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Contents What's new in Persona? Learn About Persona Persona Help www.marinersoftware.com Solving Problems Persona Help Persona Help Contents Discover what you can do Create Mode Use Persona Help to discover what you can do using Persona. Interact Mode To quickly find answers to specific questions, type a word or phrase in the search box above and press Return. Introduction To choose what you want to search, click the magnifying glass and choose an item from the Learn Mode pop-up menu, then type your search phrase in the box and press Return. Misc To explore what you can do with Persona, click an item on the left. Shortcuts Solving problems Overview Persona Help Overview The brainchild of Mariner Software's resident staff, and squarely aimed at the character development space, Persona aids you in crafting archetypal themed characters and plots by using time-honored psychological principles to describe the motivations and interactions between different characterizations of people. Persona is based on an ideology that by categorizing characters into archetypes we can better know their background which in turn shows us their motivations and then predict their behavior. Instead of changing characters as you write, you purposefully develop characters using psychological principles of Plato, Jung and others.. Whether your story's hero is a brainiac talking fish or your villainess is an outcast orphanage owner, Persona helps you explore how each character's unique psychology and background influences their dealings and dialogue. The character arc within a story is generally seen as a fulfillment of what a character needs to make them whole privately, personally, and professionally. Persona delves into your character's private and personal goals by defining what events in their life might have made them the way they are which in turn helps predict their behavior in your story. Good for ensemble casts, episodic material, feature length film, stage, or radio, Persona deals with the characters not the format in which the story is conveyed. With Mariner Persona you can: Explore relationships and interactions between each of your characters Categorize characters into one of 32 archetypes and 64 styles Create Smart Groups of characters based on attributes like tags, type sex, or any word or phrase from your notes Construct ad hoc groups of characters without a defined relationship to explore their interactions See the corresponding archetypes for Heroes and Heroines and what they become if they corrupt into a villain or villainess Shape the details of a cha…