Editing Mystic Empyrean (section)

==The Fluff==
===What Happened===
A thousand years ago, everything was awesome, and all seven elements were in perfect balance. Empyrean was an infinite world spanning in all directions, with Grand Cornerstone, a ten mile tall pillar of gemstone, set at its center. Then, suddenly, Grand Cornerstone exploded into a million billion little bits, and all of reality shattered. Into the cracks came the grey and black mists of Aether, which proceeded to devour all of creation, annihilating entire Realms and bits of history, eradicating them utterly. A thousand years have passed since then, and this is where play begins.

===Cornerstones===
Every bit of reality that was blown away and devoured by the Aether was stored inside of crystals called cornerstones. Each cornerstone is a fragment of Grand Cornerstone. Cornerstones break down into a few specific types, those that contain realms, those that contain entire concepts of creation (Laws of physics and cornerstones of civilization and such), and those that contain powers for a single individual. Finding and unlocking cornerstones is the primary goal of Mystic Empyrean, since they are key to rebuilding creation. The will of those unlocking a cornerstone seems to effect the realm that is pulled out, so there is a very personal stake for those unlocking realm cornerstones. Those who do so will change what Empyrean is and what it was, altering creation to their whim, leading to conflict over Cornerstones.

===Inhabitants===
At the top of the food chain are the seven great elemental spirits. Each of these guys embodies a different element and is displayed as a different animal. Since each element represents very different things emotionally and intellectually within the world of Empyrean, each of these spirits also embodies those things. So the Fire spirit is a lion who embodies conflict and force, and encourages all of these things. He doesn't care which side is in the right during a war, nor does he care who wins or loses, only that the war is fought.

Below them are Eidolons. Eidolons are beings who are literal embodiments of their emotions. The player characters are Eidolons. Eidolon's are physical embodiments of their personalities, and depending on how they act, an Eidolon will change apperance and even develop new powers. So a Bloodthirsty Eidolon will start growing armor and weapons out of their body, eventually becoming an unstoppable killing machine, but so consumed by their blood thirst that to maintain their immovable-object armor and unstoppable-force in-grown weaponry, they have to kill a sapient being in combat every few hours or lose their power. Eidolons can either be born from nascent beings who are consumed by their personalities and thus undergo some sort of apotheosis, or they can be born out of thin air to fulfill some need, desire, or widely accepted thought.

Then there are Nascent, who are pretty much everyone else who is fully sapient and what we might consider "mortal". They're the NPC's for the most part, making up the unwashed masses. They might have special powers, but these are defined by technology or by biology, not by their personalities.

Next are Aetherlings, beings from the Aether who live to destroy and undo all of creation, attempting to spread the reach and taint of Aether across what remains of Empyrean. They can be massive and terrible, the size of continents, or they can be slinky and sly, infiltrating governments and cultures of Realms to undo them from within. They are all but unkillable, immune to Anima abilities (eg: Everything the player characters are likely to have on them) and most "physical" objects, requiring that they be buried in the bed rock or otherwise killed by Aether based weaponry and abilities. 

===Where We Are Now===
Basically, where once there was a giant world of adventure and perfection with a single history and set of physics, now there are dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of individual realms all separated by giant swaths of Aether covered wasteland that bar passage to most beings. Each realm has it's own history, it's own laws of physics, it's own materials and animals and cultures and technology that are separate from all the other realms and at the same time connected back to the initial event, the shattering of Grand Cornerstone. The player characters seek to rebuild Empyrean in their own image by locating and unlocking Cornerstones.