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The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon

The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon is a 2024 role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and the 13th installment of the long-running Trails series, part of the larger The Legend of Heroes franchise. A direct sequel to Trails Through Daybreak II, it is set in the year 1209 of the Septian Calendar as Professor Epstein's prophecy of the end nears. Players follow three converging story routes: spriggan Van Arkride, Ashen Chevalier Rean Schwarzer, and Septian Church inquisitor Kevin Graham, as humanity's Project Startaker space program collides with the cosmic secret of Laegjarn, the Sept-Terrion of Time, whose Grand Reset threatens to erase the world. The game pairs a hybrid real-time field battle and turn-based command battle system, the Xipha orbment device, and the demonic Grendel Zolga transformation with Calvard's signature refinement of the Trails formula.

• Hybrid Battle System — Combat seamlessly shifts between real-time Field Battles (landing quick hits on overworld enemies) and turn-based Command Battles, the refined system introduced in the Daybreak arc.
• Xipha Orbment — A custom combat device that governs Arts (magic) and Crafts (skills) through an interchangeable Hollow Core and shard customization, granting each character a distinct loadout.
• Boost, EX Chains and S-Crafts — Charge a shared Boost gauge to unleash empowered Crafts and follow-up EX Chain team combos, and spend a full gauge to trigger each member's screen-clearing S-Craft.
• Three-Route Story Structure — Play separate interwoven routes following Van Arkride, Rean Schwarzer, and Kevin Graham that converge as the narrative advances toward the Grim Garten.
• Grim Garten — An Ouroboros-controlled simulated-reality facility where the three routes convene, offering base upgrades, training content, and additional combat challenges.
• Grendel Zolga / Sir Heart — A demonic transformation available to key cast members that grants overwhelming power in exchange for control, a legacy of Van Arkride's Daybreak-era power.
• Alignment (Law / Gray / Chaos) — Choices made across the routes shift a moral alignment meter that alters dialogue, side content, and the paths available to the player.