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This article is about the Shadow. For the Arcana, see Fortune Arcana.

Arcana Fortune is a full moon boss in Persona 3 and is fought alongside Arcana Strength during the seventh Full Moon Operation on October 4.

Appearance[]


Details[]

The creature resembles a sphinx, one of the creatures depicted on the Rider-Waite Wheel of Fortune card. It also resembles the lion often seen in depictions of the Strength Arcana (echoing its role as Arcana Strength's partner in battle). It bears the green and red mask of a Fortune shadow, and its Wheel of Fortune summons a roulette similar to the cards' classic depiction of Fortune.

As with all Full Moon Operation boss encounters, it represents the inverse of its respective tarot card. In the usual position, the Wheel of Fortune represents patience in order to achieve greater gains and changes, while the reversed card represents quick resolutions by any means necessary. The shadow uses a roulette in order to hamper the party, yet it might turn against it, this is due to its neutral nature, entering in conflict against the shadow's lack of patience driving it to even summon rigged roulettes when in disadvantage.

In Reload, the roulette will affect all on-screen targets rather than only a single party. This represents how fate is equal and will befall and dictate everyone regardless of who they are. The Shadow will also attempt to cheat by summoning a rigged roulette when on a severe disadvantage, only for the roulette to automatically fail and force it to squander a turn. This represents how all attempts to manipulate and defy fate will fail, for it is an inevitable. This can also be interpreted as symbolism for story events that would soon play out.

Profile[]

Persona 3[]

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Persona 3 FES The Journey Full Moon Boss Fortune and Strength Hard

The boss fight.

When the battle begins, Arcana Strength casts a shield on Fortune, protecting it until Strength is defeated. Throughout the battle, Arcana Fortune can create a large roulette wheel. The wheel can cause damage, provide stat buffs or debuffs, inflict status problems or heal either the protagonist's team or the two Arcana depending on which panel the pointer lands on (red benefits the enemy and blue benefits the party). The easiest way to get a result that benefits the team would be to stop the roulette when the result pointer is directly opposite of the desired panel. Additionally, one result on Fortune's wheel inflicts Fear on itself or Strength (if the latter is not defeated yet), leaving them vulnerable to Ghastly Wail.

Once Arcana Strength falls, Arcana Fortune becomes vulnerable and can be attacked and scanned. At this time, it attacks more proactively, using multi-hit Pierce-type attacks and high-level Wind spells. It still uses Wheel of Fortune, but it begins skewing the odds in its favor as its health drops, having less blue panels and larger red panels to increase the odds of the party hitting a negative effect. It also uses damage-related roulettes more frequently, but if a status ailment wheel comes up, it is vulnerable to the same Fear-Ghastly Wail combo that can be used against Strength.

Persona 3 Reload[]

The player now no longer has control over the wheel. Instead, the effects are decided by a semi-scripted pattern. There is only one wheel (out of the rigged wheel) with buff, debuff and damage panels, removing the opportunity to instantly kill the bosses through fear. The effects of the roulette will also apply on all targets. Fortune will always use its first roulette to apply Matarukaja's effect on all on-screen targets, and it will spend its second roulette to deal 300 fixed damage to all on-screen targets. The latter is especially dangerous as it can and will cause multiple deaths or severe causalities, and if the protagonist has 300 HP or below, it will always guarantee a Game Over. Out of that, it will attack using Garudyne or Magarudyne.

When near dying, it will summon a rigged roulette. The roulette consists of a large blue panel containing a pair of wings (presumably representing a recovery effect) and a smaller, red panel with a grim reaper icon. The rigged roulette will always land on the grim reaper icon that does nothing.

Persona 3: The Movie[]

Arcana Fortune and Arcana Strength were fought at the Iwatodai Station when the party is on their way to finding Ken and Shinjiro (the former was confronting and trying to kill the latter somewhere else), forcing them to stop the search and kill the Shadows first. Unlike in the original game, Fortune seemingly decides where the Wheel lands on by itself, making it an extremely formidable foe. After a difficult fight, the two Shadows were defeated and the party arrives in time to witness Shinjiro's death.

