

In _Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2 - Innocent Sin_ when you first go to the
Kuzunoha Detective Agency both Tamaki Uchida and Daisuke Todoroki are
described as _"Devil Summoners"_.

After Yukino Mayuzumi joins the party and you visit the detective agency she
comments that Tamaki is from _Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 1_ as both her and
Tadashi Satomi are graduates from St. Hermelin (though i don't entire remember
them) but i don't remember anyone outside the 10 Persona Users having gained
any abilities during the incident.

So what is Devil Summoning? is this in some way connected to Personas?


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What exactly is Devil Summoning?


Persona is a part of the Megami Tensei series. The main series is Shin Megami
Tensei. Staples of the main series are the demon summoning, demon negotiation,
demon fusion, the Law and Chaos conflict, demon apocalypses, high difficulty,
and many other things.

Tamaki Uchida is from Shin Megami Tensei if..., which is a side story to the
main Shin Megami Tensei games (it's also a main game). It takes place in a
timeline in which the events of SMT 1 are averted, where the demon invasion
was fought back by Devil Summoners ( which exist thanks to Devil Summoner on
PS2), Japan was never nuked, and the instigators of the events in 1 are
arrested/killed (the prologue of SMT 1 still happens though).

In if..., Tamaki's school is sent into the Expanse, or the demon realm, and
she must partner up with a classmate to get out (who she chooses determines
the ending).

Stephen, the creator of the Demon Summoning Program from SMT 1 and 2 (and
4/Apocalypse), sent the program to Tamaki's school. That's how she gains the
ability to summon demons.

Persona takes place in the Devil Summoner/Persona/if.../Catherine timeline
branch. In 208X, during the events of SMT 2, a man named Raidou Kuzunoha the
40th decides that life in Tokyo Millennium sucks so he travels back in time to
the Taisho era of Japan to prevent the nukes from ever launching in 199X
(early nineties).

Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th (Not a real name, just a title) is a Japanese high
school student and next in line to become the new Raidou Kuzunoha, the choices
he makes in Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs King Abaddon (PS2) determine
the condition of the world (Law/Neutral/Chaos). Siding with Law makes what
Raidou Kuzunoha the 40th did futile as it causes the timeline to repeat and
the events of SMT 1 aren't avoided. Siding with Chaos leads into SMT 3:
Nocturne (and maybe 4 and Strange Journey). And finally, Raidou the 14th being
Neutral leads into the Devil Summoner/Persona/if.../Catherine timeline.


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