Hexweaver Family Changes (adds 2 units, 6 total):

1. Herculean (formerly Hemlock → Herald): pieces that attack it cannot make a capture

2. Herald (new): May swap itself with another unit in the surrounding 5x5 area

3. Heritor (new): Choose to summon 2 mid level units to open squares that it attacks, then the heritor sacrifices itself.

4. All hexweaver pieces move in the same hex lattice pattern now

New Abilities:

1. Cloaks — five inherent veils, each hiding one class of your pieces for the whole match. Hidden from the engine too, not just the screen.

   1. Riders' Cloak (Zebra, Knight, Unicorn), Siege Cloak (Bishop, Rook), Shade Cloak (Wraith, Spectre), Crown Cloak (Mystic, Templar, Queen), Lattice Cloak (all six hexweavers).

2. Choice Summons — pick the square first, the piece after.

   1. The Stallion (Knight/Zebra/Unicorn), Adapting Apparition (Bishop/Rook/Spectre/Wraith), Conqueror's Judgement (Mystic/Templar/Queen).

3. Morph Expansion — three new inherents in the Chameleon mould: Shapeshift, Metamorph and Vein Walker, each letting a moving piece change into another of its family.

4. Alien Abduction: sacrifice a friendly piece and three turns later a summon charge for that piece type lands in your tray.

5. Mind Curtain: your spell inventory is hidden from your opponent — and the engine plays as though you hold nothing.

6. Duality Flip: mirrors the middle four files, the inner counterpart to Flank Inversion.

7. Reweave: turns the hex lattice a quarter turn — pointy top and bottom, flat sides. The Heritor's mantle is rewoven with it and renamed Mitosis.

8. Terrifying Haze: a 5x5 disarmament field, the big sibling of Frightening Fog.

9. Royalty Paladin: a new teal square condition, delivered either on its own or by Oathbound Rite, which summons a Knight carrying it.

10. Paladin summoning armor - summon a Knight with Paladin move pattern for a few turns.

11. Overextend (replaces omni gaze) now amplifies what it modifies — Reduction clamps tighter, Inheritance promotes two ranks early.

Quality of Life:

1. Cloaked units are read by the engine! They become undervalued and their moves are prunes so attacks are no anticipated

2. Spell Lab picker now sorts five ways: Family, Release, Power, Type and A-Z. Select release to see the latest spells!

3. Oracle Whisper: hover over the spell to see what specific piece captures are present

4. Temporal Pincer: same as oracle whisper plus see what checks are available.

5. Unfinished spells parked: gain (small quests), mori (gain something on unit death), mora (on opponents unit death), dopleganger (random selection) spells have been removed to be redesigned into another part of the game.

Visual Updates:

1. Arcade overlays for the Hexweaver entanglement family — Staff, Scepter and Tomb get the 8-bit treatment, and Frightening Fog is restyled to match them.

2. New cast overlays for Terrifying Haze, Duality Flip and Alien Abduction's tractor beam.

Bigger changes coming...