Treasure

Treasures are recurring items in the Megami Tensei series.
==Appearances==
*Megami Ibunroku Persona
*Persona 2: Innocent Sin
*Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
*Persona 3 / FES / Portable
*Persona 4 / Golden
*Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
*Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
*Persona 5 / Royal
**Persona 5 The Animation The Day Breakers
==Profile==
===Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth===
At the end of every labyrinth, a treasure chest is protected by a Labyrinth Guardian. Upon opening each treasure chest, a memento of Rei's life is found. Each unlocks more and more of both Rei and Zen's lost memories.
===Persona 5 / Royal===
There are two types of treasure in Persona 5: the items in the protagonist's inventory marked as "treasure," gained from dungeons, and the plot-related, corrupted desires that the Phantom Thieves steal in order to reform adults' hearts. Treasure in the protagonist's inventory has no purpose and can be sold in the real world.
The corrupted hearts all appear as Treasures for the Phantom Thieves to steal, and when they're successfully stolen, the adults progressively feel remorse for their actions. Initially, these treasures appear as a formless cloud of rainbow energy, as the Palace's host is not focused on that treasure. However, if the host feels "threatened" of having their secret exposed, their Treasure manifests a physical form, usually something related to the source of their distortion. The Phantom Thieves achieve this by issuing a calling card directly to the Palace's owner in the real world. Once taken out of the Palace, the host's world collapses into nothingness. As such, the host has lost their distorted desires, causing them to suffer immense guilt over their sins, to the point of making them willingly confess their crimes in public. As for the Treasure, when it's moved to the real world, it becomes a mundane but valuable item, representing the literary source of their distortions, which the Thieves sell to finance themselves.
==== List of Treasures ====
Target 	Form in the Metaverse 	Form in the real world
Suguru Kamoshida 	Crown 	Olympic gold medal
Ichiryusai Madarame	The original Sayuri painting, golden frame	The original Sayuri painting, no frame
Junya Kaneshiro 	Gold bars 	Golden briefcase full of fake money
Futaba Sakura 	Herself 	Herself
Kunikazu Okumura 	Spaceship core 	Model spaceship kit
Sae Niijima 	Police notebook 	Sae's "justice"
Masayoshi Shido 	Golden steering wheel 	Legislator's pin
Mementos 	Holy Grail 	Holy Grail
Takuto Maruki 	Golden torch 	Newspaper clipping about the murder of Rumi's parents
Sae Niijima is the only Palace ruler who does not have her Treasure directly revealed, as it was deliberately never stolen so her Palace and Shadow could be used to outmaneuver Goro Akechi. However, even while her Treasure wasn't manifested, the party would notice it took some shape, before Makoto deduces it's a police notebook. Later following the events of the game, Sae speaks with the protagonist in private, telling him that her "treasure" is the "justice" she uses to protect those important to her.
Although Sae's Treasure was never stolen, her heart was instead changed by persuading both her Shadow and her real self. As the protagonist is released from juvenile hall at the end of the game, Sae asks him what her Treasure was; he does not provide her with a straight answer, and she relents, deciding that it no longer matters.
Futaba Sakura is another exception as she herself is her Palace's treasure. In reality, although Futaba was technically distorted, the trauma caused her to manifest hallucinations that convinced her she's killed her mother. But due to the nature of her distortions, she wanted to escape from said Palace to return to her former self, which she would do by entering her own Palace, awakening to her Persona and leaving it on her own.
The Holy Grail was the treasure at the core of Mementos, making it the collective treasure of the entire population of Tokyo. Despite this, unlike any other treasure, the Holy Grail is also a physical deity, and its true form is the "God of Control," Yaldabaoth, formed by humanity's collective desire to be free from the burdens of choice, even if it means being controlled and culled. Yaldabaoth uses this to fabricate extensive distortions, whose purpose are seemingly two-fold, it would decide if humanity was willing to think for itself, and if not, it would wipe out all life and start over. In reality, Yaldabaoth would never let either situation happen. If either concept emerges victorious, it will proceed to do what it wishes to do anyway, merging the Metaverse with reality and having the public ignore its presence, establishing itself as the only savior of the masses.
===Persona 5 The Animation The Day Breakers===
When the Phantom Thieves defeated Kazuya Makigami's Shadow, his Treasure takes the form of a key. When his Treasure was taken, he feels remorseful for physically abusing his brother Naoya Makigami and the crimes he committed with his fellow thieves.
==References==
Category:Persona
Category:Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Category:Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Category:Persona 3
Category:Persona 4
Category:Persona 5
Category:Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth