Epithet
Epithet noun - A descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual.
Usage example: King Richard I of England was given the very laudatory epithet “the Lion-Hearted”
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Title
Title noun - A word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known.
Usage example: about the only thing the book and the movie have in common are their titles
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Synonyms for Title
Epithet is a synonym for title in name topic. You can use "Epithet" instead a noun "Title", if it concerns topics such as specific, subject, form of address. popular alternative
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- Giantish last names (at least) are clearly mostly of the Earn Your Title or epithet variety rather than inherited, as Honninscrave and Seadreamer are actually brothers.
Source: Luke Nounverber - Skyrim has some in its opening theme"Alduin, bane of kings, ancient shadow unbound." Every dragon's name is a three word epithet; "Alduin" means "destroy-consume-lord" (he was made by Akatosh to destroy the world at the end of time, hence his other major title, the World-Eater).
Source: Luke Nounverber -
Title Drop: "Brimstone Angel" was the epithet of the infamous tiefling warlock Bryseis Kakistos.
Source: Literature / Brimstone Angels
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