Death Skills

Kumbhanda casting Mudoon in Shin Megami Tensei V

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

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!	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 specific

• "Eiha" (エイハ^*)^? is Japanese for "Shadow Wave" (影波, Eiha)^?, in contrast to Kouha (Light Wave).
• 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	Target
Eiha	エイハ Eiha	Light Death damage each turn	1 enemy
Baeiha	バイエイハ Baieiha	Medium Death damage each turn	Area
Maeiha	マハエイハ Mahaeiha	Heavy Death damage each turn	All enemies

Persona 2 series Exclusive

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 Exclusive

• All Death skills in Persona 5 are instead classified as Curse type. All common Curse skills in Persona 5 do not inflict any ailment.

Skill	Japanese/Romaji	Effect	Target
Eiha	エイハ Eiha	Light Curse damage each turn	1 Enemy
Eiga	エイガ Eiga	Medium Curse damage each turn	1 Enemy
Eigaon	エイガオン Eigaon	Heavy Curse damage each turn	1 Enemy
Maeiha	マハエイハ Mahaeiha	Light Curse damage each turn	All enemies
Maeiga	マハエイガ Mahaeiga	Medium Curse damage each turn	All enemies
Maeigaon	マハエイガオン Mahaeigaon	Heavy Curse damage each turn	All enemies

Digital Devil Saga series Exclusive

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).