Philemon (Megami Tensei)

==Summary==
Philemon is an important and recurring figure in the Persona series, serving as a guide and mentor to the protagonists of the first 3 games. His appearance is normally that of a young man wearing a theatrical mask with a butterfly motif, as well as some formal attire. Philemon's symbolism is deeply tied to the Jungian themes that the series are based on, with Philemon in particular embodying the archetype of "Wise Old Man" that Jung dreamt of. He resides in, and is the embodiment of The Collective Unconscious, and he aids individuals in discovering and harnessing their inner selves, known as Personas. 
He rarely intervenes directly choosing to let things play out and the characters to handle conflicts on their own. Philemon's ultimate goal is to help humanity achieve a deeper grasp of reality, subsequently helping them to achieve an enlightened state he dubs "Perfection". Although Philemon is often depicted as more of a neutral observer, he does have a benevolent view of humanity, betting humanity's existence onto their potential for growth
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: Low 1-A | At least 1-A
Key: Nodens | Philemon
Name: Nodens, Philemon, Wise Old Man, Saint-Philémon
Gender: Inapplicable, assumes a male appearance
Age: Unknown
Classification: Elder God, Ruler of the Abyss, Archetype as Nodens | Archetype, Creator of All Unconscious actions, Embodiment of The Collective Unconscious as Philemon
Powers and Abilities:
As Nodens
Megami Tensei Physiology (Type 3, 4, and 5 As Nodens is a natural resident of the Kadath, the realm of the archetypes. both physical and abstract entities derive from archetypes), Acausality (Type 5, Having escaped existence, which entails continuity, change, motion, transience, impermanence, and one thing leading to another, they reside in a "a shore of freedom, unrestrained from all of causality."), Transduality (Type 2, Nirvana is one giant I devoid of any differentiation as individuality itself is just an illusion, a place where all things achieve oneness in a all-in-one and one-in-all), Beyond Dimensional Existence (Type 1, Is completely beyond the concept of dimensions and coordinates), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 1, There is no such thing as "existence" in Nirvana, a void, sea of nothingness), Abstract existence (Type 1 Exist in a entirely conceptual realm existing as "elemets of diamonds" or the ideas which are the initial forms of everything), Magic, Fire Manipulation, Curse Manipulation, Death Manipulation (Type 1 and 2), Resistance Negation, Poison Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Attack Reflection, Invulnerability, Damage Reduction, Gravity Manipulation and Negation to Law Manipulation (Via skills), Power Bestowal and Statistics Amplification (Personas are the powers of demons taken by humans for themselves, amplifying their defense, strength e.t.c.), Invulnerability (As shadows and demons operate outside of laws of physics, demons need a matching wavelength to be vulnerable to damage, and military weapons being ineffective, and the same is largely applicable to shadows as conventional weaponry and attacks are shown to be ineffective and need persona users or specially crafted weaponry to receive damage), Negation to Invulnerability (Aside from engaging each other in combat, are directly stated to bypass immunities similar to their own due to having the capability to launch spiritual attacks), Regeneration Negation and Negation to Healing (You need spiritual powers to heal the damage dealt by demons), Extrasensory Perception and Enhanced Senses (Aside from interacting with one another, demons are shown to see through invisibility, sense the presence of spirits and other demons and persona users being able to recognize other persona users, and said to be feeling like a radar), Mind Manipulation and Possession (Taking on a persona that is stronger than you will cause it to take over your mind which is shown to be true when Elizabeth attempts to summon Zeus), Telepathy (Personas and Demons are shown to communicate telepathically), Aura (Demons and Personas emmit a pressure/aura that can push things away), Biological Manipulation, Technology Manipulation and Possession (Demons can fry brains, and possess computers by hacking), Space-Time Manipulation (Persona is mastering the shadow's ability to manipulate space-time for themselves, with pocket realities of demons and shadows being established to be universal space-times), Force-Field Creation, BFR (Demons can create barriers between worlds or just territories of the same world, as well as teleport someone to a different realm or area), Cosmic Awareness (Nirvana attainers are described as "someone who has transcended space-time, appearing infinitely and present in all times and places", "Omnipresent over time", can see and feel everything, "everywhere, at