Externus: Path of the Solari is a character-driven tactical roleplaying game (RPG) adapted from an original tabletop game. The game features turn-based tactical combat, full 3D battlefields, character-driven story, choose your own adventure sequences, permadeath that changes the story, and more.

## About This Game
## Overview
Externus: Path of the Solari is a character-driven tactical roleplaying game
(RPG) adapted from an original tabletop game. We take inspiration from classic
tactical RPGs along with modern game development to craft our own story and
give you characters that matter. Our approach is designed to allow you to get
to know the characters in your party along with strategic combat in full 3D
environments. We encourage party interaction through our campfire scenes and
storybook sequences that pay homage to the original tabletop game.
## Features

* Strategic Turn-Based Tactical Combat
* Full 3D Battlefields
* Character-Driven Story
* Storybook Choose Your Own Adventure Sequences
* Death Matters, Each Ally You Lose Will Change Your Story
* Unique Full-Color Artstyle
* Based On An Original Tabletop RPG

We’re currently expecting to launch the game in the Summer of 2021.
## Gameplay
Externus: Path of the Solari features classic turn-based gameplay. Our battles
will take place in full 3D battlefields that allow you to rotate the camera a
full 360 degrees. Our character-driven story will be told using those
battlefields alongside interactive story sequences featuring custom artwork.
You can traverse our world using a map that highlights the two distinct
continents that make up the world of Externus. The world map features unique
artwork inspired by early cartography.

Externus: Path of the Solari uses a turn-based battle system that takes
advantage of our full 3D battlefields to make sure you can see all angles of
the battlefield. This will help you weigh all your options from a tactical
standpoint. The detailed battlefields feature elevation and other tactical
landscapes to use to your advantage when facing your opponent. Sometimes it’s
just easier to push someone off a cliff, right? Your choices make all the
difference in combat.

Our goal for the battle system in Externus: Path of the Solari is to challenge
the player so that they feel accomplished in defeating their foes. You should
think about the risks and rewards of bringing certain characters and using
their specialized abilities. Your actions and choices matter. Think about the
world in terms of fate. Was it fate that a character died? Was it a punishment
from the gods or just a mistake caused by an error in tactics? Death will be
permanent in Externus, how will you react? Let the story play out and see how
a character’s death affects those who knew them both in positive and negative
ways. Maybe it’ll even send a ripple effect out into the world!

Externus: Path of the Solari is a storybook brought to life and your actions
on and off the battlefield can change the pages as they’re presented. This
goes back to our tabletop roots of wanting to tell a collective story that
changes based on the players around the table.

## Story

The world of Externus: Path of the Solari was crafted through years of playing
the tabletop game and was a world created with friends. Fate plays a large
role in our world as the balance between order and chaos is constantly
shifting. We find ourselves in a time where two Gods have been slain by a
powerful unknown enemy. Was fate in play here or did the Gods’ time end before
it was supposed to? Can even the Gods escape Fate or will the world be plunged
into chaos?

The story of Externus: Path of the Solari follows Osmund Steele and his sons
Alrik and Amante as they travel through the continents of Alcretia and
Katrona. Osmund is part of an order known as the Soldat Solari, a tradition he
intends to pass down to his sons, that is tasked with keeping balance and
order throughout the world of Externus. Our story begins as we follow the
Steele family and their companions on their way toward the town of Zyais when
they run into unexpected trouble from a mysterious group known as The
Monotheists. This group of zealots is led by a man named Gabriel who has a
history with Osmund and the Soldat Solari. Was it fate that brought them
together on this day? Was it the will of the gods? With Gabriel in the picture
and rumors swirling of a larger threat, known only as The Abomination, the
Steele family will have a lot of roadblocks in their way as they try to keep
the balance of the world from shifting into chaos. Will your choices balance
things or plunge them further into chaos? What does Fate have in store for you
and your companions? Death matters in the world of Externus and losing an ally
can change the story.
## About Winterborn
Winterborn was formed by Kent Gambill in November of 2018 to make a tactical
role-playing game set in a world he created over 15 years ago as a tabletop
game. The studio was founded alongside Moudy Hamo, Jack Steele, Stephen
Boilegh, and Trevor Osz to make a game using their unique skills.

As a studio, Winterborn was formed to adapt the original tabletop game that
the team played for many years into a video game. We all have fond memories
and a lot of stories to tell about our time playing the game. Now is our
chance to tell those stories and make the kind of games that we grew up
playing.

Externus: Path of the Solari