Stats[]

Arcana Level HP SP
Strength 29
Magic 29
Endurance 29
Agility 29
Luck 29
Fortune 46 3,000
?
Slash Strike Pierce Fire Ice Elec Wind Light Dark Almi
- - - - - - - Null Null -
List of Skills
Skill Effect
Strike Attack Normal attack using the Strike attribute.
Torrent Shot Deals light Pierce damage to one foe. (2-4 hits)
Arrow Rain Deals medium Pierce damage to all foes. (2 hits)
Garudyne Deals heavy Wind damage to one foe.
Magarudyne Deals heavy Wind damage to all foes.
Wheel of Fortune Creates a roulette that either damages, heals, buffs, debuffs,
or inflicts status ailments to either all allies or all foes.

Arcana Level HP SP
Strength --
Magic --
Endurance --
Agility --
Luck --
Fortune 95 7,000
?
Slash Strike Pierce Fire Ice Elec Wind Light Dark Almi
- - - - - - - Null Null -
List of Skills
Skill Effect
Strike Attack Normal attack using the Strike attribute.
Akasha Arts Deals heavy Strike damage 1x to 2x to all foes.
Magarudyne Deals heavy Wind damage to all foes.
Wheel of Fortune Creates a roulette that either damages, heals, buffs, debuffs,
or inflicts status ailments to either all allies or all foes.

Reload[]

  • As in the original game, Fortune is untargetable until Strength is defeated. This does not stop Strength from being the target of an All-Out Attack.
  • Fortune will always spend its first turn buffing the attack of all available targets with Wheel of Fortune. It will follow by casting Garudyne on its second turn, then deal 300 fixed damage with another Wheel on the third.
  • The rigged wheel will appear if Fortune's HP is very low (approximately below 25%).


Arcana Level HP SP
Strength 5
Magic 20
Endurance 10
Agility 15
Luck 50
Fortune 46 3,000
?
Slash Strike Pierce Fire Ice Elec Wind Light Dark Almi
- Weak - Drain Drain Weak Drain Drain - -
Down Dizzy Freeze Shock Poison Charm Distress Confuse Fear Rage
- Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null
List of Skills
Skill Effect
Garudyne Deals heavy Wind damage to 1 foe.
Magarudyne Deals heavy Wind damage to all foes.
Wheel of Fortune Creates a roulette that either damages, heals, buffs or debuffs all on-screen targets.
Wheel of Fortune Creates a rigged roulette that does nothing.
Null Freeze Protects completely from being afflicted with Freeze.
Null Shock Protects completely from being afflicted with Shock.
Null Dizzy Protects completely from being afflicted with Dizzy.


Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In Reload, the rigged wheel is scripted to always land on the smaller red panel, which has a grim reaper icon. This foreshadows that Shinjiro will die right after the battle.
  • The decision to have the Wheel of Fortune decide its effect automatically rather than manually in Reload is likely based on Fortune's portrayal in The Movie, where SEES has no control over the wheel unlike in the original game.


