System Title

The System awards System Titles for extraordinary or unusual achievements. No one knows exactly how the System decides when to award a Title, but it is known that it is absolutely impossible to obtain one purposefully. Trying to replicate the feat of someone else who was awarded a title for that feat will not work.

System Titles usually grant one or more abilities or buffs. The Title, and the rewards it grants, are always related to whatever feat was responsible for it being awarded in the first place. The Title Adamant is awarded for trying so hard to save someone who is dying that the being trying to save them almost dies from injuries, Mana Shock, or exhaustion themselves: it grants, among other things, increased regeneration when the Title holder is very low on HP, MP, or SP.

Toward the end of Mind Games it is revealed that System Titles are very hard to get and therefore quite rare. Any sapient being that has one is usually accorded deference by beings who do not. As James observes, it is "almost like being a minor noble." Therefore most beings who have Titles set their Status Screen to enable others to see the Titles when they are Examined, though this is optional. It is customary to refer to a being holding a Title by some combination of that Title and their name. For instance, James Erickson, who has the (disclosed) title "Adamant," is referred to as "Adamant" or "Adamant Erickson" by beings from long-standing System worlds.

The System tells James that no one who is not at least fifty levels higher than him can see his "hidden" titles no matter what, implying that there is a way to see a sapient being's titles even if they do not have the display enabled in their Status Screen.