Sorry for the delay! With regard to your questions:
1) Lenore shrugs, admitting that she doesn't know how many people have been tapped to fight Shadows but that there have been many over the years. She says that the Shadow World is as vast as the human world and older than recorded history. It's unusual for rifts to appear so consistently and so frequently in one area as they are here, though. The situation in Haling Cove is unusual.
She adds that Velvet Room denizens becoming as involved as they are here is unusual too and that, in the past, she has mostly only been concerned with helping wildcards fulfill their potential. She only became as involved as she did because of Haling Cove's precarious situation and Mr. Gladstone's immense potential.
2) People that aren't Persona-users ending up in the Shadow World is far from unheard of, according to Lenore. She says that a small number of disappearances each year are likely related to a rift opening and some unfortunate human ending up on the other side. She tells them that it's akin to other natural phenomenons and likely can't be helped. They should focus on protecting the people here.
3 + 4) According to Lenore, Persona-users and their Personas becoming trapped in the Shadow World after death seems to be unique to this part of the Shadow World. She's never heard of anything like that before. She advises that, if any of them are killed, they should stay to see what happens to the Persona. If it becomes a Shadow immediately, fighting it and destroying it may prevent anything more from happening.
All of this is delivered with Lenore's typical matter-of-fact coldness.
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1) Lenore shrugs, admitting that she doesn't know how many people have been tapped to fight Shadows but that there have been many over the years. She says that the Shadow World is as vast as the human world and older than recorded history. It's unusual for rifts to appear so consistently and so frequently in one area as they are here, though. The situation in Haling Cove is unusual.
She adds that Velvet Room denizens becoming as involved as they are here is unusual too and that, in the past, she has mostly only been concerned with helping wildcards fulfill their potential. She only became as involved as she did because of Haling Cove's precarious situation and Mr. Gladstone's immense potential.
2) People that aren't Persona-users ending up in the Shadow World is far from unheard of, according to Lenore. She says that a small number of disappearances each year are likely related to a rift opening and some unfortunate human ending up on the other side. She tells them that it's akin to other natural phenomenons and likely can't be helped. They should focus on protecting the people here.
3 + 4) According to Lenore, Persona-users and their Personas becoming trapped in the Shadow World after death seems to be unique to this part of the Shadow World. She's never heard of anything like that before. She advises that, if any of them are killed, they should stay to see what happens to the Persona. If it becomes a Shadow immediately, fighting it and destroying it may prevent anything more from happening.
All of this is delivered with Lenore's typical matter-of-fact coldness.