P3 Bosses
Guardians Venus Eagle (3) - Dancing Hand (3) - Rampage Drive - Crying Table (3) - Change Relic - Golden Beetle (3) - Intrepid Knight - Furious Gigas (3) - Fanatic Tower - Magical Magus (3) - Natural Dancer - Arcane Turret (3) - Sleeping Table - Hell Knight (3) - Mythical Gigas - Judgement Sword (3) - Stasis Giant (3) - Phantom King - Royal Dancer (3) - Reckoning Dice - Noble Seeker (3) - Carnal Snake (3) - World Balance - Fierce Cyclops (3) - Jotun of Grief
Full Moon Operation bosses Arcana Priestess - Arcana Emperor and Arcana Empress - Arcana Hierophant - Arcana Lovers - Arcana Chariot and Arcana Justice - Arcana Hermit - Arcana Fortune and Arcana Strength - Arcana Hanged Man - Death
Other Takaya Sakaki and Hypnos - Jin Shirato and Moros - Chidori Yoshino and Medea - Reaper - Elizabeth
P3P Exclusive Theodore - Margaret
P3 FES Bosses
Guardians Immortal Gigas + Visceral Maya (3) - Brilliant Cyclops - Death Castle + El Dorado Beast (2) - Harem Dancer + Merciless Maya (2) - Judgement Sword + Ice Raven + Brave Wheel - Primitive Idol + Shouting Tiara + Wrathful Book - Wondrous Magus + Crying Table + Cowardly Maya - Neo Minotaur - Spastic Turret + Slaughter Drive (2) - Conceited Maya - Rebellious Cyclops + Acheron Seeker (2) - Tenjin Musha + Kaiden Musha + Onnen Musha
Other Metis and Psyche - ??? - Akihiko Sanada and Caesar + Ken Amada and Kala-Nemi - Junpei Iori and Trismegistus + Koromaru and Cerberus - Yukari Takeba and Isis + Mitsuru Kirijo and Artemisia - Erebus
P3 Reload Bosses
Monad Shadow of the Void
Characters
Playable Male protagonist - Female protagonist - Yukari Takeba - Junpei Iori - Akihiko Sanada - Mitsuru Kirijo - Fuuka Yamagishi - Aigis - Koromaru - Ken Amada - Shinjiro Aragaki - Metis
Social Link Kenji Tomochika - Hidetoshi Odagiri - Bunkichi and Mitsuko - Kazushi Miyamoto - Chihiro Fushimi - Isako Toriumi - Keisuke Hiraga - Yuko Nishiwaki - Maiko Oohashi - Pharos - Bebe - President Tanaka - Mutatsu - Mamoru Hayase - Nozomi Suemitsu - Akinari Kamiki - Rio Iwasaki - Saori Hasegawa - Ryoji Mochizuki
Major Igor - Elizabeth - Theodore - Shuji Ikutsuki - Officer Kurosawa - Takaya Sakaki - Jin Shirato - Chidori Yoshino - Takeharu Kirijo - Kouetsu Kirijo - Eiichiro Takeba - Natsuki Moriyama - Nyx - Erebus - Margaret
Minor Kiyoshi Sakuma - Mr. Edogawa - Mr. Ekoda - Ms. Miyahara - Ms. Ounishi - Mrs. Terauchi - Kikuno Saikawa - Yuu Kimijima - Souta Aizawa - Kyouka Sayama
Cameo Yukiko Amagi - Noriko Kashiwagi - Man Drinking Alone
Location
Port Island Gekkoukan High School - Paulownia Mall - Iwatodai Station - Port Island Station - Naganaki Shrine - Dorm - Moonlight Bridge - Velvet Room
Tartarus Blocks: Thebel - Arqa - Yabbashah - Tziah - Harabah - Adamah - Monad Depths
Abyss of Time Malebolge - Cocytus - Caina - Antenora - Ptolomea - Judecca - Empyrean
Other Kyoto - Great Seal
Music
Albums Original Soundtrack (JP / US / FES / Portable) - Bonus CD - Burn My Dread -Reincarnation- - Spring of Birth OST - Midsummer Knight's Dream OST - Falling Down OST - Winter Of Rebirth OST - Persona 20th Anniversary All Time Best Album
Songs "Burn My Dread" - "Aria of the Soul" - "Want To Be Close" - "When the Moon Reaches for the Stars" - "Iwatodai Dorm" - "Mass Destruction" - "Color Your Night" - "Deep Breath Deep Breath" - "The Meaning of Armbands" - "Deep Mentality" - "It's Going Down Now" - "Changing Seasons" - "Current Net Price Tanaka" - "Battle Hymn of the Soul" - "Kimi no Kioku" - "P3 FES" - "Mass Destruction -P3fes version-" - "Heartful Cry" - "Brand New Days" - "Soul Phrase" - "A Way of Life" - "Time" - "Wiping All Out" - "More Than One Heart" - "Fate is In Our Hands" - "One Single Word" - "One Hand, One Heartbeat" - "One Determination" - "Sound of the Beast" - "Storm for a Butterfly" - "Light in Starless Sky" - "My Testimony" - "Self Redemption"