all times, and observe all possible worlds simultaneously", and "diffused everywhere, in all dimensions, and across all possibilities."), Ontologically Transcendent Physiology, Immaterial Physiology, Dimensional Travel (Natural residents of the expanse, a higher dimensional plane of existence inacessible to those bound by space and time, transcending the dimensions of past, present and future and operating on a conceptual form of time rather than physical and where upon entering all things that were material shed their physical form, and breaking free from space and time allowing them to travel freely, and are entirely made of human thought existing as pure phenomena like concepts of infinity), Immortality (Type 5, Naturally exist in a state where neither life or death are a thing)
Resistance to Subjective Reality, Reality Warping, Flow Manipulation, Axiom Manipulation, Ontological Property Manipulation (Type 1 and 2), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3; Nature 2), Law Manipulation, Existence Erasure (Type 4 and 3), Space-Time Manipulation, Higher Dimensional Manipulation, (The further away a reality is from the human world, the harder it is to manipulate through observation), Fire Manipulation. Earth Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Lightning Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Curse Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Resistance Negation, Status Effect Inducement, Mind Manipulation (Via natural affinities), Heat Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Absolute Zero, Explosion Manipulation, Existence Erasure (Can survive various magic attacks, such as explosions caused by psychokenisis, heat of extremely high temperatures, ice attacks of complete atomic stasis, and existence erasure magic), Physics Manipulation (Naturally operate outside the laws of physics), Information Manipulation (Type 2) and Petrification (Demons can live through Brahman's rays which is a corruption of data that causes petrification and calamities all over earth)
As Philemon
Same as before, as well as Megami Tensei Physiology (Type 1 As the sources of the human mind, and embodying them should have the same capacities as the human mind), Higher Dimensional Manipulation (Expanse, a higher dimensional reality, is created by human thoughts), Subjective Reality (The entire world is made of cognition, is shaped by the feelings and thoughts of humans), Reality Warping and Flow Manipulation (Humanity has tremendous control over the flow of reality), Axiom Manipulation (By assigning answers to phenomena without an answer, humanity changes their beliefs into truths), Power Bestowal (Collective beliefs are what grant gods their powers), Power Nullification (As humanity bestows power, so too can they deny it), Ontological Property Manipulation (Type 1 and 2 Humanity's observation grants things determinance and binds them to language, and language is what makes 1 thing distinct from everything else), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2) and Non-Physical Interaction (Humans shape and grant individuality to demons, with demons being largely conceptual entities), Law Manipulation (Can apply rules upon reality that are enforced automatically), Existence Erasure (Type 4 and 3 Denial of something's existence leads to it's erasure as something that disappears from cognition cannot exist), Space-Time Manipulation (The collective refusal to see time move forward distorted space and time, and made time stop moving forward), Accelerated Development and Reactive Evolution (Humans go stronger as they fight, even in the face of opponents that are ontologically superior to them. CU is also something that directly evolves alongside humans), Resistance Negation, Death Manipulation (Type 1 and 2), Negation to Law Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Damage Boost, Fire Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Absolute Zero, Electricity Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Power Nullification, Statistics Reduction, Regeneration Negation (Via skills)
Resistance to Subjective Reality, Reality Warping, Flow Manipulation, Axiom Manipulation, Ontological Property Manipulation (Type 1 and 2), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3; Nature 2), Law Manipulation, Existence Erasure (Type 4 and 3), Space-Time Manipulation, Higher Dimensional Manipulation, (The further away a reality is from the human world, the harder it is to manipulate through observation), Fire Manipulation. Earth Manipulation, Wind Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Electricity Manipulation, Lightning Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Curse Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Resistance Negation, Status Effect Inducement, Mind Manipulation (Via natural affinities), Heat Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, Absolute Zero, Explosion Manipulation, Existence Erasure (Can survive various magic attacks, such as explosions caused by psychokenisis, heat of extremely high temperatures, ice attacks of complete atomic stasis, and existence erasure magic), Physics Manipulation (Naturally operate outside the laws of physics), Information Manipulation (Type 2) and Petrification (Demons can live through Brahman's rays which is a corruption of data that causes petrification and calamities all over earth)
