Essence ofEpithets

Upon drinking this bright green …liquid (it’s really more of a jelly that sorta flows like water) you will gain the following:

• Upon drinking this bright green …liquid (it's really more of a jelly that at the same time flows like water) you will gain the following:

• You are now able to speak any language in the world, know every word that has been created, and know every meaning of any and all those words. You also have a singular language that any being can understand. This language is best described as a fantasy esperanto.

• If you wish, you can give the ability to speak this singular language to one or more people or spread it to everyone on the planet and can revoke it at any time.

• You have access to the magic known as "Epithets." Epithets are special powers that are based on a singular word. This can be any widely understood word in the world. From verbs, swear words, to animal names (proper names are a no go though).

• At any time, you will be able to equip a single Epithet or word into your soul. This can be Dumb, Soup, Barrier etc.

• While you will only be able to use one Epithet at a time, you can instantly switch to another Epithet at will.

• In time and training, you will be able to equip more than one Epithet.

• What you can do with an Epithet is entirely dependent on your understanding and creativity of the word. Equipping the Epithet "Barrier" would allow you to create, well, barriers. At base, you would be able to create strong force fields. But with creativity, you could instead make barriers, like walls, out of the surrounding materials, or even mental barriers, protecting your mind from intruders.

• If the word has multiple concepts attached to it, you will be able to tap into as many concepts or associations that the word is connected to. For example, the Epithet 'Dumb'. At base, you could 'dumb' down the sound around you, creating a field of muted sound. But you will be able to dumb down ANYTHING. Dumbing down 'pain' or the damage of an attack, reducing its strength, turning a powerful punch into nothing but a weak poke. Dumb down someone's intelligence, turning them into a drooling idiot or reducing the effect of any magic or power, 'dumbing down a curse or spell into nothing.

• Any derivation of the word such as Burn, Burning or Burned all fall under the same Epithet.

• You can get even more mileage out of a word using puns or wordplay. Take Soup for example. At base level you could create soup of any taste and steam (soup is often hot and steaming of course), but do you know what word you can use to refer to something that was enhanced in appeal, power or performance? Souped-up. With that, a person with Soup could Souped-up their attacks, movement, looks or objects.

• If a word gains a new meaning in time, then you will be able to use that association with the appropriate Epithet.

• This includes new words that will be included as more people begin to use it.

• You can also perform the technique known as 'imbued' or 'transcribing', a technique of imbuing the effect of your Epithets into objects, either temporarily or permanently. This can range from temporarily imbuing the age altering aspect of 'Sundial' into a bullet, allowing it to age anything it hits to dust, to permanently imbuing the power stealing aspect of 'Copycat' into an amulet.

• Remember when I said you can give someone the ability to speak that singular language? Well, you may also 'Transcribe' Epithets into their soul if you desire to share the power.

• Note that only one Epithet may exist in one person (other than the one you have, of course) at a time. If someone were to have the Epithet Soup, only they may have it until you revoke it from them.

• That said, there's no limit to how many times you can empower people with an Epithet i.e. granting someone Psi powers via Psychic Epithet, teaching magic via Magic Epithet, genetically altering them via a Gene or Mutate Epithet etc.

• Apart from Epithets, your body can run under roleplaying/anime logic. After every battle you win, you will be instantly restored to complete health. If you train your body and mind hard enough, you will be able to accomplish superhuman feats even without using Epithets. Such as being able to bend steel with your bare hands or repair or build a building within 2 hours. And any attack while still painful, will not show any physical damages or wounds apart from your clothing getting messed up.