by the name of Akane Narita to find a man by the name of Dahn. Following the clues, he managed to unveil that Dahn is related to the mysterious murders and suicides that are happening in the capital. As he continues to solve the mystery even further, he was stopped by a group of masked man, the Fukoshi. As they released a mysterious insect which is called the Luck Locust, Raidou had his luck drained and had to battle against Binbou-Gami and eventually lost.
The series occurs after the events of Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon, where Raidou continues his job of protecting the capital while working in the Narumi Detective Agency. He becomes involved in the case of the Lone Marebito after incidents involving humans becoming demons or summoning demons at the cost of their lives start to appear.
Raidou Kuzunoha XIV appears in the Nocturne Chronicle Edition and the HD Remaster, replacing Dante in his role as a recruitable ally. Despite not being the protagonist of the game, Raidou remains silent, with Gouto speaking in his stead.
At the start of the fifth Kalpa, Raidou also stops to have a chat with the Demi-fiend and recognizes his skills from the previous two times they clashed across the game. Raidou and Gotou offer to team up with the Demi-fiend and offer him a deal with a little gamble. Raidou produces two different mahjong tiles and the Demi-fiend is to guess left or right. If the tile he picks is the 9 tile, the Demi-fiend gains 100,000 Macca, but if he picks the 1 tile, he only gets 1. The 9 tile always ends up on the left.
Most of his in-game skills parallel Dante's from the original, but have new names. The differences between their skill repertoires are that Dante can learn the conversation passive "Intimidate," but Raidou instead uses the milder "Arbitration," also the counterpart of Dante's "Son's Oath," called "Raidou the Aeon," possesses the additional effect of Pierce, making him viable in the battle against the ultimate boss.
Raidou is mentioned in Pre-Conception Tokyo, where he is described by a passerby as "a pretty school kid all dressed up in black, with a cat." The same NPC mentions that he has "seen" Raidou somewhere else before. Unlike Dante, he did receive an ending cutscene, where he and Goutou go back to his world. Goutou is then seen typing about their experiences in the Vortex World.
Raidou appears alongside Gouto-Douji and his alternate self Raido Kuzunoha the XIV in Soul Hackers as bonus bosses in the EX Dungeon, after defeating "Kyouji Kuzonoha." Raidou and Raido are both voiced by Tomokazu Sugita in the Japanese version.
Lifting Strength:Athletic Human (Able to casually lift his sword and swing it around in combat), Class 5 with Fury Type Demons (Fury Type demons can move entire cars casually with "Use Force") | Athletic Human, Class 5 with Fury Type Demons | Athletic Human, Class 5 with Fury Type Demons
Travel Speed:Superhuman (Shown in the intro to outrun Goutou at full speed. Traveled across large sessions of the town on foot in under a day) | Superhuman | Superhuman
Katana: He wields a katana on his side noticeable underneath his cloak that he can use deftly in combat. Raiou can use this in conjunction with his revolver and demons to overwhelm the opponent greatly. Along with this, he can use his katana with a demon for a powerful combination attack.
Raidou's katana as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Swords:
Different types of swords used by Raidou, using Sword Alchemy.
Swords
Sword Type
Renki: The sword used as the basis for all Sword Fusion. New swords can only be made by acquiring more.
Bizen-osafune: Bizen-Osafune, also known as Osafune, Bizen Blade and Bizen Dagger, is a weapon in the series.
Kotetsu: Kotetsu is a weapon in the series.
Muramasa: Weapons forged by the swordsmith Muramasa. These weapons were often rumored to be cursed and that blood must be drawn when using one, otherwise death awaited the wielder.
Youmetsutou: The weapon that must be forged in chapter five to harm the Apollyon. After losing the first Apollyon, a piece of Mottle Skin is left behind and brought to Dr. Victor. He seeks to create a sword that bypasses the regenerating power of the Apollyon, but requires that the Ritual of Unsealing be performed in order to acquire the Shukukon-Seki from Amatsu Mikaboshi. The sword is forged through Sword Fusion and used by Raidou to defeat the Apollyon.
Masamune: Masamune is a weapon in the series.
Usumidori: Usumidori is a weapon in the series.
Kanshou: Kanshou and Bakuya or Gan Jiang and Mo Ye are weapons in the series.
Bakuya: Kanshou and Bakuya or Gan Jiang and Mo Ye are weapons in the series.
Tentei Sword: Tentei Sword is a weapon in the series.
Kusanagi: Kusanagi, also known as Kusanagi Tsurugi, is a weapon in the series.
Onigiri: Onigiri is a weapon in the series.
Kurikara: Kurikara also known as Kurikara's Sword, Kurikara's Kodachi, and Kurikara's Blade, is a weapon in the series.
Murakumo: Murakumo is a weapon in the series.
Kikouseiken: Kikouseiken is a weapon in the series.
Laevateinn: Lævateinn is the sword of fire and light wielded by Surt.
Hinokagutsuchi: The Homusubi Crystal, which can be obtained from Kagutsuchi as a fusion or leveling gift, is required to create the Kagutsuchi Sword.
Masakados: A sword that can only be fused on New Game Plus by using blaze steel and Mirror of Sun after beating Masakado. It's ability is Super Drain, which allows Raidou to drain even more MAG than usual from frail stunned enemies. Blaze Steel is obtained upon beating Masakado in the Case File Guardian of the Capital and Mirror of the Sun in Hifumi's Medicine.
Spear Type
Himezuru: Himezuru is a weapon in the series.
Kanesada: Kanesada is a weapon in the series.
Kogarasamaru: Kogarasumaru is a weapon in the series. The Kogarasu Maru, or "Little Crow Circle," is a unique Japanese sword believed to have been created by legendary Japanese smith Amakuni Yasutsuna in the 8th century. Though unsigned, the blade is believed to have been made in either the early Heian period or late Nara period.
Shichishitou: Shichishitou is a weapon in the series.
Kogitsune: Kogitsune and Kogitsune Kage are weapons in the series. Meaning "little/baby fox", Kogitsune was a sword forged by Munechika with the aid of the Inari.
Kogitsune Kage: Kogitsune and Kogitsune Kage are weapons in the series. Meaning "little/baby fox", Kogitsune was a sword forged by Munechika with the aid of the Inari.
Raikiri: Raikiri is a weapon in the series. Raikiri can be obtained in the Case File The Prince of Darkness.
Plasma Sword: Plasma Sword is a weapon in the series. Plasma Sword is based on plasma weapons seen in fiction, which harness plasma.
Sol Blade: Sol Blade and Sol Knife are weapons in the series. A weapon that harnesses the power of the sun and is used in fantasy stories.
Luna Blade: Luna Blade, also known as Luna Knife and Sin Blade, is a weapon in the series. A weapon that harnesses the power of the moon and is used in fantasy stories.
Gae Bolg: Gae Bolg is a weapon in the series. Gae Bolg is the legendary weapon of Cu Chulainn, which was given to him by his master Scathach.
Futsu Mitama: Futsuno Mitama is a weapon in the series. Known as Futsu Mitama, it is required for the Case File Sword Collecting (3).
Pinaka: Pinaka is a weapon in the series. In Hinduism, Pinaka, also known as Shiva Dhanush, is the bow of Lord Shiva. Vishwakarma crafted two divine bows. He gave Sharanga to Lord Vishnu and Pinaka to Lord Shiva. In the Hindu epic Ramayana, its hero Rama (another avatar of Vishnu) breaks the bow in order to marry King Janaka's daughter Sita.
Tsukikage: Tsukikage is a weapon in the series.
Ameno-nuboko: The Ame no Nuboko, also known as Ameno Nuhoko, is a weapon in the series. Ame no Nuboko, meaning "Heavenly Jewel Spear," is said to be the weapon that Izanagi and Izanami used to raise the original land from the primordial sea.
Longinus: Longinus is a weapon in the series. The Lance of Longinus, also known as the Holy Lance, Spear of Destiny, or simply Longinus, is a powerful holy relic and weapon, created when a roman centurion, who would become Saint Longinus, used a lance to pierce the side of Jesus Christ in order to prove that he was dead while crucified.
Axe Type
32 Gunto: 32 Gunto is a weapon in the series.
Nagamitsu: Nagamitsu is a weapon in the series.
Kiyotsune: Kiyotsune is a weapon in the series.
Nagamichi: Nagamichi is a weapon in the series.
Shishiou: Shishiou is a weapon in the series.
Doujigiri: Doujigiri is a weapon in the series.
Seimitsu: Seimitsu is a weapon in the series.
Ameno-ohabari: Ame no Ohabari, Blade of Totsuka, or Kamudo no Tsurugi is a weapon in the series. To aid Raidou against Clarion, Kushinada sacrifices her life to bring forth the sword Ame-no-Ohbari, which he uses to slay Clarion with his demons aiding him.
Vanargand: Vanargand is a weapon in the series. It is a sword that is the demon Fenrir.
Balmung: Balmung, also known as Gram, is a weapon in the series. The weapon of Siegfried, used to slay Fafnir.
Totsuka: Ame no Ohabari, Blade of Totsuka, or Kamudo no Tsurugi is a weapon in the series. To aid Raidou against Clarion, Kushinada sacrifices her life to bring forth the sword Ame-no-Ohbari, which he uses to slay Clarion with his demons aiding him.
Mjolnir: Mjolnir, also known as Mjollnir or Thor's Hammer, is a weapon in the series. Mjölnir is the legendary hammer of Thor. It was forged by the Dwarf brothers Brokkr and Sindri during a bet made with Loki.
Youkou Haken: Youkou Haken is a weapon in the series.
Mitsurugi: Mitsurugi is a weapon in the series.
Akatsuki: Akatsuki is a weapon in the series.
Revolver: A supernatural revolver strapped to his right hip, despite it's appearance as a standard revolver it is capable of firing elementially-affiliated bullets, along with him being able to use his reolver with a demon for a powerful combination attack.
Bullets: Originally in Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless King Raidou would be limited to 24 bullets of each type until he buys the corresponding clip for that ammunition type, however in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon , Raidou has unlimited ammo. Bullets provide Raidou with various different elemental and status effects.
Bullets
Item
Desc
Buy (¥)
Sell (¥)
Normal Bullet
Power: 12
10
5
Heavy Bullet
Power: 25
100
55
Fatal Bullet
Power: 40
-
275
Fire Bullet
Power: 6, Extra Effect: Burn
30
16
Ice Bullet
Power: 6, Extra Effect: Freeze
30
16
Elec Bullet
Power: 6, Extra Effect: Shock
30
16
Force Bullet
Power: 6, Extra Effect: Impede
30
16
Phys Bullet
Power: 6, Extra Effect: Dizzy
30
16
Death Bullet
Power: 6, Extra Effect: Stun
30
16
Charm Bullet
Power: 8, Extra Effect: Charm
30
16
Sleep Bullet
Power: 8, Extra Effect: Sleep
30
16
Panic Bullet
Power: 8, Extra Effect: Panic
30
16
Mute Bullet
Power: 8, Extra Effect: Mute
30
16
Poison Bullet
Power: 8, Extra Effect: Poison
30
16
Stone Bullet
Power: 8, Extra Effect: Stone
30
16
Raidou's revolver as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Kuda: The summoning tubes, or kuda, are used to call forth and store his demons are slotted into white, bandolier-like pockets strapped to his chest. He can use multiple at once for a great number of demons.
One of Raidou's demon tubes as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Usable Items
Usable Items
Item
Desc
Buy (¥)
Sell (¥)
Medicine
Restore 75 HP. 1 ally.
150
82
Ox Bezoar
Restore 250 HP. 1 ally. Said to be an aphrodisiac.
1,000
550
Life Stone
Restore HP (Medium). 1 ally.
2,800
1,540
Muscle Drink
Restore HP (Large) with side effects. 1 ally.
2,200
1,210
Bead
Restore full HP. 1 ally.
-
2,200
Bead of Life
Restore all HP. Entire party.
-
11,000
Chakra Chip
Restore MP (Small). 1 ally.
800
440
Chakra Drop
Restore MP (Medium). 1 ally.
3,000
1,650
Chakra Pot
Restore all MP. 1 ally.
-
4,400
Great Chakra
Restore all MP. Entire party.
-
13,750
Soma Drop
Restore all HP and MP. 1 ally.
-
8,250
Soma
Restore all HP and MP. Entire party.
-
22,000
Anti-Poison
Cure Poison. 1 ally.
300
165
Anti-Mute
Cure Mute. 1 ally.
300
165
Anti-Stone
Cure Stone. 1 ally.
300
165
Anti-Mind
Cure Sleep, Panic, Charm and Rage. 1 ally.
800
440
Jin Dan
Revive with small HP recovery. 1 ally.
1,000
550
Balm of Life
Revive with full HP recovery. 1 ally.
5,000
2,750
St Incense
Increase Strength by 1. 1 ally. Increase potential Strength boosts via leveling/sacrifice.
-
5
Ma Incense
Increase Magic by 1. 1 ally. Increase potential Magic boosts via leveling/sacrifice.
-
5
Vi Incense
Increase Vitality by 1. 1 ally. Increase potential Vitality boosts via leveling/sacrifice.
-
5
Lu Incense
Increase Luck by 1. 1 ally. Increase potential Luck boosts via leveling/sacrifice.
-
5
"Mansaku" Sake
Increase demon's Loyalty (small). 1 ally.
3,000
1,650
"Homura" Sake
Increase Pyro demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Fubuki" Sake
Increase Frost demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Raiden" Sake
Increase Volt demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Arashi" Sake
Increase Wind demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Gouriki" Sake
Increase Fury demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Yamiyo" Sake
Increase Pagan demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Takumi" Sake
Increase Skill demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
2,200
"Shishiou" Sake
Increase demon's Loyalty (medium). 1 ally.
-
3,850
"Koutetsu" Sake
Increase demon's Loyalty (large). 1 ally.
-
5,500
Attract Water
Briefly increases encounter rate until New Moon
1,000
550
Repulse Water
Briefly decreases encounter rate until New Moon
1,000
550
Foxtail
An irresistable grass toy for a cat. Use 9 times for a Bead of Life, Great Chakra and Soma.
-
-
Smoke Ball
Instantly escape from battle.
2,000
1,100
Purity Charm
A talisman said to expel evil.
-
550
Wood Ornament
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
1,100
Asuka Mirror
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
3,300
Rakuyou Chalice
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
6,600
Javanese Figure
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
11,000
Roman Coin
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
14,300
Persian Vase
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
19,800
Theban Jar
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
24,200
Cretan Goddess
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
29,700
Babylon Tablet
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
38,500
Giza Mask
Fetches a hefty sum at Konnou-Ya.
-
55,000
Dainty Snack
A popular bar snack. Demons like it, too.
-
550
Twig
A plain old twig. There's no use for it.
-
1
Old Underwear
A garment favored by virgins long ago.
-
1,320
Normal Clip
Increases Normal Bullet capacity to 99.
5,000
-
Heavy Clip
Increases Heavy Bullet capacity to 99.
50,000
-
Fire Clip
Increases Fire Bullet capacity to 99.
10,000
-
Ice Clip
Increases Ice Bullet capacity to 99.
10,000
-
Elec Clip
Increases Elec Bullet capacity to 99.
10,000
-
Force Clip
Increases Force Bullet capacity to 99.
10,000
-
Phys Clip
Increases Phys Bullet capacity to 99.
10,000
-
Death Clip
Increases Death Bullet capacity to 99.
15,000
-
Charm Clip
Increases Charm Bullet capacity to 99.
15,000
-
Sleep Clip
Increases Sleep Bullet capacity to 99.
15,000
-
Panic Clip
Increases Panic Bullet capacity to 99.
15,000
-
Mute Clip
Increases Mute Bullet capacity to 99.
15,000
-
Poison Clip
Increases Poison Bullet capacity to 99.
15,000
-
Stone Clip
Increases Stone Bullet capacity to 99.
20,000
-
Valuables
Valuables
Item
Desc
Effect
Butterfly Brooch
A brooch dropped by the kidnapped girl.
-
Photo of Kaya
A photo of Kaya Daidouji.
-
Kaya's Diary
Kaya Daidouji's diary.
-
Red Wine
Wine from Provence, France.
-
Pricey Beer
A full-bodied beer.
-
Lucky Charm
An old charm that's been worn out.
-
Rickshaw Knob
A piece of a rickshaw handle.
-
Cuff Link
Master Daidouji's cuff link.
Raidou gets free Elec Clip
Ring of Memories
The ring the Owner of Ryugu got from Elfman.
-
Tae's Camera
The camera Tae is always carrying around.
-
Earth Prism
One of the four prisms. Represents earth.
-
Flame Prism
One of the four prisms. Represents fire.
-
Water Prism
One of the four prisms. Represents water.
-
Amatsu Kanagi
Yatagarasu's sacred treasure.
-
Lock Pick
A tool used to open locks. Use them responsibly.
Can open locked doors in Daidouji Manor.
Blue Shard
A shard that looks fixable.
-
Red Shard
A shard that looks fixable.
-
White Shard
A shard that looks fixable.
-
Blood Chrysoberyl
A gem used to break the seal at the factory.
-
Ice Cream
A cold, sweet dessert
-
Syrup
Sweet, thick sauce for cooking.
-
Fried Tofu
Portions of food for foxes.
-
Report Page 1
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 2
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 3
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 4
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 5
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 6
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 7
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Report Page 8
Sadakichi's report on the Super Soldier Project.
-
Vodka
Imported specially from Russia
Present to Large Tarrasque to obtain treasure
Sword of Kashima
A sword to awaken the guardian of the Earth Prism.
-
Shiomitsu Orb
An ocean-blue gem
-
Chigaeshi Orb
A blood-red gem
-
Flute of Rhone
An old flute used to call the Large Tarrasque.
-
Prophetic Book
A book prophesying many disasters.
Fuse Kudan at the Gouma-Den
Staff of Death
A staff that emits ominous energy.
Fuse Alice at the Gouma-Den
Mystic Eye
A mirror that can see demons' abilities.
-
Phantom Skull
Required credentials to meet the Demon Lord.
-
Tyrant Spawn
Required credentials to meet the Demon Lord.
-
Emblem of Hell
Required credentials to meet the Demon Lord.
-
SS Project Report
All the details of the Super Soldier Project.
-
Photo of Red Cape
The photo of the Red Cape that Tae snapped.
-
Photo of Shizu
A photo of the eloped Shizu.
-
Kiyoshi's Cane
The cane Kiyoshi always had with him.
-
Photo of Tae
Tae and an Army soldier in the Dark Realm.
-
Items
Items
Healing Items=
These are items that can heal HP or MP one time only. This group does not include incenses, revival items, or curing items.
HP Restoration
Medicine: A health restoration item used to heal 120 HP.
Ox Bezoar: A health restoration item used to heal 350 HP.
Life Stone: A health restoration item used to heal 25% of ones health.
Muscle Drink: A health restoration item that has the side effect of adding a Status Effect to Raidou.
Bead: A health restoration item used to fully restore ones health.
Bead of Life: A health restoration item used to fully restore the entire parties health.
MAG Restoration
Soma: A MAG restoration item used to fully restore one's MAG.
Cure Items
These items cure an ailment or affliction one time only.
Anti-Poison: An ailment cure item that cures the Poison status effect.
Anti-Mute: An ailment cure item that cures the Mute status effect.
Anti-Mind: An ailment cure item that cures the Sleep, Panic, Charm, and Rage status effects.
Anti-Stone: An ailment cure item that cures the Stone status effect.
Kagura Flute: An ailment cure item that cures the Protest status effect.
Incenses
These incenses can be burned to fully heal the HP of one member, usable one time only. They all have unique side-effects that increase the user's abilities permanently.
Strength Incense: Increases Raidou or ally's Strength by 1.
Magic Incense: Increases Raidou or ally's Magic by 1.
Vitality Incense: Increases Raidou or ally's Vitality by 1.
Luck Incense: Increases Raidou or ally's Luck by 1.
Revival Items
These items bring a dead party member back to life one time only.
Jin Dan: A revival item that revives a dead demon with some health.
Balm of Life: A revival item that revives a dead demon with full health.
Defensive Items
Smoke Bomb: A defensive item used to instantly escape from battle.
Luck Locust: Locust that boost Raidou's own luck and get various boosts during battle or they could be used to sap one's luck away.
Non-Combat Items
Encounter Rate Items
Attract Water: An item that increases encounter rate until the next New Moon.
Repulse Water: An item that decreases encounter rate until the next New Moon.
Others
Birdlime: An item used to capture Luck Locusts, allowing Raidou to boost his own luck and get various boosts during battle or sap one's luck away.
Loyalty-increasing Items
Mansaku Sake: An item that increases a demon's Loyalty by a small amount.
Homura Sake: An item that increases a Pyro demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Arashi Sake: An item that increases a Wind demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Takumi Sake: An item that increases a Skill demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Fubuki Sake: An item that increases a Frost demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Yamiyo Sake: An item that increases a Pagan demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Raiden Sake: An item that increases a Volt demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Gouriki Sake: An item that increases a Fury demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Shishiou Sake: An item that increases a demon's Loyalty by a medium amount.
Kotetsu Sake: An item that increases a demon's Loyalty by a large amount.
Treasure Items
Foxtail
Rusted Screw
Uranus Stone
Amulet
Twig
Dainty Snack
Old Underwear
Shizu's Umbrella
Ukemochi Liver
Wood Ornament
Asuka Mirror
Rakuyou Chalice
Javanese Figure
Roman Coin
Persian Vase
Theban Jar
Cretan Goddess
Babylon Tablet
Giza Mask
Tae Sticker
Gems
Onyx
Turquoise
Amethyst
Aquamarine
Sapphire
Garnet
Topaz
Opal
Pearl
Ruby
Emerald
Diamond
Crystals
Pyro Steel
Pyro Bronze
Pyro Silver
Pyro Gold
Frost Steel
Frost Bronze
Frost Silver
Frost Gold
Volt Steel
Volt Bronze
Volt Silver
Volt Gold
Wind Steel
Wind Bronze
Wind Silver
Wind Gold
Fury Steel
Fury Bronze
Fury Silver
Fury Gold
Pagan Steel
Pagan Bronze
Pagan Silver
Pagan Gold
Skill Steel
Skill Bronze
Skill Silver
Skill Gold
Plastic
Element #115
Moon Chip
Homusubi Crystal
Onogoro Ore
Mirror of Sun
Victory Crown
Strife Blade
Hunger Scale
Mortal Seal
Aletia
Shadow Magatama
Sessho-Seki
Pentagram
Light Steel
Blaze Steel
Nous
*Goutou: Gouto-Douji, simply known as Gouto, is a black cat that accompanies Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV in his missions. He acts as a mentor to the new heir of the Kuzunoha Clan, often giving out advice while aiding Raidou's investigations.
Gouto as he appears in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito
Devil Summoning: Raidou is a devil summoner who uses demons to fight by his side during battle and for investigations. Due to humans normally not being able to see demons, Raidou can used various summoned demons for many activities he himself can't do, such as using demons to sneak into rooms without being noticed. Despite the games making it look like he can only summon one demon at a time this is actually a Game Mechanic as in official cutscenesshow him about to summon multiple demons at once, along with this in the canonical manga he can summon many demons.
The Following is a list of skills Raidou along with his demons have
Skills a demon learns when it has maxed Loyalty. Inherits Passive Skills and passive skill slots when fused. Gains certain skills when gemstones are used in fusion.
