WMG / Shin Megami Tensei V

Pre-Release WMG's

From the teaser trailer: the tunnel full of demons? It's not a battlefield. It's a mass grave.

• The tunnel shown in the trailer is not tall enough to enable the demons shown there to stand up fully (Hell, one of the corpses is sitting against the wall, the ceiling just above his head). It's possible that something, or multiple thereof, dragged the corpses down into the tunnel.

Nanashi will appear in a small capacity

Mainline games tend to have cameos from the previous game; SMT 2 had the statue of the Hero of SMT 1, it's implied that Hijiri in Nocturne is Aleph, and Flynn is a major character in Apocalypse. Even Persona had Tamaki. The only exception is SMT 4, where the Demi-Fiend doesn't appear at all. Apocalypse is the closest thing to a mainline game, and Flynn's already had his fun. Perhaps Massacre Nanashi is a bonus boss?

• The Demi-Fiend did appear... In Digital Devil Saga... and in this game as a DLC boss.

Bayonetta will appear as a guest character or an Optional Boss

Considering her series is a Spiritual Successor to Devil May Cry and Dante has appeared in SMT before, and since mainline SMT games and the Bayonetta games have become Nintendo-exclusives, it's not really a stretch.

• And since they're both owned by SEGA... No, the possibility is there. And they wouldn't have to replace her with Raidou later on.
• Possibly Jossed, since she's appearing in Shin Megami Tensei Liberation: Dx2.
  • As are Dante, Nero, and V, funnily enough.

Steven will be captured by the true big bad of the game, much like Igor in Persona 5

.If Steven makes an appearance, the villain of either the Monotheists or even the Divine Powers, will disguise themselves as him to throw off the protagonist. Also, the villain in question will do a WAY better job at hiding their cover.

• Though it would be difficult for them to capture him considering he can just teleport anywhere ... and that’s not even mentioning what he can do when he stands up.

God is not actually dead

YHVH is just one of the many avatars the Great Will has.

• Jossed. He's still dead.
• Not Jossed, I was referring to the Great Will, not YHVH.

The God that is said to be dead is...

Yaldabaoth. The fact that it takes place in Tokyo and and the very first thing we hear is "God Is Dead", it might be that it died from a Boom, Headshot!.

• YHVH from Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. Nanashi killed him off at the end, paving the way for problems in other worlds.
• Furthermore, it's pretty explicit that Yaldabaoth only thinks he's a God and that he's merely reflecting people's desires. If the Persona and Devil Summoner series take place at the same time, it means Raidou prevented the apocalypse in SMT I as per SMT IF, meaning that YHVH in that timeline seems to be content doing nothing much.
  • It's implied to be Kagutsuchi from Nocturne, though it isn't outright confirmed.

Shin Megami Tensei V will be a foil to Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

If we're to take the July 2020 trailer at face value, V's premise is that Lucifer and the forces of Chaos have won the war and outright killed (or at least severely weakened) God, reducing Tokyo to a wasteland not unlike Nocturne's Vortex World. Just as Lucifer empowered the Demi-Fiend with demonic strength, the demon who shows up to aid V's Hero could likely be an angel (he appears in a ray of blue-white light and appears to have metallic skin like many of the Heralds do) seeking to create a "Demi-Angel" of sorts as a champion to turn the tide; the Hero also has a very androgynous appearance, a quality often associated with heavenly beings.

Of course, the Hero/Player will ultimately be free to go along with this scheme, rebel, or outright Take a Third Option as par for the course with the franchise.

Law will still be the worst faction.

Law will still be the best faction.

Guesses as to who the leader of the Law Faction is this time.

• Returning Characters
  • YHVH
  • Demiurge
  • Shekinah
  • Merkabah

• New Candidates
  • Abel
  • Satan
  • Jesus
  • An Original Generation character

• All Jossed. It's Abdiel.

Final Bosses Prediction

• Note: Assuming the routes follow the Law-Neutral-Chaos Alignment System.
  • Law: Lucifer, potentially in his Helel form as a One-Winged Angel in the final battle.
  • Neutral: Like above, Lucifer, though in a different context.
    • Alternatively, a Greek God, possibly Chtonic like Hades.
  • Chaos: Shekinah
• Lucifer is confirmed as the final boss of every route, with a new form to boot.

Lucifer will be a Disc-One Final Boss

To subvert expectations, Lucifer, who from the trailers seems to be endgame or straight up Final Boss material will end up being fought somewhwere around the middle point like in Apocalypse.

Travis Touchdown will appear as a Guest Fighter.

I have absolutely no basis for this. Just thought it would be cool. Plus, think about this: Dante was included in Nocturne Maniax as promotion for Devil May Cry 2, since it came out at that time. No More Heroes III is set for a 2021 release, as is V. It would make sense from a promotion standpoint. Plus, Suda51 is a weird guy. You don't know that he isn't working things up with Atlus as you read this.

Like IV before it, there will be so much DLC that there'll be a semi-sequel like Apocalypse

It would allow any lingering plot threads left unresolved in the game to be wrapped up while at the same time, regardless of Law, Neutral, or Chaos, to face down YHVH and join the ranks of Godslayers in the SMT franchise like The Captain, Yu Narukami, Joker and Nanashi.

The game will revolve around the protagonist becoming a new god

Like Apocalypse and Nocturne before it, the protagonist has been chosen as a sort of candidate for this universe's deceased god. What kind of god he will become will depend on the player's choice, as is tradition.

• Sort of confirmed. He becomes one when he merges with Aogami.

The Tokyo you begin in, is not the REAL Tokyo

The Tokyo you come from is actually a haven for humans lost in the apocalypse, with an entire generation (Which the protagonist is part of.) unaware that they are souls that were supposed to be awaiting reincarnation. The main, at least at first, plot is working to let humans, and by extension the world itself, be properly reborn.

Da'at isn't actually an alternate universe - it's a Bad Future.

The protagonist is transported 20 years into the future to either recreate the world from scratch or return to his time and Set Right What Once Went Wrong.

• Jossed. Tokyo is actually a fake created by the Great Will's last miracle, and has been fading due to No Ontological Inertia after the Great Will died 20 years ago.

Possible identities of the characters on the cover.

Aside from the protagonist, Amanozako, and Hayataro, we don't know who the rest of the characters on the cover are. This is for speculation on their identities, so feel free to add your own suggestions.

• The Woman in Red:
  • Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess and one of the central figures in Shintoism.
    • Jossed.
  • Nuwa, the mother goddess in Chinese mythology.
    • Confirmed.
  • Kiyohime, based on her turning into a snake monster from the trailers.
    • Jossed.

• The Golden Warrior:
  • Nike, the Greek Goddess of Victory
  • Jophiel, the Archangel of Beauty
    • Both have been Jossed. Her name is Abdiel.

• The Green Pharaoh:
  • Osiris, the ruler of the dead in Egyptian mythology.
    • Jossed.
  • Ramesses II/Ozymandias, one of the most famous pharaohs in history.
    • Jossed.
  • Ptah or Khonsu, both green skinned.
    • Confirmed for Khonsu.

• The Tentacle Demon:
  • Cthulhu, one of the most famous creations of H. P. Lovecraft.
  • Charybdis, a Greek sea monster responsible for maelstroms.
    • Both Jossed, it has been confirmed to be Lahmu.

Potential DLC demons

DLC for the game is the more or less a given, and that includes the possibility of additional demons to fuse. As with the identity WMG, feel free to add in your own suggestions.

• Deity Izanagi: He’d be given a different design compared to his Persona counterpart, but would likely still specialize in Electricity skills. His special skill would probably be his Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, which he used to kill Kagutsuchi.

The reason for Yakumo’s golden eyes.

• Nuwa granted him a part of her power as part of their partnership. This allows him to fight angels and demons on even ground without having to rely on other demons. This is also why Nuwa calls Yakumo her “other half”.

There will be about six to seven endings in the game.

Instead of three main endings, there’ll be around six. Much like Strange Journey Redux, it’ll be divided by two per alignment, but here they’ll be “Light” and “Dark”. Light endings would be fairly moderate in how they embody the alignment’s ideals, while Dark endings would push those ideals to the extreme and would be more typical Shin Megami Tensei endings. There could be also be another ending where the protagonist does choose any side, choosing instead to go through with Aogami’s plans, much like the True Demon Ending in Nocturne, and to a lesser extent Apocalypse.

Here’s how it can look.

