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+New skills
+Tether
+	- hit an enemy, inflict a visual bind for a few seconds, end effect depends on which form the player is in when it ends
+	- light form: blind enemy (make them walk the other direction)
+	- shade form: instakill after a certain enemy HP threshold, slow otherwise
+
+Reality Break
+	- light form: make all enemies double their drop rates
+	- shade form: instantly kill all enemies, halves drop rates
+	
+Shatterstep
+	- light form: for X seconds, create a platform below your feet when jumping, allowing for multiple jumps in the air
+	- shade form: when jumping, create aoe below you upon landing
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+
+Skill upgrades
+Dash
+	- Refund cost upon successful stun/kill
+	- lower cooldown
+	- more range
+	- build up movement speed stacks with every dash, lose stacks upon getting hit
+	- more damage against targets that are stunned (inflict mark?)
+	- leave behind afterimage (enemy taunt)
+	
+Ranged Attack
+	- hold to charge, release for stronger attack (more damage and stun)
+	- faster speed, higher charge cost
+	- slower speed but more damage
+	- upgrade light form: pierce and slow
+	- upgrade shade form: aoe
+	- for every enemy kill collect stacks that increase damage, lose stacks upon not finishing enemies
+	
+Tether
+	- light form: higher hp threshold for kill; if used against boss: slower attacks
+	- shade form: longer fear; if used against boss: slower movement speed
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+How to obtain skill upgrades
+- vendor (smith? trainer?) that can upgrade one spell (selection can be changed but requires paying for it every time)
+- item (gem?) that can be slotted into armor to unlock a skill upgrade
+- ring to go with necklaces (no synergy to not force those even more like armor already does)
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+Ascended armor
+	- select one awakened armor piece as the main piece and one as the sacrifice
+	- select X number of traits from the sacrifice to merge onto the main piece
+	- sacrifice gets destroyed in the process, creating an Ascended armor piece
+	- cost: many coins/rare resource?
+	
+
+Further ideas
+
+Quests:
+	Repeatable
+		- usually has a loot pool of items but the player also gains resources to buy stuff from this loot pool (as some sort of pity system)
+	One-time
+		- fixed reward
+		- essential or useful for progression
+		
+Boss Tokens
+- bosses drop an item (unique per boss) that can be "collected" (diary) to fight them again
+- token can be brought to a specific NPC to upgrade it to fight harder bosses
+
+Rework for Charge -> Flow, butterflies (for lore) instead of Lanterns
+
+Regions
+	1st region: Shade mode is a thing, but not widely used. Player gets used to FLOW. First easy quest.
+	2nd region: Shade mode is needed for a handful of interactions, but not really for combat. First boss fight. First ability. Town 1.
+	3rd region: Shade mode is required to access areas or NPCs. New boss which unlocks region 4, but is optional for now.
+	4th region: Access through third area boss. Shade mode is required to traverse (unique environmental effects). Boss fight that has special targeting projectiles
+	if the player isn't in shade mode. New ability. Fast travel to 5th region/Town 2?
+	5th region: Alternate to 4th region in terms of progress. Light area. Town 2. Quest board/NPCs/player housing (for accessing the diary)
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+	Ability changes (ideas)
+	Ranged:
+		- pierce
+		- less dmg for less flow cost
+		- faster/ramp up traveling speed/scale damage with speed
+		- more damage to specific enemies
+		- bigger but slower
+		- other directions (up/diagonal?)
+		- hold button to charge/release, first enemy hit will be marked for ? seconds, further shots will home in on marked enemy
+	
+	Ground slam shade:
+		- knockback
+		- dmg immunity when hitting 1+ enemies
+		
+	Light step:
+		- dmg up for ? seconds after/when touching platform
+		- speed increase after/when touching platform
+
+Companion (fairy)
+	- interaction/guide
+	- ability: fairy bond teleport?
+
+Fairy bond
+	- reinforce bond with fairy companion: allow fairy scout mode (fly and look but no interactions) and later on teleport to companion if it flies
+	ahead in this mode
+	- access to this bond mode takes a few seconds (channel) to not make the light step ability unneccessary
+	- fairy can make light at the expense of the player's flow
+	- fairy holes (environmental features/shortcuts) where player can teleport through with bond teleport
+	
+Fast travel
+- items found all over the map (rune stones) which can be slotted into special devices to link those together as fast travel points
+
+Enemies
+	design/behavior?
+		- slow patrol, move/jump in player direction
+		- slow patrol, doge backwards and leap at player
+		- stationary, shoot at player, burrow to somewhere else nearby
+		
+Quick recharge
+- player can collect something in advance to refill charge mid-battle with a quick press of a button
+	
+Death
+- what does the player lose?
+- upgrades to lose less?
+	
+Lore
+- player character is a being of light and dark, created by a forbidden love between a light and dark being
+- gods? -> forbidden child <- banished and sleeping -> woken up long later by fairy companion (this is where the game starts)?
+- parents of player character sent companion to support and guide the player back to their parents
+- flow/charge is not inheritently dark or light, it is simply a resource that exists in the player character and a few other things in the world
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+World change
+- mid game progress: unique weapon that the player can choose to take
+- world changes if weapon is taken
+- if weapon is not taken, player can still explore and return later to take the weapon unless they trigger a different event which would also change the world
+(but differently compared to when they'd take the weapon) -> do they still get that weapon but in a different variant?