Skill
Effect
Life Bonus
Raises MAX HP by 10%
Life Gain
Raises MAX HP by 20%
Life Surge
Raises MAX HP by 30%
Fire Boost
Increase Fire attack dmg
Ice Boost
Increase Ice attack dmg
Elec Boost
Increase Elec attack dmg
Force Boost
Increase Force attack dmg
Heal Boost
Increase healing ability
Mind Boost
Increase chance of Mind ailment attack
Fire Resist
Halves Fire dmg taken. Can void weakness
Ice Resist
Halves Ice dmg taken. Can void weakness
Elec Resist
Halves Elec dmg taken. Can void weakness
Force Resist
Halves Force dmg taken. Can void weakness
Phys Resist
Halves Phys dmg taken. Can void weakness
Halve Death
Death dmg -50%, negates Death stun
Halve Mind
Halves susceptibility to ailments
Halve Mortal
Halves chance of instant death
Null Mortal
Prevents instant death
Power Chakra
Boosts Strength by 3
Magic Chakra
Boosts Magic by 3
Stamina Chakra
Boosts Vitality by 3
Luck Chakra
Boosts Luck by 3
Agni's Blessing
Boosts all stats by 3
Demon's Blessing
Boost all stats
Drain
MAG absorption rate increases
Magic Boost
Reduce MAG usage for skills
Skill Extension
Extends duration of skills
Sink or Swim
Boosts critical rate and accuracy
Lucky Strike
Raise critical chances on normal attacks
Moonlight Rage
Boosts strength during Full Moon
Endure
Revive with 1 HP (once per battle)
Vengeance Seal
Revive with 50% HP on death (once per battle)
Retribution
Chance of heavy Almighty area dmg upon death
Fast Escape
Escape quicker if skill holder is present
EXP Boost
Small increase to EXP earned after battle
Growth
Obtain Exp when not summoned
First Aid
Recover some HP (self) after battle
Whimsy Aid
Recover own HP after battle depending on Luck.
Money-Getter
Find money while walking
Finders Keepers
Find items while walking
Desperate Power
Raises Fiend encounter rate
Unreachable Soul
Drops Fiend encounter rate
Orienteering
Possessor won't get lost
Capital's Fury
High chance of countering all dmg taken
Lucky Capote
Nullify the dmg dealt, depending on Luck
Hero's Might
Chance of increasing Phys attack dmg
Mage's Craft
Chance of increasing Magic attack dmg
Destructive Joy
Boosts the power of all attacks
Investigation Skills
Skills demons have depending on the order with several exceptions. Fiend Order, Spirit Order, and Evil Order do not have these skills. Cannot be inherited.
Use Force: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Use Force will move heavy objects out of the way in order to continue through an area. It is the primary investigation skill of Fury Order demons.
Ignite: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Ignite will raise a human subject's spirits or excite them, possibly leading to them revealing useful information to Raidou. It is the primary investigation skill of the entire Pyro Order of demons.
Cool Down: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Cool Down will calm a human target and potentially lead to them revealing useful information to Raidou. It can also be used to freeze small bodies of water in order to traverse them.
Inspect: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Inspect is used to reveal hidden items and passages within the locations visited. The items revealed by the Inspect skill are not among the items counted when a demon of the Wind Order uses the Scout skill in an area. Inspect is the primary investigation skill for demons of the Volt Order.
Read Mind: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Read Mind is an investigation skill belonging to the Pagan Order. Using Read Mind on an NPC may reveal useful information to Raidou.
Transform: Raidou is able to shapeshift with some kind of DNA, such as hair, blood, etcetera.
Light Up: Raidou can illuminate areas with light, allowing him to see in dark rooms and areas.
Demonstrate: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Demonstrate is the primary investigation skill of Skill Order demons. Its effects vary and the skill can only be successfully used while a Skill Order demon is summoned and following Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV around an area. A solo demon will not be able to use the skill, as no one would be watching them. Raidou will receive a prompt stating that the demon wishes to demonstrate their expertise, which Raidou can allow or ignore.
Effects
Use craftsman skill while moving.
The demon will convert an item into something else.
The demon will heal Raidou or another demon.
The demon will reduces Raidou's HP or another demon's HP to 1.
Raidou or a demon will be inflicted with a status ailment.
Raidou or a demon will receive a permanent stat increase.
Fly: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Fly will allow demons to reach items high up out of reach or to traverse over bodies of water to reach objecives.
Sneak: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Sneak will allow demons to reach narrow spaces that cannot normally be accessed by Raidou or other demons.
Loose Change: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Loose Change will allow Raidou's demons to find money while moving around while summoned.
Scavenger: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Scavenger allow Raidou's demons to pick up items while they are summoned.
Allure: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Allure is an investigation skill that makes Raidou attractive or noticeable to a target, revealing new information or potentially leading to Raidou being granted items.
Scout: In the Raidou Kuzunoha series, Scout is an Investigation Skill belonging to the Wind Order of demons. When Raidou has them use the Scout skill, they will temporarily fly away and return with a short report on the area, which includes the number of normal items left in the area and three of the demons that can be found in the area. Scout will not detect hidden items that a Volt Order demon can find using the Inspect skill. When returning from scouting the area, the demon can also bring back a random item and give it to Raidou.
Intimidate: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Intimidate is an investigation skill that lowers the encounter rate until the next New Moon.
Provoke: In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Provoke is an investigation skill that raises the encounter rate until the next New Moon.
Boogie-Woogie: Deals multiple physical damage to one foe through repeatedly shooting them.
Enter Yoshitune: Enter Yoshitsune is an exclusive skill to Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne that deals medium Physical damage and then summoning Yoshitsune to finish off with a lightning bolt.
Mishaguji Raiden: Summons Mishaguji to deal heavy electric damage and 15% shock to all foes.
Hikoto Storm: Summons Hitokoto-Nushi to deal heavy force damage to all foes.
Raptor Guardian: Summons Moh Shuvuu to negate all -nda effects (status effects/debuffs) for all allies.
Provoke: Buffs physical attack and decreases defense both by 2 levels, all foes and restores user with some MP.
Mokoi Boomerang: Summons Mokoi to deal medium physical damage and 30% panic to all foes. Undodgeable.
Jiraya Dance: Summons Tsuchigumo to deal heavy almighty damage to all foes.
Raidou the Eternal: Multiplies equipper's all damage dealt by 1.5 and all physical/phys-almighty attacks bypass target's most resistances except for repel.
While the Persona 4 game's English localization changed a reference to a detective series (The Kindaichi Case Files) to one of Raidou by Chie on the Tatsumi Port Island school trip, the anime's English dub kept the former.
In Toumon Boogey's prequel novel, Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidō tai Shibito Ekishi, his real first name is given as Jōhei (錠平).
Raidou also has a bio in the prequel novel that states "なお、帝都にある「弓月の君高等師範学校」の生徒でもある。", which roughly translates to "In addition, he is also a student of "Yuzuki no Kimi Higher Normal School" in the Imperial City." However, most official English sources state that he's a Yumizuki Imperial High School Student. The reason for this change is unknown.
Gozuki and Mezuki are probably a reference to Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon's opening.
He also used Mokoi and Moh Shuvuu in his Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne Chronicle appearance. He uses them again in his ultimate boss battle in the 3DS remake of Soul Hackers.
The Kohryu is proven to be the same one from the second game.
Raidou's design is heavily based on Yasunori Kato, the protagonist of Teito Monogatari, a popular novel series which also inspired a large part of the Megami Tensei series. Kato claims to be a descendant of the Kuzunoha of Japanese folklore the clan gets its name from.
Raidou's motives are in stark contrast to Kato's; while Kato, fueled by the spirit of revenge, seeks to destroy the capital, Raidou, aided by the Yatagarasu, constantly works to protect it.
There are some demon conversations in Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon where a demon may ask Raidou to wear his hat (i.e. Incubus), and if the player decides to do so, the demon's attention will be caught by Raidou's uncovered head. When the demon returns Raidou's hat, it will say Don't worry ... I'm not gonna say anything while being a little nervous or startled.
Although it was not shown, Raidou is capable of summoning 8 demons as hinted in the openings of both games.
References
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2, Chapter 4 "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?" "Yes, that's right." "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."
↑Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.
↑The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's observation weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying
↑Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.
↑The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's observation weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2, Chapter 4 "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?" "Yes, that's right." "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City, Chapter 5, "He Who Calls" "Isma was convinced that something was Yumiko. Most likely, the high concentration of biological Magnetite within her body had been a major player in creating the magnetic field for summoning. The divine constitution she had inherited from Izanami was nothing but a giant retention of highly concentrated Magnetite. While meager in comparison to that of Yumiko, ordinary humans also held some biological Magnetite. If enough of it was collected, it might be able to create a permanent overlap of the Atziluth and Assiah worlds. Having already formed a contract with Set, Isma borrowed his power to summon many people to attempt to create a tower of human flesh. And everything was proceeding according to plan. Even now, the heavens split with terrible thunder, and Set's most powerful servant, the great serpent Typhon, reared its head into the air as it slithered from behind a black curtain, knocking over the Soga Forest's trees as it went."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City, Chapter 5, "He Who Calls" "Having already formed a contract with Set, Isma borrowed his power to summon many people to attempt to create a tower of human flesh. And everything was proceeding according to plan. Even now, the heavens split with terrible thunder, and Set's most powerful servant, the great serpent Typhon, reared its head into the air as it slithered from behind a black curtain, knocking over the Soga Forest's trees as it went. "Typhon, welcome. Breathe deeply and take in the air of the Assiah world." Isma looked kindly at the enormous snake. "Take a look, your first victim awaits in the shadow of that tree." Isma pointed to the fleeing police officer. Typhon vanished beyond the trees. Meanwhile, Set had transformed into a gigantic, vile pillar of flesh. At its peak, his sinister, glowing red eyes darted all around the area. Typhon's presence is proof that the demon world Set rules is starting to meld with the Assiah world. Now all that remains is gathering more Magnetite and solidifying the connection... Isma's eyes shimmered with madness."
↑Profile: The actual One God of monotheism. The One God praised by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the omnipotent existence that created heaven and earth and made man in his own image, but this also means that together with the angels, his bunrei [subparts], he also gave birth to demons. By giving humans bodies of flesh and bone, their lives and fears were repeated in the endless cycle of death and rebirth, restricting their range of observation.
↑The reason YHVH is harmed during this fight is due to humanity's observation weakening him, as there's no reason for YHVH to be lying
↑Shioda: Is it correct to think that humanity was created by the Great Reason rather than by the gods? Yamai: In the beginning, I believe, pure humans were made as observers of the universe. Then, as time passed, gods and polytheism appeared as the result of their perception of the surrounding world. Miyata: Nozomi says at some point that it’s all right for people to be unsure, but in the underground it is believed that the gods are one of the answers hypothesised by humans. From her point of view, the gods are a symbol of the ideal imagined by humans and the perfect form envisioned by them as their target, their final point. Monotheism, on the other hand, only has one final target, but there are many ideals to pursue. This is tied to Nozomi’s lines above. It’s all right if there are bad guys and if there are good people, there will also be fickle ones. Nozomi’s credo is that everyone should choose their own destination. Yamai: Even when talking about the creation of the universe, I think the birth of the Great Reason is beyond our ideals. The universe we can observe stretches over 130 billion light years, but we don’t know how it managed to appear from nothing. Gods like Izanagi, who birthed out of his eyes and nose, were perhaps a symbol of a farming culture, but they had a power that surpassed the humans’ power of understanding and I dare say that in the case of the Great Reason too, if emotions were to arise, those emotions themselves would become gods. I’m talking about that kind of creation. For example, the wish to be worshipped gave birth to YHVH, or seeing the fights between humans signified the appearance of Lucifer. I think this is similar to the trends and movements born out of people’s shared consciousness nowadays. Let’s look at Japan’s concept of cuteness: if it spread throughout the whole world, maybe it would lead to the birth of a new god. I had this vague thought that the backbone of the Great Reason would begin like a pure baby who would pick up various emotions through touch, gradually learning about its surroundings. Shioda: So it’s something along the lines of a god born out of the collective unconscious which came from shared awareness? Yamai: That’s right, don’t you all just love it? (laughs) Miyata: I certainly think there is some sort of huge collective unconscious, but I never really thought it might be connected to the Great Reason. And speaking of shared awareness, the scale would be quite small depending on the surroundings; the Japanese would have their shared awareness, but it would be different from that of foreigners. For example, even if the Japanese saw themselves as without religion, they’d look Buddhist to foreigners. This kind of thing leads me to think that the Great Reason is not at the surface of shared awareness, but belongs instead to an extremely deep part of the origin. Shioda: I personally think that the term ‘bunrei’ [spirit divisions] often used to name gods in the story is extremely important in this game. The Great Reason is the origin. Does that make YHVH and all the other gods ‘bunrei’? Yamai: Yes, it does. I think we can explain the existence of ‘bunrei’ through polytheism resulted from human perception. In the Celtic world, the druids saw Dagda as the forefather of sorcerers, but this was different for the Norse people or the Germanic culture. The people of each civilisation would see things as it fit them, so we got Odin instead. ‘Bunrei’ are born like this, but then again, treating Dagda and Odin as identical is wrong. Their powers and responsibilities are different, so it’s better for them to be thought of as different entities. Let’s have a look at YHVH: when he was born, humans perhaps observed YHVH himself, but once the scriptures were written, Uriel would be the one to be noticed and maybe that’s why he made so many appearances in their pages. Uriel frequently appearing as YHVH’s messenger also kind of feels like an accessory that comes to the front in order to preserve YHVH’s solemnity. But that is the result of the perception of later people, so we can also say that Uriel is a part [bunrei] of YHVH.
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 7, Chapter 2 "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
↑Narisawa: Now, let’s change the subject. I’d like to talk about the Abyss or the demon areas. This time the Abyss is designed like the Sephiroth Tree. We need to read the strategy guide in order to understand that, but is this how you originally envisioned it? Okada: I said earlier that Tokyo Millenium and the Underworld are in contrast but generally speaking, their opposite is the Abyss. It’s like saying Lucifer is Satan’s opposite. Narisawa: Kabbalah is a secret formula that belongs to humans, so how do you explain Lucifer using it to design the Abyss? Itou: That is why we have opposites. We can consider the possibility of humans being the ones who were influenced. We don’t know whether they saw the Abyss’s design after a near-death experience or were telepathically struck by some waves, but if pushed to say, the Kabbalah that’s transmitted through the world right now could be a representation of what they “saw”. Narisawa: It’s a reversal.
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6 "To Space", The glitter of the stars and the unending void surrounded Nakajima. Below his feet, the endlessly spinning blue globe shone up at him. It took him a few moments to realize that he was floating in outer space. Nakajima unfolded his arms. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi he held emitted a strand of light in the inkwell of space. Its blade twinkled and throbbed, responding to the tens of thousands of stars. It seemed that Izanami's robe had given him the power to survive and move in the vacuum of outer space. Suddenly, a sinister psychic wave hit Nakajima from behind. Swinging his sword, Nakajima slowly turned around, and found his field of vision dominated by an open, gaping red maw. An incomprehensibly enormous serpent; though the demon had only owned a temporary form on the surface of the earth, the powerful magnetic field that had forced him into space had given Set a complete body. Star Scorpion's 60-foot-long solar cells spread out like wings. Set's pale green scales glimmered as he coiled around the beautiful, practical satellite lying in medium Earth orbit. It looks like the insignificant humans had enough knowledge to summon me into this empty space. The voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. But the humans will soon know their folly in thinking that they have banished me. Pulling this machine down with me is an easy task. And that is not all. Have a look at all the demons that were summoned here! Several pale glowing things that looked like hoods aimlessly floated beside Nakajima. Soon, they will take on bodies and seek safe haven on Earth. The end of foolish humanity’s dominion over the earth will not be long. Nakajima, whether or not you intended, you have become the knight that blows the trumpet signaling the beginning of the apocalypse. The only path remaining for you is to cast aside your humanity and work for me. It would be a shame to kill you. Think on it. Ignoring Set's call, Nakajima focused all of his anger onto the sword he held directly in front of him. The environment that had given Set a body had also removed all restrictions on the divine power Nakajima had been granted. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, now an immensely long coil of light, drew a whip-like arc that emitted red light, and came down onto the body of the enormous serpent."
↑Note: Demons normally showing these contradictions is due to the observation of humanity affecting them.