• Law: Yuzuru (Light), Koshimizu/Abdiel (Dark)
• Chaos: Ichiro (Light), Nuwa/Yakumo (Dark)
• Neutral: Tao/Miyazu (Light), Khonsu (Dark)
• TDE Equivalent: Aogami

• Jossed. It's four.
  • Uphold God's Order: Abdiel/Ichiro
  • Recreate the World: Yuzuru/Koshimitsu
  • Destroy the Throne: Nuwa/Yakumo
  • Create a World for Humanity Alone: No-one

Confirmed

The game involves temporary human/demon fusion, or other temporary demon transformation

• At the end of the trailer, a figure took the protagonist's hand, and something transferred between them. Super-Empowering, maybe?
  • This could also just be an excuse as to why your character is able to use magic, like the Demi-Fiend & the Magatama or Nanashi & Dagda.
• Maybe the protagonist can fuse with any demon in his/her party to gain their traits and powers (appearance would depend on the race used rather than individual demons with perhaps some special ones like the Jack's) This would also make their androgynous appearance useful as it wouldn't matter if they fused with one of the traditional male or female races.

• Confirmed. In the E3/PV-01 trailer, the mysterious man is shown fusing with the protagonist, becoming a being known as the Nahobino.

Odin will have an important role in the main plot

The first teaser centers a ton in Odin, which might suggest that he will be relevant. Whether he'll be the main antagonist, a faction's Dragon or another side entirely remains to be seen.

• Seems to be confirmed, as the third news report states that he is the head of Bethel’s North Europe branch.

The Law alignment will be portrayed in a more positive light this time around

Besides "Shekinah Glory" (miracle of God) showing up repeatedly in promotional material, the destroyed version of Tokyo is described as a "lightless age of corruption." Light has been used to symbolize the Law alignment, so this possibly means that the Law alignment is missing from the destroyed Tokyo, allowing the Chaos alignment to go unimpeded. Furthermore, people are yearning for a new messiah, a title that was attributed to the Law heroes and Law aligned player characters until Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse. So maybe SMT V will focus on the positives of the Law alignment and how, when not taken to an extreme, order is necessary.

• Doubtful, due to spoilers related to Strange Journey Redux involving Shekinah, which is a female YHVH portrayed as a tyrant.
  • Incorrect, YHVH is still in the Strange Journey Redux as the fusion of Metatron and Demiurge, and is content to let New Law go through and beat up Shekinah since the world will still be to his ideals. Shekinah also means divine presence, and may not entirely relate to the end boss of Strange Journey.
• Confirmed; while Abdiel is pretty much a classic Knight Templar, she's actually a rebel against the dominant Law faction, Bethel, who are A Lighter Shade of Grey. While Abdiel is still your ally in the Uphold God's Order route, that's after the gods stab Bethel's ideas in the back, and the her ending is actually one of the happier ones.

SMT V will be Law-Themed given the biases of previous games

• SMT I had the Hero canonically choose a neutral route, and the game more or less started the trend of the devs favoring neutral given that the player gets to confront more enemies than ususal.
• SMT II might have had you killing YHVH in a world that was harshly ruled by law on all routes but you were still effectively playing as a benevolent Clone Jesus. Aleph also appears as the Law rep on his cameo in SMTIV: Apocalypse.
• SMT III: Nocturne has the player take control of a half-demon with the Demi-Fiend's True Demon ending being his most iconic one due to Rule of Cool even if the world seems decimated by chaos. He is even the chaos rep and appears to be on the True Demon path in his cameo on SMTIV: Apocalypse.
• SMTIV and SMTIV: Apocalypse meanwhile are pretty neutral biased. Flynn is pushed to take the neutral path between the extremes of Law and Chaos in IV. His appearance in SMTIV: Apocalypse is also based on his Neutral Route as well as his other self's appearance in the DLC, contrasting from Aleph and Demi-Fiend. Finally, SMTIV: Apocalypse treats Law and Chaos as early bad endings, while this game's neutral routes either let you go full Omnicidal Neutral or Power of Friendship, which highlights the lows and strengths of Neutrality.
• Thus, V will favor Law, and if we go by order, VI might favor Chaos.
  • Jossed. The Golden Ending requires you to take the Neutral option initially ("Destroy the Throne"), but change your mind in the last moment to instead create a world for humanity alone, without any gods or demons.
    • Not necessarily, the Golden Ending of II was still neutral but the game was still themed towards law as a whole, and three of the V endings are all some variation of law with the exception of destroy the throne which also has the least content. The fourth ending meanwhile addresses the paradox of the Nahobino's choice as he still becomes a Top God and while not interfering, could not truly forge a world without Gods as the new order is enforced by his own Great Will, even if he chooses to watch on the sidelines. In a number of law endings, it's implied the angels and God step back once they are satisfied with humanity, and they are turned on by their own law faction if they refuse to do so as with the case of Abdiel in V and YHVH on II.
    • Not to mention you work with a mostly nicer Law themed faction in the form of Bethel and the true Goddess of the game is named after virgin Mary. Golden ending or not, the game is still themed around Law and how its ideals go beyond yhvh.
    • Finally, as far as the Nahobino himself is concerned he is happiest and proudest on the law route, as opposed to just optimistic on neutral, saddened on chaos, and desolate on the route of creating a world for humans alone since he has to let a clone take his place instead of living with humanity.

