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Persona 3 Club Book: World Guide Q&A [Translation] Part 1 (Pages 174-176)

OK, you are probably all wondering where the letters for yesterday and today have been. Well, seeing how I have recently realized that I am using a lot of information in these letters that the majority of English-speaking fans has no access to, I have decided to share with you one of my primary sources that I refer to for questions regarding the inner working of the current Persona Universe:

Enter the “Persona 3 Club” Book (ペルソナ倶楽部 - P3 - Persona3). This book was released in December 2006, just a few months after the initial release of Persona 3. It is often mistakenly referred to as an “Artbook”, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.

In reality, the first chapter of this book is a recap of Persona 1, Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, commented by Kazuma Kaneko. The majority of the following chapters contain character profiles of all of Persona 3’s characters and a collection of selected fanart and fanfic regarding the Main Characters, as well as the occasional Yonkoma. 

However, what’s most interesting and relevant to me is the last chapter of the book. Pages 174 to 207 form the “World Guide Q&A”. This section, written by an Atlus Staff Member, reveals a lot of important backstory and supplementary information regarding the inner workings and rules of the current Persona Universe, especially regarding Nyx, Deities, Shadows, Plumes of Dusk, and much more. The Information given in this “World Guide” chapter is definitely canon. This is proven by the fact that, though this book was published in 2006, many of the concepts first mentioned in it have since implemented into the games. It indirectly explained Erebus before there was a P3FES, the Shadow Selves before there was a Persona 4, and a lot of information quickly dumped onto us in Ultimax actually originated from this book as well (and was also much better explained in it.) It can thus be assumed that Persona 5 is probably going to be using concepts from it as well. 

Seeing how the “World Guide Q&A” is written in a dialog-style which fits quite well with the format of the letters on this blog, I’ve decided to translate it in the same way I’m writing letters for this blog, using sprites instead of names to indicate who is speaking. Aside from that, this is an absolutely authentic translation of the book’s contents, as far as my abilities allowed it, and I am paying great attention to not mistranslate anything that is said, so this translation will be usable as a reference for the Fandom

That said, enough with the introductions! Follow me under the cut to take a look at facts about the Persona Series that were never officially released for an English-Speaking audience! Have fun and enjoy! ♪

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Questions covered in this Part:

Q: Could you tell me what Nyx really is, bluntly and unpoetically?

Q: What exactly is this “Fall” that Nyx was going to bring?

Q: What are Shadows?

Q: What does it concretely mean “To be eaten by Shadows”?

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@platyroonism I do wish Toby could've put this in the game, but I can see why he didn't. I'm glad he has given us this beauty, though

We'll be eating good tonight, guys 🍽😌

Rare sprite of Sans being extremely angry, from Toby Fox's Official Twitter.

I think it's based on this!

Yo this looks sooo cool

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNDERTALE!!!!! I can finally release my baby into the world!!

I worked very hard on this game for a good three weeks and I am so proud to say that I finally finished it!!! It’s a visual novel/almost dating sim/choose your adventure game where you are invited at the skelebros house for a movie night, and everyone knows a lot of stuff can happen during a movie night…

After all it’s been months since you’ve seen the bros, who knows what the waky skeleton have been up to while you were gone?

DOWLOAD “MOVIE NIGHT” HERE ON GAMEJOLT!! <—

There are more than 10 different endings and a good handful of awful humor so have fun exploring the game and its multiple different choices!!

You don’t need to install anything just dowload the file, unzippit and you are good to go! I really hope you’ll enjoy it a lot  of effort went into it qvq

The inspiration of making a ren’py game came after I played “The Great Noodle Jape” by nighttimepixels so give that a go if you haven’t!

GOD MY HEART ❤❤❤

I need everyone to watch this I’m smiling so fucking big

Bro is really me. Folded up on the floor of my narrow as hell hallway has to be a personal favorite, though.

So for sans asks, what about that man napping in entirely impossible places for him to be napping?

The man sure likes to pick his spots

please...no💀😭

...@nachosforfree

BECAUSE SINGING KILLED MY GRANDMA OK

I have something I need to get off my chest....

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If Papyrus is sad I'm throwing Lancer and having a fit

i dont want my baby sad

@carlyraejepsans

Papyrus: I would tell you about taxes, but your father files those. He is very good at it, so good the IRS keeps sending us very aggressive mail talking about someone named FBI? I don't think Sans wants to meet them, though, since every time we get something from them, we have to move to a new country and change our name! Only 3, and you already have 5 names WOWIE!

Max: * baby noises*

Tonight on My Husband Doesn’t Know How to Baby Talk

“Ma’am, are you aware that these, right here are your hands? They belong to you. And you get to decide what happens with them. So when you use these hands to pull your binky out of your mouth that is not necessarily a dad problem. I’ll fix it obviously i just want you to acknowledge it’s not my fault”

The way tumbler is setup on my phone made the whole experience even better since I can only see one panel at a time.

I laughed for like 3 mins before stopping and looking at it again only to start laughing even harder XDD👏👏 beautiful

Indecent.