Erebus is capable of mass feats of strength, and can call on all the elements in magic while having some resistance towards those same magic with only physical skills able to damage it completely. When they defeated Erebus it dissolves, however it will reform unless that extremely small malice in all of humanity disappears forever.Įrebus makes a cameo in Persona 4: Arena being defeated by Elizabeth, she states that by the end of the year it will reform, confirming that it will never go away unless humanity stops wishing for destruction.Īs the Grand Manifestation of Humanity, Erebus is a powerful primordial being of divine status that only powerful beings like Elizabeth had a chance to destroy it albeit briefly.

Thus all the malice from their thoughts helped form Erebus. Yukari explains that when someone's life loses it's meaning, the thought of death becomes comforting, and Aegis confirms this by saying that during a time she too wished to learn death. The truth was the seal was place to keep Nyx from being touched by Erebus, the manifestation of the collective human desire for death. They learn that he had used his own life force as a seal to seal Nyx away from humanity so she couldn't bring about The Fall, however Metis explains that sealing away Nyx is not necessary for she is neither hostile nor malevolent. One Aegis won the Keys from the rest of S.E.E.S, they wished to see the miracle the Protagonist preformed that defeated Nyx and allowed humanity to keep on living.

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