Epithet

“	Epithets! Rare powers! Some people got 'em! Some people don't!	”
—Mera Salamin, "Quiet in the Museum!"

Epithets are special powers emitted from a single word tethered to a person's soul. People possessing epithets are referred to as "inscribed", while those without them are called "Mundies". About one in every five people has an epithet, although epithets grow more common every year.

Inscribed can use their epithet for a variety of different things, depending on how they perceive their word and how high their creativity is. For example, Giovanni's epithet (Soup) not only makes a delicious dish, but can also make a "Demon Energy Aura" (steam is formed and rises off of Giovanni's body, dispelling anything in the air around him; introduced in Episode 2) among other things.

If a person has intense mastery over their epithet, then they can imbue an object with their power (ex: The Arsene Amulet). This is called “transcribing” or “embuing”.

List of Epithets

Molly Blyndeff: Dumb Can simplify and mute objects, sometimes even able to dumb down objects out of existence.

Giovanni Potage: Soup Makes tasty soup that has a range of possible abilities.

Mera Salamin: Fragile Can increase an object's frailty until it shatters. Unfortunately, this also affects the user. Meaning that if the user were to accidentally bump into someone, their bones would easily break.

Indus Tarbella: Barrier Creates barriers of varying sizes and shapes.

Dr. Sylvester Ashling: Drowsy Has a collection of sleep-based abilities, such as lulling enemies to sleep and bringing nightmares to life.

Percival King: Parapet Creates small magical buildings with a variety of special effects.

Ramsey Murdoch: Goldbricker Allows the user to transmute objects into solid gold and back. The user can also use this on themselves or others.

Zora Salazar: ??? For now, it's unknown what her Epithet is but it can freeze time to any object & can reverse the age of her opponents.

Arnold Markdown: Coupon Allows the user to use coupons that gives their allies a stats boost.

Bugsy Pugsler: Bellybutton Anything that the user eats can give out a random attack from ice blasts to rubber duckies.

Gorou Shimizaki: Bluster Allows the user to blow very slightly harder than average blowing.

Creator of the Arsene Amulet: Copycat Allows the user to steal other people's epithets.

Trivia

• Whether any given person gets an epithet or not is mostly up to chance.
• It's possible for inscribed to only learn their epithet very late in their life, or not at all.
• The same epithet can occur more than once, but no two people can have the same epithet at the same time.
• All grammatical derivatives of a word are included in a single epithet, even if this greatly alters the meaning of the word.
• Epithets can be verbs, nouns, swears or animals. They cannot be multiple words (unless they mean one specific thing together) or proper names.
• Animals cannot have epithets.
• Homophone epithets can give the user the powers of both words as long as they are spelled and pronounced the same way. If two words are not spelled and/or pronounced the same way, they would be separate epithets.
• Epithets have existed for around 250-300 years and used to be very uncommon. They grow more common every year.
• Epithet-based discrimination is called "Lexism", which mainly inhibits Mundies.