Treasure Demon

Treasure Demon or Rare Persona, is an umbrella term for a collection of rare Shadows/Personas that only appear in Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, and Persona 5 Strikers.
==Appearances==
*Persona 5 / Royal
*Persona 5 Strikers
==Profile==
===Persona 5===
Treasure Demons only begin appearing from May 18th onward in Madarame's Palace and subsequently the rest of the Palaces and Mementos, which can drop a large sum of money and EXP when defeated. When breaking a search object or opening a treasure chest, there is a small chance the shadow of a rare Persona will pop up instead (in the form of a large gem) and attempt to escape from the protagonist. The chance of their appearance in Mementos can be increased by venturing there during bad weather. The infiltration item Treasure Trap can be used to multiply the appearance rate.
Fleeing from a Treasure Demon in Mementos will not cause it to respawn immediately: the party has to enter another battle with a Shadow to respawn the Treasure Demon on the field. This may be exploited to spawn the Treasure Demon that the protagonist needs to complete the compendium. Causing The Reaper to appear and engaging it in battle also helps respawn the Treasure Demon afterwards (however, the party's Agility must be high to escape.)
When engaged against a Treasure Demon in battle, it will remain stumped for a few turns but quickly flee on its 3rd. Knocking it down and then asking it to join will recruit the Persona instantly. Because many of these Treasure Demons have a wide range of elemental resistances in P5, it is recommended to rank up Shinya Oda's Confidant to unlock the ability "Down Shot," which guarantees knocking down the target regardless of resistance in exchange for firing all remaining bullets (or a portion of remaining bullets if one has ranked up his Confidant to 6.) Another option is to gamble with Physical skills with a high Critical rate (e.g. Lucky Punch, a skill available to Morgana) because none of the Treasure Demons except Stone of Scone null, repel or drain Physical damage. Regardless, odds of landing Criticals against enemies that resist Physical is reduced, so it is recommended to increase its odds of success with both Sukukaja and Rebellion.
Treasure Demons cannot be used in combat, however they can be used as ingredients for fusion: additionally, they all have powerful skills in their pools, which can be used as an effective means to having them inherited to a new Persona.
===Persona 5 Royal===
Treasure Demons have been made significantly easier to handle compared to the original game. When uncovering a Treasure Demon in the exploration, the player is no longer prompted to chase the Treasure Demon's symbol as the battle will automatically commence without further input. The Treasure Demons can no longer innately resist, or in the case of the later Treasure Demons, null or reflect almost every skill affinity thrown at them. With the sole exception of Koh-i-Noor, every Treasure Demon resists Physical and Gun skills, are weak to one type of affinity, and are neutral everywhere else. They normally cannot be knocked down with Technical hits since they can innately block status ailments, but if the party uses Chaînés Hook to ambush, Treasure Demons may be afflicted with Fear, Confuse, or Dizzy at the start of the battle, and thus, become vulnerable to Technical.
Damaging a Treasure Demon will cause it to drop money, which can be kept even if it or the protagonist's party escapes, although the amount is much less than what would have been dropped if the demon were successfully defeated. Treasure Demons in Challenge Battles do not drop money, however.
In Royal, Treasure Demons automatically join the protagonist when negotiation begins, and thus, cannot be asked for items, in spite of Treasure Skimmer being able to detect an item on the Treasure Demon. Aside from skills, Treasure Demons as Personas also have 3 traits each that can be passed down in fusion.
Orichalcum is the only new Treasure Demon introduced in Royal and is the eighth persona of the Faith Arcana. The Councillor Arcana is the only arcana in Persona 5 Royal not to have a Treasure Demon associated with it.
===Persona 5 Strikers===
Treasure Demons in Persona 5 Strikers are non-hostile, rare Shadows that randomly show up in Jails, with each Jail containing one specific type of Treasure Demon. Spawning regularly after the first encounter at Sendai Jail, they appear on the field as shining red jewels that roam around randomly and produce a distinctive sound effect that one can hear even if on the other side of an expansive map like the Okinawa Jail. Treasure Demons will not engage the party in combat unless attacked with a normal attack, Gun attack, or Persona Skill. The rate of Treasure Demon appearances can be boosted by raising the Security Level and leveling up the "Treasure Hunter" BOND Skill.
