A World in Ruins
Grand Cornerstone is destroyed—shattered into a thousand fragments. With it, all the world is divided and dissolved into mist. Now it falls to a chosen few to heal the land and rebuild Grand Cornerstone, creating the world anew according to their own design.
In the darkness of the mist that shrouds the world, the forces of Oblivion gather in sinister vigil, seeking the remaining pieces of Grand Cornerstone to destroy them utterly. Will you be able to protect the world you've created, or is it fated again to fall into darkness?
Your World to Rebuild
Mystic Empyrean is a unique Role Playing Game that focuses on world creation, social character development, and storytelling. Check out the links below the central image to see the boundless possibilities that the world of Empyrean has to offer.
Anima
The balance of Anima, the raw energy of creation, is unstable and constantly changing. As you call upon the power of the great spirits, or use the forces of creation within your own soul, you will tip the balance of energy, altering the world around you in subtle ways. Violence begets conflict. Diplomacy invites peace. Creativity breeds innovation.
The balance of Anima influences not only the outcome of your actions, but it alters situations and places in subtle ways. The people you meet, the trials you encounter, and the monsters you fight are all a result of the shifting balance of Anima, and thus, a result of your own actions.
The Balance
Mystic Empyrean uses a unique system called 'The Balance' for resolving actions. The Balance creates a sliding scale of odds and opportunities that skews certain actions towards a greater chance of success based on what actions have been previously committed. If you destroy, steal, hide, or pry, those actions become more successful for all parties—including your enemies.
The Balance is more than a resolution tool, however—it is a storytelling tool that can be used to build scenario encounters, create monsters, devise puzzles, and fill storytelling gaps in any situation.
Player Characters
Eidolons are beings of power, formed of the raw stuff of creation, and able to harness the forces of nature to their wills. They wear their souls as a skin, and this gives them a power that reflects the desires of their hearts.
Eidolons possessed by wrath gain control over fire, while those driven by duty become bound by physical chains reflecting it. An Eidolon embodying creativity becomes a living work of art, and one who surrounds himself with sorrow can possess a literal heart of stone.
Becoming
Mystic Empyrean features a character development system that is unique among RPGs. Rather than driving your character's development with experience points or classes, player growth is dictated by roleplaying choices.
The personalities that your character exemplifies in-game will become the root of his or her powers. Characters continually evolve to discover new powers within themselves—but be wary of becoming consumed by your vices, or even virtues, as they will turn against you when over-indulged!
Rotating Game Mastery
Take control of fate by collaboratively storytelling with your friends! The Balance gives you the tools to seamlessly create and expand upon the world on the fly, without pre-planning every detail of your world ahead of time. Since players rotate the role of storyteller, they collectively build narratives and conflicts. Individual players can take control of overarching plots and side stories to create an epic thread that ties the individual conflicts together.
Storytelling
Mystic Empyrean is a world where you can tell your story. The game book includes various campaign options for bringing your tale into modern, fantasy, and science fiction worlds. It also gives you tools for creating scenario plots, growing personal backstories, and side quests.
Through a system of ownership, players each manage different aspects of the world, and collaboratively tell their story by deferring to one another. Ownership allows the disparate creations of players to merge into a seamless single world, and prevents players from stepping on the toes of each others' running plots.
Release Information
A free preview game is now available at DriveThruRPG.
The complete game is now available for pre-order and is expected to be released in November of 2011.
To request additional information, inquire about licensing, preview opportunities, distribution, or to obtain a press kit, please email MysticEmpyrean @gmail.com
Project Mystic Empyrean
This site and all contents © by 2010 D. Brad Talton Jr.