↑Digital Devil Story Chapter 4, "Sword of Flame", Page 55 "RAUIERE!" Yomotsu-Shikome tried to tell him something in a foreign tongue. She could sense that this intruder possessed a power much different and far greater than the human tomb robbers that had foolishly wandered in before. If possible, she wanted to repel him without having to fight. Caught off guard, Loki stood still and narrowed his jet-black eyes, as if sizing up the power of this new arrival. Then, he started to walk forward calmly, an arrogant smirk on his face.
↑Digital Devil Story Transfer, Chapter 1, Page 28 "Hashiguchi abruptly noticed that the display looked like it was damp, as if it was covered in a layer of condensation. As he tried to wipe the screen off with his hand, he felt something stick to his fingertips, and jumped back in surprise. Something slimy was stuck to his fingers; as he shook them violently, a heavy, disgusting jelly-like substance fell to the floor with a splat. "Ugh! What the hell is this!?" Inoue turned around at Hashiguchi's cry and froze in shock. Beneath the skin of the pink protoplasm, a mesh of green-colored veins spread out as the whole blob pulsated like an organ torn out of its host. The repulsive lump of flesh made a squishing sound as it started to approach the two men. Backing up, Inoue stumbled over a chair and sprayed the contents of his stomach all over the floor. "Inoue! Get a hold of yourself!" Grabbing his coworker's arm to keep him standing, Hashiguchi started to run toward the door. As he turned, the gelatinous blob lashed out; tentacles covered in a viscous sticky fluid like red jam grabbed onto the legs of both men in an instant. "Shit!" Hashiguchi cursed as he grabbed files and the phone off his desk--any object within reach--and began throwing them at his attacker. When it showed no fear, he grabbed a chair, lifted it over his head, and brought it crashing down on top of the thing. However, the skin of the gelatinous blob simply pulled the steel chair into its body, where it was quickly dissolved right before Hashiguchi's eyes."
↑Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 36 "However, just as Yumiko tried to stagger away and flee, a strange sound came from Loki's arms. For a moment they looked like they were beginning to melt, and then they changed into giant, jiggling, pink-colored blobs of protoplasm. From their tips, multiple tentacles lashed out and wrapped around Yumiko's limbs. "No, stop!" The tentacles gripping the crying Yumiko's limbs pulled her up into the air, toward the body of the blob. A new pink tentacle sprouted and wrapped around Yumiko's body, and the liquid leaking from its membrane melted her clothes, latched onto her now-exposed skin and started writhing along her slender body."
↑Digital Devil Story Chatper 2, Sword of Flame, Page 53 "At that time, Loki swiftly entered Shirasagi Mound, and was standing before the passageway that Nakajima had passed through earlier. "Just you wait, Nakajima. Soon, I will defile your precious woman before your very eyes before devouring you whole." With a twisted smile on his face, Loki transformed himself into an amorphous blob and oozed into the tunnel. Loki descended the passageway that took Nakajima hours to traverse in mere minutes. Soon the blob of flesh made a squishing sound as it dropped to the stone floor of the plaza before the burial pathway. At that instant, its outer membrane hissed and gave off smoke as it started to melt. "Damn you!" Loki quickly transformed back into his bronze body, and kneeling on the ground, let loose a terrible howl. Most likely, he could not stand the chemical reaction that took place when his protoplasmic body came into contact with the mercuric sulfide. Even now, the one gelatinous place of his body between his eyes throbbed and pulsated. Gritting his teeth and standing, Loki stared solemnly at the crimson burial road."
↑Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 37 "Leaving his handsome face intact, Loki started to change into a cylindrical lump of flesh that sprouted countless small tentacles. The pink protoplasm started to glow and the movement of the tentacle fondling Yumiko's body became faster and rougher. Yumiko lost all will to resist, and her head fell to the side limply as she passed out. Loki started to pull her doll-like body into his own; he failed to notice that Ohara was glaring furiously at Yumiko even as she was enveloped within the protoplasm. Many women could not resist the allure of demons. Even if they despised them normally, they’d fall madly in love with them if they had sex with them even once. For Ohara, who had devoted herself body and soul to Loki, watching him have sex with one of her students in front of her eyes was an unbearable humiliation. Once Yumiko's slender white legs had sunk into the protoplasm and she was inside Loki up to her chest, Ohara went mad with jealousy, grabbed Yumiko’s head, and started to twist it.
↑"Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2, "Conflicts" "Crying out, Typhon whipped and spasmed. Sword and all, Nakajima was thrown aside, but Kerberos leaped into the air and caught him. Right then, Nakajima got the sense that he heard Yumiko's voice from far away. Looking around in confusion, the image of Yumiko, bound to a cross and writhing in agony, appeared in his mind. Most likely, Set had sent him the picture of her current state as the core of his enormous protoplasmic temporary body. Nakjima noticed that one of the eyes in her lovely, terrified face was dripping blood."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6, "To Space" "However, he could not stop fighting. As minor demons from Set's world continued wriggling while trying to enter the Assiah world, an unmistakably familiar voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. Nakajima! I'm here! Aim for here! Yumiko! Is that you!? The instant Nakajima heard the voice, the Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi regained a shine like a nova as it tore through the air. Stab your sword in the direction of my voice! Nakajima quickly noticed a pale, white, phosphorescent glow on a part of the enormous serpent's scale-encased body. Yes, I'm inside the demon! If we attack from inside him and outside him at the same time, we might be able to defeat Set... Led by Yumiko's voice, Nakajima stabbed his blade toward the phosphorescent glow. But an instant before the tip reached it, the tail of the giant snake forcefully knocked the blade aside and sent Nakajima flying far back. Flipping over and regaining his composure, robe fluttering behind him, Nakajima saw the rolling form of Set uncoiling, as if swimming through the vacuum. Foolish girl! To think you would let me know that you still live! Now I no longer have to depend on this irritating machine!
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of Demon City Chapter 2 "Conflicts" "Isma's body appeared to float in the air as he laughed, and two unusual lights appeared by his feet. Covered in jet-black scales, the great black serpent Typhon stared at Nakajima with its golden eyes, Isma riding on its back, as it slowly rose into the air, towering like an enormous tree. With its head nearly extended to the full height of the tower of flesh, the huge serpent shuddered and assaulted Nakajima. The lower half of Isma's body had been fused into Typhon's; perhaps it was another sort of fusion the demon could do in addition to its innate ability to absorb the earth and the air into its own body."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6 "Quickening" "Matoba was taking a nap on the sofabed in the study next to his office. The heavy black bags under his eyes betrayed his exhaustion from his nonstop efforts to bring his party together and block the National Secrets Protection Act from being passed. Taking advantage of the fact that the world stage was becoming a war of information, the restrictions in the act clearly indicated that the Liberal Party was veering further and further to the right. As the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, that was hard for Matoba to allow. A quiet breeze blew into the room through the air conditioner that Matoba had left on. Not even disturbing the sound of that breeze, the snake slipped into the room through the slit under the door. It raised its head, fixating on its prey. Its small red eyes looked over the snoring, sleeping form of Matoba. Wiggling its body rapidly, the white snake slithered across the floor, effortlessly climbed up the sofabed and dove into the V-neck of Matoba's exposed undershirt, clearly by his unfastened tie. Without any hesitation, the pale serpent bit into the exaggeratedly expanding and contracting fat stomach before it. Like a sharp drill, the slender body of the snake tunneled into Matoba's gut. As if he felt no pain whatsoever, Matoba slept on peacefully. A minute or so later, Matoba suddenly twisted up from the sofabed as if a wave of high-voltage electricity was running through him. His body started to spasm wildly. However, it appeared that the Apep had gained full control of his nervous system; he soon started snoring again and fell into a deep sleep. Strangely enough, the wound on his stomach had sealed, as if cured by some sort of magic. Only moments later, the light sound of a Cedric driving away could be heard from the front of Matoba's manor.
