It's finally here! Adds ~61,800 words to the story plus ~6,700 words in codex character entries.  ❤️

I would HIGHLY recommend you start on a new save as I have had to make some changes to variables and stats which will be detailed below, but starting from an existing save may break some things later in the game for you and you won't unlock the codex or stat pages if you don't.

In this update, you will:

• Meet Lady Safina (Parim and Aurora's mother) and talk to Aurynn
• Meet Lady Najaat (Nour's mother) and speak with your own mother
• Play a flashback scene involving you, your mother, and Luca from your childhood
• Speak with Samira
• Get your food and bed stolen by your greedy little hog of a serval, Farwah
• Meet the rest of MC's siblings (Aurora, Castor, and Ember) and Something or Someone Else™️ in a dream sequence
• Speak with Luca in a dream
• Use your divination to have a vision
• Ouchies T-T
• (Mostly) Accidentally snoop through Aurynn's mail with Samira
• Find Aurynn in the library vault

Detailed changes below:

• Changed the Straightforward stat to "Sincere"
• Added "Aloof" stat
• MC's personality is now divided between two types of stats: your main stat (charismatic, gentle, confrontational, dignified, imposing) and your secondary stat (manipulative, aloof, sincere)
• Minor edits throughout demo and Character Creator
• Added custom pronouns to Character Creator
• Added cis/trans option to Character Creator (originally, this was going to be a choice introduced in chapter 2, but upon further thought I felt it would be easier to establish cis/trans early on and then in chapter 2 there will still be a scene that reflects on and clarifies mc's gender identity)
• Added new music tracks
• Updated UI
• Added main menu
• Added OpenDyslexic font to Settings
• Added options to be able to rename saves to the Settings or have them autoname for you for ease of keeping track of save files
• Added Stats page
• Added character codex entries (codex is currently still a WIP in terms of UI and content and more entries on lore/history/magic etc will be added later)

Thank you so much for all the support you've shown the demo this last year and I am so sincerely grateful for all the kind messages people have sent! I hope you enjoy the update--I worked very hard on it! :D

The next update, Chapter 1 Part 4, will finish off chapter one.