Editing Mystic Empyrean (section)

===The Balance System===
The Balance System is based around a set of 9 different cards. 7 Elements on a wheel, Anima Cards for critical successes (always in the players' favor), and Aether Cards for critical failures (always against the players' favor). The composition of the deck is effected by the Realm in which the PC's find themselves, while the number of redraws per action the PC gets is determined by their own stats.

When attempting an action, the current GM assigns an element to that action. For example, a direct attack would get Fire as it's element. The elements are set up in a wheel. If the player draws fire, that's a "Success And" or a total success. He succeeds at what he's trying to do, and something else that's good happens. If he draws a card that is placed to either side of fire on the elemental wheel, then he gets a "Success But" or an outside success. He succeeds at what he's trying to do, but something else happens that mitigates it. One more space away from Fire in either direction would be a "Failure But", or an outside failure, where the character fails to do what he wants, but something good comes of it anyway. Finally, he might draw from either of the two elements placed directly opposite of Fire on the wheel, which would mean a "Failure And", or complete failure, where not only does the character fail in his attempted action, but something else bad happens on top of that. Drawing an Anima is automatically a total success, and drawing an Aether is automatically a total failure, without the option to redraw.

The Realm, or world, the PC's find themselves in determines the balance of the deck. Each realm has a certain number of points distributed amongst the 7 elements. This determines the deck composition for the Realm, making certain actions harder or easier based on the prevalence of a certain element in the realm. Eidolons can alter the Realm Balance by burning Anima, as explained above, adding cards to the deck.

Eidolon's Personal Balance gives them the ability to redraw from the deck a certain number of times for appropriate actions. So for our fire action here, if our Eidolon had 3 points of fire in his personal balance, he could redraw 3 times trying to get a fire card, unless he drew an aether card first.