Gameplay Mechanics:

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  Alignment System:
  Players' choices shape their character's alignment, which affects interactions, recruitable units, and story outcomes. Alignment ranges from Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil, and various factions to side with are gradually revealed over the length of the story. Faction alignment affects characters and races who will be sympathetic to the Resistance.

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  Class System:
  All characters can access a vast, branching tree of classes to unlock new abilities and skill trees. Branch out into Military, Stealth, or Magic, or blend them as you go. Mastering one class benefits progression in subsequent ones, offering incentive to master each class fully. 

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  Deployment Missions:
  No unit is left behind. Players can send extra units on missions to unlock rewards, find new dungeons, and even open story paths. Basic ones can be tackled at any time, while progressive missions unlock as the story unfolds. 

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  Inventory and Equipment:
  Characters carry a limited inventory, including medicinal items with a certain amount of uses. Players can recruit blacksmiths and merchants into their fold to unlock unique crafting options to further enhance customization.

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  Skill Trees:
  Characters learn active and passive skills, divided into Action, Passive, Reaction, and Tactical categories. In addition to class skill trees, story characters have their own branch of skills they can learn. Maxing out support between characters unlocks a custom new skill tree that progresses their bond beyond what is seen in today's RPGs. Players can also learn Finishers, powerful skills that charge over time and can turn the tide of battle.

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  Support System:
  Popularized in games like Fire Emblem, pair your favorite characters together to unlock scenes, bonuses, and new skill trees for both of them. A negative support rank affects morale and can cause unaligned characters to potentially desert. Even player-created units can partake in support ranks!

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  Tactical Battle System:
  Tactical warfare takes on two different tones. Grand-scale wars utilize close to your entire army, allowing you to pair units together and work to secure a large field or overwhelm a boss. Small, focused dungeoneering teams are for your elites or require certain members, where you'll plunge into a dungeon or series of smaller battles and need to sustain your units over multiple fights. All units serve a purpose and benefit from being utilized. 

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  Landmark System:
  In addition to learning skills through class or support ranks, units can complete Landmarks to achieve new stat boosts or learn new skills. These can range from killing 100 of a certain enemy type, performing 5 critical finishers, or even achieving a certain Support Rank with another character.  

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Classes and Skills:
The game offers a wide variety of classes, each with its own skill tree. Examples include:

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  Knight Savant
  An unmatched class of knight, awarded only to the strongest. Skill types include guarding or parrying skills, like Perfect Parry (120 SP) to passively increase chances to evade or counter, or devastating holy strikes, like Manaion Strike (200 SP) to unleash light damage for 6 tiles ahead.

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  :Sworddancer:
  Agile masters of the sword who specialize in elaborate blade dances. Skills range from focused strikes, like Finishing Flourish (100 SP) that has a chance equal to the player's level divided by two to instantly kill a target - bosses excluded - or skills with a wider focus like Teeter Dance (85 SP) that strikes all surrounding enemies with a chance to confuse them as well. 

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  Sorcerer
  Masters of arcane magic to the extent of bending reality. Abilities range from manipulating the atmosphere, like Reality Bend (50 SP) to teleport to a specific spot in range on the map, to darker spells like Essence Siphon (60 SP) to turn enemy lifeforce into your own.

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  Blacksmith
  Masters of metal and armament design, available only to unique units. Blacksmiths are usually passive units in your camp, but they'll need to join you in battle from time to time. Though not meant for combat, their skills are focused on craftsmanship, like Tinkering (40 SP) to create a random useful item or weapon, or their expertise of their craft, like Exploit (40 SP) to point out faults in enemy armor and increase damage against them. 
  
  Story and World:

Set in the fantastical continent of Laia, players embark on a journey to unite nations against the demons who divide them. Alliances, alignment, and allegiance all form pivotal points in who will offer their support or join your cause, affecting story development and outcomes. A wild continent means new, unorthodox locations for exploration or battle, and a wealth of unprecedented allies. The Resistance will have to face the great demons who oppress them while forging alliances and learning more about their enemies.

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Visuals and Art Style:

The game will feature a visually captivating HD2D world with diverse landscapes, races, creatures, and characters. Animated battle sequences and detailed character sprites will help bring tactical combat to life. Visuals will include maps of lush forests, eerie dungeons, and even aquatic domains. 

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Audio and Music:

A dynamic soundtrack will adapt to the game's atmosphere, appropriating themes and beats to certain characters and fights to enhance immersion. For example, fights against orcs will feature harsh, drumming tones or the use of horns, adopting the same atmosphere to the themes in dealing with orcs. Ambient sounds and pieces of voice acting will contribute to the overall worldbuilding.