Robo Owl sighs and hops back into his ship. He’s returning home after exploring another empty universe with nothing but barren planets. It’s always disappointing to come across a dead universe, but it's to be expected in an infinite multiverse. He turns a dial and prepares for the inevitable tearing sensation that comes with traveling to another universe. As the ship begins to tear the seams of reality to traverse the void between time and space Robo Owl detects a massive magic-based anomaly in a nearby universe. He quickly changes his destination and the ship moves through the rift. Everything outside the ship is a blur of color as the shades of each universe mix together to form a beautiful painting of the multiverse. This portion of the multiverse is mostly uncharted due to how empty it is. Most creatures in these universes died out long ago and yet Robo just found a place where magic thrives, and where there’s magic there are living things. Another rift opens high above a small city and the ship comes out. It promptly moves up into low orbit to avoid being seen while Robo does a scan of the city. It’s about 6 AM and people are traveling to work and school. Strangely the magic anomaly is less concentrated then it would seem, only one in every five people seem to have any effect in the magical composition of this strange universe. The ship cloaks itself and gently lands on the outskirts of the city. Robo hops out of the ship and goes towards a building marked as a library. Once inside he immediately goes into the history section and finds a book labeled “The History and Existence of Epithets.” He begins to read. “Epithets have existed for thousands of years and have affected our history in millions of ways. Without Epithets the Songstress would have never existed and we would have never had the Inscribed Wars. Our greatest heroes would never have existed but the worst villains would never have their powers.” Robo read quietly “But what even is an Epithet? Is it a fundamental part of the universe? Spiritual magic? No one knows. In this book, we will explore the past as it was affected by people with Epithets.” Robo reads for several hours and learns a little bit about the nature of Epithets. He discovers that an Epithet is a word that somehow gives people magic abilities and that no two people can get the same Epithet. Seems like everyone in this world knows what an Epithet is and as such no one bothered explaining it in the books Robo found. He leaves the library and is almost run into by someone moving slightly under 20 miles per hour, she drops a keycard with the name Dahlia Dislay written on it and her picture on the front. She runs off without the keycard and disappears into the city... [spoiler]All credit to the Epithet system goes to this guy and his show https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yio2JNgQKBM&t=152s Watch it! It’s really good! [/spoiler]