I know that off of the top of my head Persona 2 takes place in 1999 and Persona 3 has "Trish's Who's Who" segments which actually touch on where the characters from the first three games are. So they come from the same world and canon, but judging by your answer you'd rather they arrive by train plucked from a certain canon point (time traveling, as it were; otherwise if they arrived to Inaba by "natural" means most of the cast would be in their late twenties and mid thirties). Obviously from your answer they wouldn't be on the same ground as the game's NPCs, which is the question I was gearing toward.
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I know that off of the top of my head Persona 2 takes place in 1999 and Persona 3 has "Trish's Who's Who" segments which actually touch on where the characters from the first three games are. So they come from the same world and canon, but judging by your answer you'd rather they arrive by train plucked from a certain canon point (time traveling, as it were; otherwise if they arrived to Inaba by "natural" means most of the cast would be in their late twenties and mid thirties). Obviously from your answer they wouldn't be on the same ground as the game's NPCs, which is the question I was gearing toward.