I am going to start building my Persona project in art form, here. The next N deviations, with a couple of exceptions, will be part of this. This has no actual relation to the video games, except that the universe borrows a few of the concepts and mechanics. There will be no Persona characters from the actual canon, just from my completely unrelated universe.

Higher Shadows: intelligent/sentient Shadows who are very territorial and always have some agenda or another.

ARC 1: ISENBERG
- Xanthros
- Archaeon
- Gomora
- Dyne
- Janus
- Virius

ARC 2: AUGUSTINE
- Phoebus
- Minoru Takumi/Xanthros Incarnate
- Azala
- Cosyra
- Nemesis
- Kyran
- Aletheia

Lower Shadows: lesser beings that cannot speak, but have varying degrees of animal intelligence. They can be augmented by awakened humans and attain reasonable levels of thought if they are trained enough. They all have names, but not all of them even know that. Some of them are just ambiguous blobs of protoshadow, and don't belong to anyone in particular.

- Thyxis
- Voraus
- Gabriel
- Sidereus
- Optians
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Humans: can be awake or not. They may have dreams of their Shadows or otherwise see what's going on on the other side. They usually wake up due to Shadow activity causing disturbances in their minds. Humans with Higher Shadows are often called 'patrons.'

ARC 1: ISENBERG
- Allison Jaeger
- Loren Vaughn
- Peter Donovan
- Seth Galveston
- Shane Walter
- Miranda Schuyler

ARC 2: AUGUSTINE
- Robert Jaeger
- Hans Rosenthal
- Joshua Anderson
- Nathaniel Keaton
- David Jenicek