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Part 2: Chapter 2, ""I made it back to Toyoashihara..." His lips trembled with relief. Opening his arms wide, the youth took a deep breath of the humid air, pursed his lips forcefully, turned around, and sat down. For a while, he stared at the form of the grotesque woman chasing him, then shook his head sadly and closed his eyes. The youth started to meditate. When the woman had gotten within reach of a stone's throw, his body seemed to float slightly in midair for a moment, and then there was a huge undulation in the atmosphere. As if a huge invisible power had been released, the earth shook, and the fissure that appeared directly beneath the youth spread to the surrounding moutains, and countless rocks started to fall on the path. As the woman stopped, a giant boulder rolled in front of the path in front of her eyes, sealing it off. "Izanagi! I will come to you! Even if it takes hundreds or thousands of years!" The sound of the woman's bitter cries rose from beyond the towering pile of earth. "Forgive me, Izanami..." Plugging his ears with his hands, the youth staggered into the wetlands, the tall reeds rising even above his height."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 2 "To Space" "A deafening explosion broke Nakajima's concentration. A star-mark-adorned F-14 jet divebombed, slicing through the clouds. Nakajima all of a sudden found himself hovering over a battlefield. Below him was a hair-raising sight. An unbelieveably large lump of flesh, a hideous tower of raw meat, was slowly writhing. Its pale green, transparent gelatinous membrane was greedily expanding at its base. Several long black rivers flowed into it. No, what looked like black rivers were actually the hair of the people heading toward the tower. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people tore off their clothes and proceeded forward completely naked. Rapid explosions echoed through the air. The SDF's F14 jets scrambled from the 7th fleet were attacking, targeting the top of the tower so as to minimize injury to the humans below. A rain of bullets from an attack helicopter's machine guns sprayed through the air. Though that ammunition was capable of penetrating tank armor, it was absorbed without any resistance into the body of the ever-expanding otherworldly creature, as if it was laughing at the pathetic attack. It was almost as if it was trying to prove that any attacks against it would be futile."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 6, "To Space", "Accompanied by the glittering of the stars, unending empty space surrounded Nakajima. Below his feet, the endlessly spinning shining blue globe looked up at him. It took him a few moments for him to realize that he was floating in outer space. Nakajima unfolded his arms. In them, he held the Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, emitting a strand of light in the blackness of space. Its blade twinkled and throbbed, as if responding to the tens of thousands of stars. Suddenly, a sinister psychic wave hit Nakajima from behind. It appeared as if Izanami's robe had given him the power to survive and move about in the vacuum of outer space. Nakajima slowly turned around, and found his field of vision dominated by an open, gaping red maw. It was that of an incomprehensibly enormous serpent. Though the demon had only possessed a temporary form on the surface of the earth, the natural effect of powerful magnetic field that had forced him into space had given Set a complete body. Star Scorpion's 60-foot-long solar cells spread out like wings. Now a giant snake, Set's pale green scales glimmered as he coiled around the beautiful yet functional satellite lying in dead orbit. It looks like the insignificant humans had enough knowledge to summon me into this empty space. The voice echoed in Nakajima's mind. But the humans will soon know their folly in thinking that they have banished me. Pulling this satellite down with me to the surface is an easy task. And that is not all. Have a look at all the demons that were summoned here into space! Beside Nakajima, several pale glowing things that looked like hoods floated aimlessly. Soon, they will take on bodies and seek safe haven on Earth. The end of the age of the foolish humans' dominion over the earth will not be long now. Nakajima, whether or not you intended, you have become the knight that blows the trumpet signalling the beginning of the apocalypse. The only path remaining for you is to cast aside your humanity and work for me. It would be a shame to kill you. Think it over. Ignoring Set's call, Nakajima focused all of his anger onto the sword he held directly in front of him. The environment of outer space that had given the demon a body had also removed all restrictions on the divine power he had been granted. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, now an immensely long coil of light, drew an arc like that of a whip emitting red light, and came down onto the body of the enormous serpent. Fool, you do not value your life. Set lurched forward. Weaving away from the enormous serpent's attacking fangs, Nakajima was enveloped by a miasma like ice. The Sword of Hi-no-Kagutsuchi had already produced many pale sparks striking the body of the serpent coiled around the satellite. Yet the tough scales showed no sign of injury. Not only that, but the ugly faces and disgusting tentacles of materializing new demons floated like ghosts in the space around him. The noisy voices of the demons amplified like they were advancing down on Nakajima."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 4 "Quickening" "I don't think so. From what I've just seen, there's no mistake that a magnetic field suitable for summoning a demon was set up. It may be that the reason no demon appeared was that it might have arrived in the Assiah world via a different magnetic field." "There’re still some details about the mechanism for demon summoning that I don't really understand yet." "Unusual words, coming from the genius that was the first to successfully summon a demon via a computer." Feed grinned broadly, but his expression soon turned grave as he looked directly at Nakajima. "The last demon to appear called himself Set, correct?" "Yes, that's right." "While it's too dangerous to try and conjecture the state of affairs in the demon world based on our own knowledge of this one, my theory is that the demon world is like a colloidal conglomeration of countless mini-universes, each centered around a powerful demon. Most likely, with Loki's death, the mini-universe in contact with Japan or Tokyo vanished, and Set's mini-universe entered to take its place. Demon summoning is just opening a contact point between the two worlds at the same time." "So what would happen if two contact points were opened at the same time?" "The demon would decide where it wanted to appear. However, there are some examples in medieval records of demon summonings that report that when the difference in strength of the two magnetic fields was great enough, the demon would be pulled to the stronger field, regardless of which it wanted to go to..."
↑Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior of the Demon City Chapter 5, "He Who Calls" "Isma had realized that the bizarre life form that had torn itself out of Ohara's belly was a temporary body for Set, who had been planning to take form by possessing Loki's child. According to his theory, summoning a demon via a computer would require creating a magnetic field with which to summon the demon and the processing of the demon's data to be materialized, both of which would have to be done at virtually the same time. If the magnetic field was weak, the point of connection between the demon's world and the Assiah world would narrow, constraining the amount of data that could be processed. On the other hand, no matter how powerful the magnetic field was, unless the digital data could be processed quickly and concisely, the demon would never be able to take form. It was quite possible that even a supercomputer would not be able to handle the massive amount of data that would be needed to materialize a high-ranking demon. Despite that fact, the high-ranking demon Set was able to to take form in the Assiah world, even if it was only in a makeshift body. Something must have added a great deal of power in setting up the necessary magnetic field for a summoning; this in turn would ease the restraints on the data processing. Isma was convinced that something was Yumiko. Most likely, the high concentration of biological Magnetite within her body had been a major player in creating the magnetic field for the summoning. The divine constitution that she had inherited from Izanami was nothing but a giant retention of that highly concentrated Magnetite. While meager in comparison to that of Yumiko, ordinary humans also retained some biological Magnetite. If enough of it was collected, it might be able to create a permanent overlap of the Atziluth and Assiah worlds entirely. Therefore, having already formed a contract with Set, Isma borrowed his power to summon many people and attempt to create a tower of human flesh. And everything was proceeding just according to plan. Even know the heavens split with a terrible thundering, and Set's most powerful servant, the great serpent Typhon, reared its head into the air as if slithering from behind a black curtain, knocking over the Soga Forest's trees as it went. "Typhon, welcome. Breathe deeply and take in the air of the Assiah world." Isma looked kindly at the enormous snake. "Take a look, your first victim awaits in the shadow of that tree." As Isma pointed to the copse where Officer Nimura was, Typhon vanished beyond the trees. Meanwhile, Set had transformed into a gigantic, vile pillar of flesh, his sinister, red glowing eyes at its peak darting all around the area. Typhon's presence is proof that the demon world Set rules is starting to meld with the Assiah world. Now all that remains is to gather more biological Magnetite and solidify the connection... Isma's eyes shimmered even brighter with madness."
