Much like its source material, Emerald has plenty of horrors both in plain sight and in the background.
WARNING: All spoilers are unmarked.
- The Lands. The 'dungeons' of this story take the form of their maker's perfect world. Except, if you look past the surface, things stop being so 'flawless'. And if their maker stays in there for too long...their body dies and washes up on shore, with their mind trapped forever in their Land.
- The mere fact that a new version of the Masked Circle - Persona 2's villains - exists is this. Everything from the events of that game was supposed to be erased, and yet this new version hints that somehow, something remained...or the Crawling Chaos has begun interacting with humanity again.
- This line that Lady Scorpio says, if you're knowledgeable of Persona 2.Lady Scorpio: As for your question, it was I who saw the visions of the coming future. I saw the golden shrines buried deep beneath the sea of souls, and I understood what had been hidden away from humanity's collective mind for so long. A city, and two gods imprisoned within.
- How Benihime's Persona, Rusalka, defeated Koschei. Rusalka not only severs the Shadow's head off, but she also devours his eyes and tongue. Urgh.
- The Great Father. When the team is about to confront Shujiki's Shadow, Reika punches it off the tower...but something Goes Horribly Wrong. Shujiki begins screaming in pain, and then something ascends from the side of the tower. A serpentine black appendage with the face of Shujiki's Shadow on it, his face frozen into an expression of pure terror. Then the face is cast away, to reveal a featureless mask beneath...and it just gets worse from there. Eventually, it takes the form of a massive golden sculpture of a brain covered in a pitch black...something, held up by the tendrils from before. And the team is forced to their knees both by a wave of pressure and the thing simply speaking. And the name Great Father. Sound familiar? The Crawling Chaos has taken the field...
