[Wait who's Michel? She tries to remember someone with that nam---wait it was that weird blue-haired guy right? Those two are friends? They seem so different. And yet, who was she to judge.]

Fought yours...we never had to do that. Nor did we have to deal with Nyarlathotep or Philemon before either. Shadows were entities gathered during the Dark Hour...it was a time between midnight and its first minute when time would stand still for an hour. Everyone transmogrified into coffins apart from persona users and a few others we had to rescue...

...long story short, the Shadows were trying to fuse again together to awaken Nyx and bring about The Fall.