SMT V is actually the result of Lucifer hijacking something like Conception process.

Magatsuhi is clearly emerging from the Demons in the tunnel, which means this is a Vortex World, or something similar. Lucifer, with YHVH gone, took control of the Conception process and is instead using it as a crucible to purge the weak, with the strong becoming demon-like and siding with Chaos.

• Jossed. We learn that the realm the game takes place in: Da'at is an alternate version of Tokyo that used be home to humans until a war between angels & demons broke out 20 years prior, with the residents calling the version of Tokyo the protagonist comes from as "False Tokyo".
  • Actually it's implied to be confirmed as the game appears to be a Stealth Sequel to Nocturne. An Amala drum can be found and the offscreen war happened 18 years ago which is the release gap between V and Nocturne. Furthermore Michael's appearance alludes to the death of of other 3 archangels at the hands of Demi Fiend.

SMTV is connected to Nocturne.

The first trailer has our protagonist wake up in a ruined Tokyo surrounded by demons and is apparently tasked with shaping how this new world will go; basically the premise of Nocturne. Also, the first substantial bit of information on the game since its announcement all the way back in 2017 is also paired with the announcement of a HD remaster of Nocturne.

• In addition, the guy rescuing the protagonist in the 2020 trailer has his face conspicuously blacked out. Why do that if it wasn't a returning character?

• Jossed with the PV-01 trailer. We see the mysterious man's face, and he doesn't really look anything like the Demi-fiend. Also, the E3 trailer establishes that Da'at is an alternate Tokyo the protagonist finds himself in, though the Japanese trailer brings up the possibility that the Tokyo he lived in was some sort of lie. Either way, it's bit of a different situation than the Conception.
  • As stated elsewhere, this might actually be confirmed with the game's release as it's mentioned that the Conception happened 13 years ago and its been 13 years since Nocturne was released. With the presence of an Amala Drum and Michael being the only archangel you see as the other 3 were bosses to Demi Fiend, the game appears to be a Stealth Sequel.

Jossed

Aogami is a fragment or weakened form of a deity, likely the Great Will.

• Jossed. It's Susanoo.

Aogami is a future Nanashi long after the Massacre route

Aogami and the Nahobino both have golden eyes, which indicated Nanashi replacing YHVH as Creator God. For whatever reason (possible the Goddess of Tokyo invading, possibly a Conception), Nanashi fell from grace and lost control of his universe, and now he's just a regular god, but he kept the golden eyes. Aogami doesn't care what the Nahobino does with his power and supports him no matter what because being pressured into a route didn't work for him.

• Jossed. It's Susanoo.

The Law ending will involve recreating God in a more benevolent form

In keeping with Strange Journey Redux pulling some Author's Saving Throw on the Law endings to make them more sympathetic, the death of the old, tyrannical YHVH could pave the way for a Law protagonist to create a new, more benevolent incarnation.

• Jossed. The law ending is about reigning over Tokyo until he returns somehow, some day.

SMTV will be the grand return of Kaneko

All the flowers and such are symbolic of his return.

• Jossed, Doi is still the main designer of both humans and demons.

The main character of this story will be the girl in the trailers

She's a lot easier to see in the trailers than the guy. In the scene in the train station, it's easier to see the girl wearing light blue than the guy in black and white when they're both standing against black and white tiles. She also blocks the guy from view when they're attacked by demons.

