Death Skills

Death (呪殺^?, lit. "curse kill"), also known as Darkness (暗黒, Ankoku)^? (闇, Yami)^?, and known as Curse (呪怨, Juen)^? in Persona 5, is a spell type in the series and the most recurring line of Dark Spells. Death spells usually focus on inflicting instant death on the enemy, though exceptions do exist.

Expel is the Light counterpart to Death.

General Spells

Mudo is the general death elemental spell.

Death skills are always in some way or other automatically blocked by bosses, in order to prevent them from being used to instantly kill the bosses. In games where the only Dark damaging skills are Death skills such as in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and Persona 3, all bosses will have an innate void against Dark.

In Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse, Death skills do regular damage, but will instantly kill enemies during Smirk. If a boss is targeted by a Death skill from a character with Smirk, it will do critical damage instead of instantly killing it.

Name	Japanese/Romaji	Power	Target
Mudo	ムド Mudo	Low odds fatal	1 enemy
Mamudo	マハムド Mahamudo	Low odds fatal	All enemies
Mudoon	ムドオン Mudo'on	High odds fatal	1 enemy
Mamudoon	マハムドオン Mahamudo'on	High odds fatal	All enemies

Specific spells

Name	Power	Target
Die For Me! 死んでくれる?	Very high odds of Fatal	All enemies
Paral Eyes	Paralyzes target	1 enemy
Petra Eyes / Stone Gaze	Petrifies target	1 enemy
Death Road / Hell's Eye	Kills target	1 enemy
Bael's Curse	Inflicts Fly ailment	1 enemy
Blood Thief / Blood Suck	Inflicts Bat ailment	1 enemy

Game Specific

Shin Megami Tensei: if... Exclusive

Name	Effect	Target
Wire Breath	Inflicts Bind ailment	Multiple enemies
Sol Cluster	Kills target	1 enemy

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Exclusive

• The status ailment "stone" is affiliated with the Death element.

Name	Power	Target
Evil Gaze	HP reduces to 1	1 enemy
Hell Gaze	High odds fatal	1 enemy
Death Flies	Almighty heavy damage + 100% Death fatal	all enemies

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Exclusive

Name	Power	Target
Darkness	100% Fatal, Mem Aleph Only	Entire Party

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Exclusive

Name	Power	Target
Glimmering Eye	Chance to petrify	Lowest level enemy

Megami Ibunroku Persona and Persona 5 Exclusive

• "Eiha" (エイハ^*)^? is Japanese for "Shadow Wave" (影波, Eiha)^?, in contrast to Kouha (Light Wave).
• All Death skills in Persona 5 are instead classified as "Curse" type. All common Curse skills in Persona 5 do not inflict any ailment.
• In Megami Ibunroku Persona, Maeiha dealt heavy Death damage each turn, in Persona 5 this was changed to light damage each turn, its old role being replaced by Maeigaon.

Skill	Japanese/Romaji	Effect
Eiha	エイハ Eiha	Light Death damage each turn (1 foe)
Baeiha	バイエイハ Baieiha	Medium Death damage each turn (area)
Maeiha	マハエイハ Maeiha	Heavy Death damage each turn (all foes)

Persona 2 series specific

Name	Power	Target
Stagnant Air	Light	All enemies
Curse	Medium	All enemies
Dark Verdict	Heavy + fatal	All enemies
Omega Cluster	Special, fatal	All enemies
Chaos Element	Special	All enemies

Persona 5 specific

• All Death skills in Persona 5 are instead classified as "Curse" type.

Skill	Japanese/Romaji	Effect
Eiha	エイハ Eiha	Light Curse damage each turn (1 foe)
Eiga	エイガ Eiga	Medium Curse damage each turn (1 foe)
Eigaon	エイガオン Eigaon	Heavy Curse damage each turn (1 foe)
Maeiha	マハエイハ Maeiha	Light Curse damage each turn (all foes)
Maeiga	マハエイガ Maeiga	Medium Curse damage each turn (all foes)
Maeigaon	マエイガオン Maeigaon	Heavy Curse damage each turn (all foes)

Digital Devil Saga series specific

Name	Power	Target
Curse	Inflict ailment - cursed	1 enemy
Blood Curse	Inflict ailment - cursed	All enemies
Wicked Curse	Medium + cursed	All enemies
Millennia Curse	Instantly kills or curses all enemies. (3 Death or Mudo Skills)	All enemies
Stone Gaze	Petrifies target	1 enemy
Petrifier	Chance to petrify all enemies. (Combo is Stone Gaze + -nda skill)	All enemies

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Iconology

The glyphs which are employed in the visual effects of the Mudo spells and Magatsu Mandala are Siddhaṃ script. It is commonly seen in "Womb Realm Seed Mandala" (胎蔵界種子曼荼羅).