Once the party engages in combat with a Treasure Demon, a timer will appear at the top of the screen. In the first encounter at the Sendai Jail, the timer is set to 5 minutes while in subsequent encounters, it is set to 30 seconds. If the timer reaches 0, the Treasure Demon will flee and combat will end. The timer ticks in real-time and will not halt during actions that would normally stop field action, such as calling the Persona menu, using an All-out Attack, or using a Baton Pass. If the party successfully defeats a Treasure Demon, it will drop large amounts of EXP and money, as well as either rare Skill Cards or a random amount of various types of Incenses. Treasure Demons cannot be recruited as Personas.
On the standard difficulties, Treasure Demons have Resistance to all Elements that they are not Weak to and do not resist Physical or Gun damage. On Merciless, Treasure Demons instead Resist Physical and Gun, and Null all Elements besides their weakness.
==List of Treasure Demons==
===Persona 5 / Royal===
Name 	Level	Arcana	Location(s)
Regent 	10 	 	Madarame's PalaceMementos - Path of Qimranut, Aiyatsbus, ChemdahMementos - Path of Da'at (P5R)
Queen's Necklace	15 	 	Kaneshiro's PalaceMementos - Path of Kaitul
Stone of Scone 	20 	 	Futaba's PalaceMementos - Path of Akzeriyyuth
Koh-i-Noor 	25 	 	Okumura's PalaceMementos - Path of Adyeshach
Orlov 	30 	 	Niijima's PalaceMementos - Path of Sheriruth
Emperor's Amulet	35 	 	Shido's PalaceMementos - Path of Sheriruth (after clearing Shido's Palace)
Hope Diamond 	40 	 	Mementos - Depths of MementosMementos - Path of Da'at (P5R)Shido's Palace (P5R; very rare)Mementos - Path of Sheriruth (after clearing Shido's Palace; very rare)
Crystal Skull 	50 	 	Mementos - Qliphoth WorldMementos - Path of Da'at (P5R)Shido's Palace (P5R; very rare)Mementos - Path of Sheriruth (after clearing Shido's Palace; very rare)
Orichalcum 	60 	 	Maruki's Palace
===Persona 5 Strikers===
Name 	Level	Location
Precious Pink 	18 	Shibuya Jail
Diabolus Jewel 	27 	Sendai Jail
Frozen Blood 	38 	Sapporo Jail
Vanitas 	42 	Okinawa Jail
Apple of Rage 	47 	Kyoto Jail
Amulet of Heroes 	59 	Osaka Jail
Abyssal Bezoar 	62 	Jail of the Abyss
Sacrifical Offering	64 	Tree of Knowledge
==Fusing==
Treasure Demons cannot be equipped for combat but can be used in fusion. Similar to Demons of the Element race in other Megami Tensei games, fusion with Treasure Demons will either rank a Persona up or down by 1 or 2 ranks in the same Arcana, this allows a simpler way to complete the Persona Compendium or deal with an issue when DLC Personas get in the way of the usual fusion recipe. Treasure Demons do contribute towards the completion rate of the Persona Compendium.
The result yielded from fusion with Treasure Demons takes the current level of another ingredient Persona into account instead of the fixed base level that a persona starts in. That means one can train a Persona to the desired level in order to gain different Personas of the same Arcana out of this fusion. For example, one cannot fuse Regent with Arsène of level 8 or lower because there is no Fool Persona lower than level 8 besides Arsène himself, but one can fuse Regent with level 9 Arsène which yields Obariyon who is a level 8 Fool Persona.
Fusing two Treasure Demons simply results in another regular Persona. During a fusion alarm, fusing Treasure Demons will result in a Persona with a notably higher or lower rank than usual.