Attack Potency: Low Outerversal (Nodens exists as an archetype, a natural resident of Kadath Mandala, a reality that in a state that predates, and exceeds the "I", achieving oneness with the reality in a all-in-one and one-in-all that is limitless in both being and self. Should also be comparable to the Faceless God, a manifestation of Nyarlathotep, who is the equal opposite of Philemon, within the domain of Kadath Mandala, similar to Nodens himself, and who is fought after, and as such is superior to, Umr-At-Tawil, the very boundary that allows individual existence without it collapsing into oneness, the absolute separation between differentiated and undifferentiated ) | Outerversal (Embodies the "Wise Old Man" Archetype, and existing in the deepest depths of The Collective Unconscious, equal opposite of Nyarlathotep, the archetype of existential destruction, both of them essentially being one unified existence, and representing the 2 main sides of The Collective Unconscious and freely warping the domain)
Speed: Omnipresent normally (A natural resident of the Kadath, a realm of the dissolution of the "I". Existing in such a state is described as "someone who has transcended space-time, appearing infinitely and present in all times and places", "Omnipresent over time", can see and feel everything, "everywhere, at all times, and observe all possible worlds simultaneously", and "diffused everywhere, in all dimensions, and across all possibilities."), Immeasurable when assuming a form (Exists beyond the concept of dimensions and coordinates) | Omnipresent normally (Same reasoning), Immeasurable when assuming a form (Exists beyond the realm of the Akashic Records, a medium that contains all concepts that make up reality, including past present and future, even further existing beyond the providence which contains the factors of reality on a scale that exceeds the records, including the the factors of space and time)
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Low Outerversal | Higher
Durability: Low Outerversal | Higher
Stamina: Inapplicable
Range: Low Outerversal | Higher
Standard Equipment: None 
Intelligence: Nigh-Omniscient in terms of knowledge (Archetypes are naturally diffused through all of existence, observing every single point in time, space, every dimension and possibility, being aware of it all) Intellectual Archetype (Exists as half of the fundamental origin of all consciousness and awareness, providing the basis for humanity's ability to recognize their surroundings and put them into words. WIth his own awareness being so vast, he is able to record information about God)
==Notable Techniques ==
As Nodens
 Gryva: Medium Almighty damage on a group of enemies
 Omega Cluster: Creates a field which automatically kills someone after an interval of time 
 Turbid Mist: Creates a mist of poison which cannot be defended against, as it's an almighty type
 Inferno: Creates fire in a wide area, attacking a group of enemies
 High Pressure: Deals a large amount of almighty damage by crushing a group of enemies
 Mudoon: Has a chance of killing anyone within it's effective range
 Defense Type: Creates a barrier that nullifies or reflects any attack that comes it's way
As Philemon
 Aramgeddon R: An Almighty type attack that completely annihilates anything within it's range, dealing a non-specified amount of damage 
 Eternal White: Deals a lot of holy damage within the casted area, healing Philemon relative to the damage dealt
 Guard Punish: A wave that deals high amounts of almighty damage, the target emplyoing defensive strategies double the damage inflicted
 Photon Cannon: A beam of light that inflicts a lot of physical damage
 Spectra Force: Inflicts a lot of damage in an area with the element being randomly choosing(Phys, Mind, Nerve, Dark, and Holy are excluded)
 Transient Ripple: Nullifies all buffs, barriers and regeneration
Almighty Element: The highest order of magic within Megami Tensei, allowing the user to ignore conventional resistances, immunities, reflective barriers, and absorption, or even Law Manipulation. Spells of this magnitude bring "annihilation beyond death", turning the target into nothingness
Kaja/Nda: Skills that allow the user to amplify or reduce the statistics of the target to extreme degrees, as Kaja allowed people to survive lethal attacks with only seemingly minor injuries
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