Archives
Terminology Persona (Initial / Prime / Ultimate) - Persona user - Shadow - Wild Card - Evoker - Attack Properties - Tactics - All-out Attack - Shuffle Time - Dark Hour - Moon Phase System - Full Moon Operations - SEES - Kirijo Group - Nanjo Group - Strega - Artificial Persona user - Suppressants - Apathy Syndrome - The Fall - Death - Who's Who - Phoenix Ranger Featherman R - Plume of Dusk
P3RE: Shift - Theurgy - Combat Characteristics
Lists Arcana - Personas (P3 - FES - P - R) - Shadows - Bosses (P3 - FES) - Skills - Items (Heart Items / Vending Machines) - Status Effects - Elizabeth's Requests - Activities - Calendar - Trophies (Portable / Reload) - Steam Profile Items - Patches and Updates
School Life Daily Life - Seasons - Social Link - Social Stats - Yen - Class - Studying - Movie Theater - Bed - Part-time Jobs - Shrine - Tanaka's Amazing Commodities - Crane Machine - Chagall Café - School Club - Linked Episode - Computer - Refrigerator - Gardening / Books / DVDs / Cooking - Studying - Fortune Telling
Other Media
Games FES - Portable - Reload - Dancing in Moonlight
Productions The Movie - The Movie: Escape from the Dark Hour - the Weird Masquerade: -Ao no Kakusei- / -Gunjou no Meikyuu- / -Souen no Kesshou- / -Ai no Seiyaku- / -Hekikuu no Kanata e- - Persona Stalker Club - 「PERSORA AWARDS」 - PERSORA AWARDS 2 - PERSORA AWARDS 3 - Persora -The Golden Best-
Drama CDs A Certain Day of Summer - Daylight / Moonlight - Character Drama CD Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 / Vol. 3 / Vol. 4 / Vol. 5 - New Moon / Full Moon - Portable Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
Publications Manga - Shadow Cry - Memento Mori - Owari no Kakera - Alternative Heart - Velvet Blue - Persona Magazine - Dear Girls Comic Anthology - Dengeki Comic Anthology - Tartarus Theater - Persona VS
Mobile Games The Night Before - Persona Ain Soph - Social - Escape - Illust Puzzle - Broken Shadow - Aegis: The First Mission - Qix - Chaining Soul - Em
Events Music Live 2008 - Music Live 2009 - Music Tour 2010 - Music Live 2012 - Music Fes 2013 - Music Box 2014 - Super Live 2015 - Livehouse Tour 2015 - Super Live 2017 - Super Live 2019- 25th Anniversary Symphonic Concert
20th Anniversary Festival - 25th Anniversary - 25th FES
Miscellaneous Merchandise
Major Arcana
0. Fool Arcana - I. Magician Arcana - 1(E). Councillor Arcana - II. Priestess Arcana - III. Empress Arcana - IV. Emperor Arcana - V. Hierophant Arcana - V(T). Apostle Arcana- VI. Lovers Arcana - VII. Chariot Arcana - VIII. Strength Arcana/Justice Arcana - IX. Hermit Arcana - X. Fortune Arcana - XI. Justice Arcana/Strength Arcana - XI(T). Hunger Arcana - XII. Hanged Man Arcana - XIII. Death Arcana - XIV. Temperance Arcana - XV. Devil Arcana - XVI. Tower Arcana - XVII. Star Arcana - XVIII. Moon Arcana - XIX. Sun Arcana - XX. Judgement Arcana - XX(T). Aeon Arcana - XXI. World Arcana - XXI(T). Universe Arcana - (VS) Faith Arcana - (VS) Hope Arcana
Minor Arcana
Suit of Coins - Suit of Cups - Suit of Swords - Suit of Wands
Shadow Arcana
I. Arcana Magician - II. Arcana Priestess - III. Arcana Empress - IV. Arcana Emperor - V. Arcana Hierophant - VI. Arcana Lovers - VII. Arcana Chariot - VIII. Arcana Justice - IX. Arcana Hermit - X. Arcana Fortune - XI. Arcana Strength - XII. Arcana Hanged Man - XIII. Death
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