===Fusion between rare and regular Personas===
— 	 	Magic.	Pries.	Empre.	Emper.	Hiero.	Lov.	Char.	Just.	Herm.	Fort.	Stren.	Hanged	 	Temp.	 	 	 	 	 	Judge.	 	Counc.	—
Regent 	-1	+1 	-1 	-1 	+2 	+1 	-1 	+1 	+1 	+2 	+1 	-1 	+1 	+1	-1 	-2	-1	+1	-1	+1	-1 	-2	+1 	Regent
Queen's Necklace	+1	-1 	+1 	+2 	-1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	-1 	-1 	-1 	+1 	+1 	-1	+1 	+1	-2	-1	+2	-1	-1 	+2	+1 	Queen's Necklace
Stone of Scone 	-1	+2 	-1 	-1 	+1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	-1 	+2 	-2 	-1 	+1	-1 	-1	+1	+1	+1	-1	+1 	+2	+1 	Stone of Scone
Koh-i-Noor 	+1	-1 	+2 	+1 	-1 	-2 	+1 	-1 	+2 	+1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	+1	-1 	+1	+1	-1	-1	+1	-1 	+2	+1 	Koh-i-Noor
Orlov 	-1	+1 	+1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	+1 	+1 	-2 	+1 	+1 	-1	+1 	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1 	-2	-1 	Orlov
Emperor's Amulet	-1	+1 	-1 	+1 	+1 	-1 	-1 	-2 	+1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	+2 	-1	+1 	+2	+1	-1	-1	-1	+1 	+2	+1 	Emperor's Amulet
Hope Diamond 	+1	+1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	-2 	-1 	-1 	+1 	+1 	-1 	-1 	+2	-1 	-1	-1	+1	-1	+2	-1 	+2	+1 	Hope Diamond
Crystal Skull 	+2	+1 	+1 	+1 	-1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	-2 	-1 	-1 	-1 	+1	+2 	-1	-1	+1	-1	+1	-1 	+2	+1 	Crystal Skull
Orichalcum 	+1	-2 	+1 	+1 	-1 	+2 	-1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	-1 	+1 	+1	-1 	+1	-1	+2	-1	+1	+1 	+2	+1 	Orichalcum
=== Fusion between rare Personas===
— 	Orichalcum 	Crystal Skull 	Hope Diamond 	Emperor's Amulet	Orlov 	Koh-i-Noor	Stone of Scone	Queen's Necklace	Regent
Regent 	Kikuri-Hime	Mitra 	Kurama Tengu 	Andras 	Belphegor	Yaksini 	Suzaku 	Archangel 	—
Queen's Necklace	Queen Mab 	Hecatoncheir 	Orpheus Picaro	Isis 	Unicorn 	Setanta 	Naga 	— 	
Stone of Scone 	Ananta 	Unicorn 	Kaiwan 	Thoth 	Unicorn 	Sandman 	— 	 	
Koh-i-Noor 	Melchizedek	Girimehkala 	Queen Mab 	Pale Rider 	Lilim 	— 	 	 	
Orlov 	Garuda 	Pale Rider 	Daisoujou 	Mitra 	— 	 	 	 	
Emperor's Amulet	Baphomet 	Magatsu-Izanagi	Girimehkala 	— 	 	 	 	 	
Hope Diamond 	Raoul 	Hanuman 	— 	 	 	 	 	 	
Crystal Skull 	Yatagarasu 	— 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Orichalcum 	— 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==Trophies & Awards==
Trophy 	Icon	Description 	For 	Reward
A Phantom Thief's Duty	 	Obtain a Treasure Demon. 	P5 trophy 	
The Purpose of a Thief	 	Obtained a Treasure Demon. 	P5R trophy 	
Lucky Star 	 	Encounter 30 Treasure Demons.	Thieves Den	30P
All That Glitters 	 	Defeated 10 Treasure Demons. 	P5S trophy 	
==Gallery==
Regent.jpg|Regent
Queen%27s_Necklace.jpg|Queen's Necklace
Stone_of_Scone.jpg|Stone of Scone
Koh-i-Noor.jpg|Koh-i-Noor
Orlov.jpg|Orlov
Emperor%27s_Amulet.jpg|Emperor's Amulet
Hope_Diamond.jpg|Hope Diamond
Crystal_Skull.jpg|Crystal Skull
Orichalcum.jpg|Orichalcum
==Trivia==
*All Treasure Demons within their original appearances are modeled after luxurious jewelry or ceremonial stones instead of mythological figures.
**Treasure Demons in Strikers, in contrast, instead solely resemble Regent, and their names allude to the Jails they are found in.
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