• It's likely that their gender will be kept ambiguous. That way the MC can appeal to male, female & enby players alike and allow anyone to insert themselves onto them.
  • Both of these are Jossed: the protagonist is confirmed to be the boy in the flower-patterned school uniform. While very feminine, the protagonist is unambigously identified as male.
    • That doesn't take away the possibility of the protagonist being non-binary.
    • Outside of headcanons, that also doesn't seem very likely.

The white guy from the sky that takes the protagonists hand is...

A weakened form of YHVH or an avatar of him.

• Alternately, Infernal Akira from SMT 4. He looks an awful lot like him.
• Another possible theory that is based on the sign on it's chest which resembles a stylized Y. The closest similarity to this might be the Hebrew letter Tsade which connects to Tzadik, Righteousness. The angel of righteousness is Melchizedek.
  • Both have been Jossed. He's called Aogami.
    • The Daily Demon Showcase also features Melchizedek with his classic design.

The mysterious being is Taira no Masakado

As noted on the main page, the Nahobino's design essentially combines the armor of Masakado's II design with the blue hair of his Soul Hackers design. Assuming the form is meant to reflect the fusion between the mysterious man and the protagonist, it could be that man is yet another version of Masakado. It helps that Masakado has a number of roles in previous SMT games.

• Jossed. His name is Aogami.

The animation for Fusion Accidents.

When conducting Demon Fusion, the Nahobino plays an organ in a rather dramatic fashion, and lightning strikes by the end. When an accident happens, it will be because the Nahobino played off-key, then tries to correct his performance before the lightning strikes him directly.

• There isn't strictly a different animation for getting a Fusion Accident, just a red and black filter placed over the regular animation.

Miyazu is the Law or Chaos Heroine

In a deliberate Meta Twist, it's Yuzuru who dies in a Heroic Sacrifice to protect her or they have a massive falling-out, leading Miyazu to join Bethel or decide to become stronger at any cost to avoid being a burden, causing her to Take a Level in Badass and become your rival and/or Implied Love Interest on the route she takes.

• Jossed. She doesn't really get to do anything in the main story, with her only being a focus for one sidequest.

Da'at isn't actually an alternate universe - it's a Bad Future.

The protagonist is transported 20 years into the future to either recreate the world from scratch or return to his time and Set Right What Once Went Wrong.

• Jossed. The Tokyo the protagonist lived in is actually a fake created by the Great Will's last miracle, and has been fading due to No Ontological Inertia after the Great Will died 20 years ago.

Sahori’s death will split up the main group.

It’s clear from the trailers, particularly the story trailer, that Sahori will die at some point. The end of the Bethel trailer shows that they also wished they could’ve saved her if they knew about her situation sooner. Each of them will also have conflicting opinions of Bethel and how they handled it.

To be more specific:

• Ichiro would believe that Bethel left Sahori to die, and that they should’ve tried to save her when they had the chance. This would fuel a desire to get stronger so that he can protect others from suffering like Sahori did. He would defect from Bethel and join up with Nuwa and Yakumo.
• Yuzuru would side with Bethel on the matter, believing that they had done everything they could to save Sahori. Of course, he would wish that they could have tried to help her sooner if it meant she wouldn’t have to die. He also becomes much more protective of Miyazu, not wanting her to suffer like Sahori did, which would strain their relationship.
• Miyazu is a bit of a hard one, since there’s not much we know about her role in the story. But Yuzuru becoming over-protective could end up driving her away from him, where she could possibly side with Khonsu (if her green mittens and scarf are meant to be foreshadowing).
• Tao would feel conflicted, as recent events could’ve slowly worn down her loyalty to Bethel, but she would also believe that siding with Nuwa wouldn’t be the best course of action.
• The protagonist’s feelings on Sahori’s death would largely depend on the player’s choices, as he could either side with any of his friends or none of them.
  • Jossed. Tao dies along with Sahori only to come back at the end of the game as a goddess, joining the protagonist's party. Miyazu sort of fades from relevancy as the game goes on (only really starring in a sidequest), and the real event that splits the rest of group is Bethel's branches declaring independence from Abdiel and aiming to recreate the world as Nahobino themselves. Ichiro sides with Abdiel, and Yuzuru sides with Koshimizu AKA Tsukuyomi.

Post-Release WMG's

Possible plot of SMTVI

From the looks of things, the mainline SMT games follows a repeating pattern of similar plotlines depending on number. The odd numbered games (I, III: Nocturne, and V) take place fairly recently After the End with the ultimate goal being to recreate the world in some way, with Nocturne taking the cake of you waking up and exploring after what was implied to be just hours after it happened, while SMTI allows you to actually have some actual gameplay in pre-Cataclysm Tokyo before thrusting you 30 years after Tokyo is nuked, and V has you born and raised in a copy of Tokyo that continued to move forward about 18 years after the original becomes Da'at.

Meanwhile, the even numbered titles (II and IV) both have settings that take place at least a thousand years After the End in societies that have a strict caste based structure and heavily Law aligned, though the circumstances are different: II is the only direct sequel where after the Neutral ending of I, something went very wrong and we got a futuristic science fiction setting built on the worst aspects of Medieval caste systems; while IV went full Medieval Europe with the only aspects of technology past at least the Renaissance period are the gauntlets, the Demon Summoning Program, and the artifacts found from before the Apocalypse while the actual Modern Tokyo is stuck in an underground time bubble where only 25 years have passed compared to the implied several millennia on the surface .

Following this, the sixth game in the mainline series would follow a similar plot of the other even numbered games and be set in a society that comes thousands of a years after an initial apocalypse. However, the plot of said society being heavily caste structured or even Law aligned can be subject to change as long as the timeframe is kept, considering how vastly different the premises of the odd numbered games turned out (SMTI is merely metaphorical in resorting the world while in III and V it's literal, and even with III you're an outside aberration to the system while V you're a legit contender).

Panagia Tao is Amaterasu in all but name.

It seems a bit strange that the game has a Susano-o (Aogami) and a Tsukuyomi (Koshimizu), yet there's no mention of their iconic sister, Amaterasu. Until you take a closer look at Tao's Panagia form, whose stance bears a fairly close resemblance to Amaterasu's usual pose.

SMTIII Nocturne takes place in the same "universe" as SMTV

Specifically, it takes places after the Create a World for Humans ending in SMTV. As the narration for that ending implies, the world does not last forever and demons eventually resurface. Lucifer, realizing that he can't wrest the universe from the Mandala System through the Throne of Creation, decides to go for his next plan: the Labyrinth of Amala. Taking advantage of the Conception, he becomes more direct in his plans by creating the Demi-Fiend and having him collect menorahs. However, whether or not the Demi-Fiend follows through with that plan is up to him.

• It's implied III and V exist in the same Amala Space, but form different worlds in there - there was a failed attempt at Conception in V, but it was centered on a different Tokyo district. And if anything, V is a Stealth Sequel in a slightly different Alternate Continuity to the III.

There will be an Updated Re-release of the game.

It's practically a tradition at this point for Atlus. It could also give them a chance to address criticism of the game's story and characters by expanding on them through additional cutscenes and interactions. Not to mention the inclusion of a new area to explore and new demons to fuse.

• So far, there has been a confirmation of a complete version called Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.

The Condemnation took time to fade after God's death, so it lifted relatively recently

Miman are what you get if a Nahobino tries to fuse under the Condemnation; some say they tried too early. After God's death, a whole bunch of demons figured that the Condemnation was lifted and tried fusing, but turned into Miman instead. Nobody tried again, so they had no way of telling when the Condemnation actually lifted until the Protagonist came along.Maybe it only lifted when Tokyo started fading.

Sophia was the Lady in Black from SMT III

As the mother of demons and source of humaninty's Knowledge in Gnosticism, she would be a natural partner to Lucifer.

Pre-Release WMG's (Vengeance)

Guesses for the new demons introduced in the Vengeance Special Program

Since the woman with the red snake is confirmed to be Lilith, what are the identities of the demons depicted in the trailer?

• Given the fact that the demons are known as the Qadištu—an Akkadian term referring to sacred prostitution—and the fact that they are aligned with Lilith, they could be the mates of Samael, of which Lilith is one.
• Blonde lady:
  • Eisheth Zenunim, a princess of the glippoth ruling Gamaliel and one of Samael's mates. Her name in Hebrew means "Woman of Whoredom" and she acts coy in the trailer.
    • Jewish mythology said that she eats the souls of the damned and her first appearance in the trailer turns humans into magatsuhi (demon food and nourishment).
    • Half-Jossed. She is Namaah, not Eisheth Zenunim.
  • Hel, the ruler of Hel and goddess of the dead in Norse. Possibly collerates to her half-human and half-demonic appearance.
    • Jossed
• Pallid woman:
  • Mictlancehtual, Aztec goddess of death and consort of Mictlantecutli.
    • Jossed
  • Namaah, one of Samael's mates. She is said to be an "inhuman spirit" in Kabbalistic literature.
    • Half-Jossed. She is Eisheth Zenunim, not Namaah.
• Woman with a witch hat:
  • Aradia, goddess of witches in Wicca.
    • Jossed
  • Agrat bat Mahlat, one of Samael's mates, the "mistress of the sorceresses" and is related to Lilith, who is either her mother or possibly grandmother.
    • Further implies is her skill called "Queen's Decree", and she is known as a queen of the demons in Zoharistic Kabbalah.
    • Confirmed

New superbosses will be added to this version

There will likely be a few new superbosses added to Vengaence designed to challenge the player. Unlike the base game, they're not required to unlock the final boss, and if defeated, will cause the final boss to gain immense stat boosts. Here's a list of possible superbosses:

• TRUE Demifiend: A harder version of Demifiend who is Lv.200, and is far closer to his Digital Devil Saga counterpart in terms of stats, immunities and demon team. Unlike the original Demifiend fight, TRUE Demifiend will nuke your party on the spot if you or your demons come into the fight with any resistances/immunities except Null Sleep and Null Critical, or if you try to inflict status effects on him or his demons.
• Vishnu, Seth and Satan: Considering that Shiva was the Superboss of the base game, and was also a superboss in Digital Devil Saga 2, its only fair that Vishnu, Seth and Satan get to reprise their roles as superbosses.
• Creator Nanashi: Dagda will be a DLC demon in this version, and Danu is in the base version of the game. If possible, those two aren't the same ones from Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse but completing their respective quests could unlock a Bonus Dungeon based off Nanashi's new world in the Massacre Ending. During this battle Creator Nanashi^note His skills are Authoritative Stance, Darkness of God, Divine Harmony, Hailstorm of God, Illumination of God, Inferno of God, Infinite Power, Lightning of God, Tornado of God, and Supernova. starts the fight accompanied by Godslayer Flynn ^note His skills are Holy Stigmata, Godslayer Slash, Star Tarantella, Myriad Arrows, and Megidoloan. and True Goddess Asahi^note Her skills are Luster Candy, Unending Curse, Lamentation, Samarecarm, Mediarama, Tetrakarn and Makarakarn . After Flynn and Asahi are slain, Creator Nanashi will summon his demons: Lucifer^note Uses Evil Shine, Glacial Blast, Hades Blast, Glacial Blast and Mamudoon., Merkabah ^note Uses Chariot, Deadly Wind, Riot Gun, Thunder Reign and Mahamaon. and Krishna ^note Uses Combat Tara, Deadly Wind, Dream Raga, Salvation, Venomous Raga, and Ziodyne.. Once they're defeated, Creator Nanashi will resurrect Flynn and Krishna to fuse them into Vishnu-Flynn ^note Uses Antichthon, Dark Nandaka, Dekaja, Dekunda, Godslayer Slash, Light Nandaka, Salvation, Shine More. and resurrect Lucifer and Merkabah to fuse them into Satan ^note Uses Akasha Arts, Fear Darkness, Luster Candy, Megiddo Ark, Raging Blizzard, Raging Tempest, Dazzle Ray, Trisagion, and Thunder Reign. . Once they're down, the fight shifts to the final phase where Creator Nanashi fights alone.

Mastema is responsible for turning people into salt

Humans and demons alike being turned to salt raises a lot of questions, but considering the fact that the Qadištu kill their victims and harvest their magatsuhi, as well as the fact that the act of turning to salt is taken from Lot's wife disobeying God's command no to look back on the city of Sodom, it seems that Mastema would be the most likely candidate for these events. The promotional material states he has a conneciton to the "mysterious phenomenon happening in Tokyo" and it's within his character to take drastic actions in the name of Law.

Post-Release WMG's (Vengeance)