#bc the original shot i got was from a lower-res recording i made

[muzzleroars]

So I actually managed to find the entire Persona 5 concept art book online! Which is really interesting and I'm gonna look through it all later, but Yaldabaoth! The words on Yaldabaoth's wings are in the concept art, specifically the page including all his weapons where the patterns on his wings are more detailed (also all the pages of the artbook I downloaded are individual images labeled are just numbered so I'm gonna have to manually sort them if I want to find anything quick so some meta smh)

Unfortunately the quality is too low on any image of this page I managed to find online to actually read the words. Maybe there's a more detailed version in the concept art found in the Thieves Den for Royal? Or if someone has a physical print copy of the art book?

(also Yaldabaoth's book has a David's star and what seems to be a graph of the sine function in it which is interesting, a mix of the mathematical and religious)

SO i checked out the thieves den and unfortunately, the yaldabaoth art available there is the one with the less-detailed wings. i then tried to mess with his model in the den to see if i could get the right angle on it, but of course i couldn’t!! i also have texture rips from the game, but they’re actually not high-res enough for me to read (so it might not be legible actually in game??) it seems like the text is all composed of the same words (which throws out my short-lived theory that each node, which would number eight in total counting both wings, had anything to do with the eight deadly sins p5 covers lol), but still it remains elusive!! i even went to check out the anime to see if there were any better angles there, but nothing!! all i managed to see was this:

i will say it looks slightly different from what i can see in game, but i imagine it’s the same words. all i know at this point is that it will continue to make me lose my mind not knowing exactly what it says!!

BUT i so agree that the book is interesting in the concept art here!! the pages of the book are much simpler in game (as i can see those on the texture rips), but the combination of religious symbols and mathematical ones very much plays into my idea of him as a computer god. it’s also so indicative of him as the architect, that he may work and derive his power by the divine and esoteric meaning of numbers - everything in his universe can be conceived of mathematically, the religious defined by specific parameters and able to be worked out through perfect, mysterious equations too demanding for human minds. AT LEAST it’s a fav headcanon for me so i like seeing it here dkfghdfg

#he's the only gay that can do math #sorry i disappeared for a shower too lol #but this game seems hellbent on not giving it up!! #really the best image of it may be the animated cutscene #i should pull it up on the thieves den #bc the original shot i got was from a lower-res recording i made #and maybe seeing it on my tv will do it? #I WILL INVESTIGATE bc i forgot to do that when i checked the den lol #be back...soon.... #p5 #yaldabaoth #sorry i'm clogging his tag u_u #cake answers #long post #in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene