Heya! Back at it again here with a new version, 1.6. The main feature of this update is a brand new opening segment, featuring the climactic moment that decided the fate of Ephysia in the background lore of the world.

- New Level: The new tutorial level features the legendary Seven Heroes of Ephysia defeating their villain, Azoros. Upon starting, you can choose to skip the tutorial and instead play the level normally, but the in depth narrative messages should help people who are new to these types of games understand the core mechanics better. To facilitate this, the original opening tutorial featuring a spar with Theo and Benedicta has been removed, and is now a cutscene.

- Bug fixes: Fixed an instance of Josephine in the 2nd mission "Seeking Justice" being attacked by enemies. She should no longer be targeted by them.

- More Talk Events: Specifically in level 1, there are new talk events between: 
Tristan <-> Benedicta
Theo <-> Katerina
Hiro <-> Tristan
While these don't offer anything valuable for the battle, it gives you the player a chance to see more about these units and their attitudes, as well as how they view each other and a bit of history between them. I plan to add many more of these throughout the levels.

- Balancing: Level one enemies have been massively nerfed and should be easy for Benedicta and Theodore to deal with. As someone with years of experience playing Fire Emblem, I often find myself not realizing how challenging I am making these levels for newer players! I do usually playtest on normal, so it should be better suited for you now.

- New Compendium: The "glossary" feature that comes standard with SRPG Studio has been removed in favor of an extended Compendium. This is organized by page, where you can read about the rich history of Ephysia and the nations that inhabit it. This feature is currently a WORK IN PROGRESS and is a bit buggy. One known bug that I plan to contact the creator of the plugin about is the game crashing when you use the mouse wheel on it.

- Over 5 new tracks added to the OST during the development period. Some of these songs you may not yet see in the game, but they'll be there eventually!