↑Digital Devil Story Possession, Chapter 2, Pages 36-37 "Powerless, Nakajima stared at Loki and Ohara. I should have considered the possibility that this could happen. I'd better find a weakness, and soon! Nakajima frantically pointed the sensor connected to his computer at the nearly-materialized Loki. Calling up the ISG host computer, he sent the data the sensor had gathered about the demon to Craft. Meanwhile, Loki extended his hand toward Yumiko, rigid with terror. His bronze, naked body was beautifully symmetrical, almost like the Greek Apollo, and his muscular chest was covered in black scales. His black eyes, from which no one could possibly fathom any emotion, paralyzed her. "Come over here." Pointing his talon at Yumiko, Loki commanded her in a low, cold voice. Yumiko looked to Nakajima for help, but he merely glanced at her and continued talking with the AI. Nakajima knew he wouldn't have a chance if he tried to fight Loki directly, but Loki probably couldn’t risk doing anything to him so long as Nakajima had control of the computer environment. Nakajima knew that he had to find some sort of weakness to Loki while he still had the chance. He had a hunch that Loki would not be able to leave the magnetic field being generated by the computer. However, just as Yumiko tried to stagger away and flee, a strange sound came from Loki's arms. For a moment they looked like they were beginning to melt, and then they changed into giant, jiggling, pink-colored blobs of protoplasm. From their tips, multiple tentacles lashed out and wrapped around Yumiko's limbs. "No, stop!" The tentacles gripping the crying Yumiko's limbs pulled her up into the air, toward the body of the blob. A new pink tentacle sprouted and wrapped around Yumiko's body, and the liquid leaking from its membrane melted her clothes, latched onto her now-exposed skin and started writhing along her slender body. >CRAFT, HURRY! Covering his ears so he wouldn't have to hear Yumiko's screams, Nakajima frantically kept hitting the keys. Finally the data transfer LED lit up, and Craft sent a response. ACCORDING TO THE DATA YOU SENT, THE JELLY SUBSTANCE IS 58% WATER AND 17% ECTOPLASM. THE REMAINING MATTER IS NOT NATIVE TO THE PLANET AND CANNOT BE ANALYZED. >HAS THERE EVER BEEN A CASE OF SIMILAR MATTER BEING DISCOVERED BEFORE? YES. THIS CENTURY, SIMILAR MATTER WAS DISCOVERED IN A MAYAN TEMPLE AND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. > WHAT IS ITS WEAK POINT? I CANNOT MAKE A HYPOTHESIS DUE TO INSUFFICIENT DATA. HOWEVER, THE MATTER DISCOVERED UNDER A RELIEF IN THE MAYAN TEMPLE WAS REPORTED TO HAVE EVAPORATED WHEN IT CAME IN CONTACT WITH MERCURIC SULFIDE-BASED PAINT. > MERCURIC SULFIDE? YOU MEAN A MIXTURE OF MERCURY AND SULFUR. BUT I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE THAT. TELL ME HOW TO DEAL WITH HIM NOW! UNFORTUNATELY I DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT DATA TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER."
↑Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 1, Pages 50-51 "A viscous drop of water fell onto Nakajima's cheek. Listening closely, he could hear the steady sound of water coming from high above. Over the aeons, the lime deposits in this trickle had accumulated here and there along the path to form giant stalagmites. Nakajima touched the rising cliff to feel it. The surface of the cold stone was wet with condensation. When he scratched it, the rock crumbled away easily, revealing a new layer of red stone below. Idly recalling that the ancient red paint used in ancient Japanese tombs was mercuric-sulfide based, Nakajima suddenly remembered Craft's words. When explorers had discovered material that was apparently part of a demon's body in a Mayan temple, it evaporated when it came into contact with their mercuric-sulfide based paint. In other words, this tomb was designed specifically to keep demons out. His courage buoyed by this realization, Nakajima picked up Yumiko's body and walked toward the depths of the red valley. However, he’d never had that much in the way of stamina in the first place. In less than ten minutes, his legs were exhausted. He would have liked Kerberos' help, but he didn't want to put any more stress on the already terribly-injured demon. Besides, this path with walls literally painted with demon repellent would hardly be the most appropriate place for Kerberos.
↑Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 1, Page 51 "Yomotsu-Shikome took a step forward. As Nakajima met her gaze, he carefully laid Yumiko down, wiped the cold sweat on his hands onto his slacks, and picked up his handheld computer. "Kerberos, please come here." Before the white haze that emerged from the liquid crystal display could even take on a rough outline of its shape, it vanished with a weak bark. Apparently, the pathway’s crimson paint really did seal off the power of the demon beast.
↑Digital Devil Story Sword of Flame, Chapter 2, Page 53 "Loki descended the passageway that took Nakajima hours to traverse in mere minutes. Soon the blob of flesh made a squishing sound as it dropped to the stone floor of the burial chamber plaza. The moment he touched the floor, his outer membrane hissed smoke as it started to melt. "Damn you!" Loki quickly transformed back into his bronze body. Kneeling, he let loose a terrible howl. He could not stand the chemical reaction that took place when his protoplasmic body came into contact with the mercuric sulfide. Between his eyes, the one gelatinous place on his body throbbed and pulsated.
Explanations
The following is an explanation of the various status effects of Megami Tensei
Prevents any action in battle. Usually caused by Ice skills and generally only lasts for one turn. In later games, attacking a frozen enemy is guaranteed to cause a critical hit.
Prevents any action in battle. Usually caused by Electricity skills and generally only lasts for one turn. In later games, attacking a shocked enemy is guaranteed to cause a critical hit.
Prevents the target from moving. This persists even on the field and is treated as similar to being dead. In most games, if the protagonist is petrified, it triggers a game over. In some games, Force spells will shatter a petrified opponent.
Bomb is implanted in party member. When those inflicted with this status are hit, they explode, dealing damage to the entire party. Defending will prevent damage. In the Devil Children series, only the character inflicted with Bomb is hurt when hit by Fire attacks.
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Devil Children series
Attack is increased, but the afflicted will attack anyone other than themselves as if they were Charmed. In the Persona series, Rage lowers the afflicted's defense and agility.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Persona 3 Persona 4 Persona 5
Down
Character may get their turn skipped and they take more damage. Overlaps with other ailments.
Persona 3 Persona 4 Persona 5
Hungry
Hungry characters will become indecisive. On their turn, they will either not take action and receive a small amount of Almighty damage or attack an ally.
Reduces affected character's outgoing damage by 25%, its evasion to 0 and increases damage taken by 25%. At the end of a turn with a party holding this character, there's a 5% chance that another character will be infected.
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Lost
Flynn cannot summon or fuse the affected demon and is forced to reunite with said demon through an encounter.
Reduces affected character's outgoing damage by 25%, its evasion to 0 and increases damage taken by 25%. At the end of the party's turn or an individual party member's turn, if a party member is afflicted, there is a 5% chance that another party member will be infected.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalpyse
Lost
Nanashi cannot summon or fuse the affected demon and is forced to reunite with said demon through an encounter.
Possession occurs when the demon inhibits the characters body. When a possessed character summons a persona, there's a high chance that the possessed character will attack instead.
Affected Targets may attack random party members with weapons when a support skill is used on anyone but the envied target for a turn.
Persona 5 / Royal
Ache
After a successful hunt, the character that just ate might get affected by a stomach ache. Occasionally inflicted as a side effect from eating a Moldy Roll. This prevents the character from gaining any AP after the battle. Allies also won't get any AP from the consumed monster, if AP sharing skills are set.
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Bat
Reduces all stats and makes the affected character weak to Force. Wears off over time or when battle ends. Does not override passive skills that affect Force resistance.
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Egg
When the team holding the affected character has their next turn, the affected character takes a large amount of Almighty damage and a Maggot is summoned next to them.
Devil Survivor
Gallery
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou's action artwork as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou's side artwork as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou's cloaked artwork as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou's capeless artwork as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou's sword as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou's gun as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
One of Raidou's demon tubes as it appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou artwork
Raidou artwork with in-game model
Capeless model
Raidou when he is under the effects of the curse the Herald of Yatagarsu transferred to him
Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Raidou as he appears in Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Raidou as he appears in Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Raidou as he appears in Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Raidou as he appears in Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon Plus artwork
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Raidou in Nocturne
Raidou in Nocturne HD
Raidou and Gouto in Nocturne HD
Raidou summoning Tsuchigumo
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Raidou as he appears in the Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers remake
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito
Raidou as he appears in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito
Raidou post event celebration
Raidou praising Nagi
Raidou design in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito
Other
Promotional artwork of a priest drawn by Kaneko for Kadokawa. Though bearing a resemblance to Raidou, it was drawn in 2000 and later used as inspiration for Raidou.