Persona 5 Royal
Persona 5 Royal

Persona Types & Arcana

Understand Persona Arcana in Persona 5 Royal. Learn about the 24 Tarot-based categories, their meanings, and how they influence fusion and combat.

Persona Types & Arcana

Personas in Persona 5 Royal are manifestations of the characters' psyches and are categorized by Arcana, which dictates their strengths, weaknesses, and the Confidants they are associated with. Understanding these Arcana is fundamental to effective Persona management, fusion, and combat strategy.

There are 24 Arcana in total, each represented by a Major or Minor Arcana card from a Tarot deck. The 22 Major Arcana are:

  • The Fool: Represents new beginnings and potential.
  • The Magician: Symbolizes power, skill, and resourcefulness.
  • The High Priestess: Represents intuition, mystery, and the subconscious.
  • The Empress: Symbolizes femininity, fertility, and nurturing.
  • The Emperor: Represents authority, structure, and control.
  • The Hierophant: Symbolizes tradition, conformity, and spiritual guidance.
  • The Lovers: Represents relationships, choices, and harmony.
  • The Chariot: Symbolizes willpower, determination, and control over obstacles.
  • Strength: Represents courage, compassion, and inner strength.
  • The Hermit: Symbolizes introspection, solitude, and inner wisdom.
  • The Wheel of Fortune: Represents destiny, cycles, and change.
  • Justice: Symbolizes truth, fairness, and cause-and-effect.
  • The Hanged Man: Represents sacrifice, new perspectives, and surrender.
  • Death: Symbolizes endings, transformation, and new beginnings.
  • Temperance: Represents balance, moderation, and patience.
  • The Devil: Symbolizes temptation, materialism, and addiction.
  • The Tower: Represents sudden change, upheaval, and revelation.
  • The Star: Symbolizes hope, inspiration, and faith.
  • The Moon: Represents illusion, intuition, and the subconscious.
  • The Sun: Symbolizes optimism, success, and vitality.
  • Judgement: Represents reckoning, rebirth, and awakening.
  • The World: Symbolizes completion, integration, and fulfillment.

The two Minor Arcana are **The Councillor** and **The Faith**, introduced in Persona 5 Royal. Each Confidant in the game is associated with a specific Arcana. When you fuse Personas of the same Arcana as a Confidant you have a high rank with, the resulting Persona will gain bonus experience, making it stronger and learn skills faster.