Greetings, humans! 
I’m happy to announce that I’ve released an update today. 
Download link as always is in the OP.
No new chapters this time, but tldr I’ve fixed many many bugs and filled in missing graphics. Check out the chagelog (also in the OP) for details.
Four years ago now, @1st_lieutenant_noguchi and I began work on Legends of Avenir. After preliminary work and some months, we announced our concept and some proof of progress. We immediately got some very friendly replies, but without a patch yet, work on our end kept continuing.
Since then, we’ve made our first release, started a Discord server, added more and more routes… And picked up many friends along the way. The real LoA was the friends we made along the way! No really my point is we’ve come a long way, and it sort of hit me like a truck a few days ago when I realized we’ve been working on this for four years.
With that in mind, I’d like to take a second to thank the community and everyone involved for long-term support.
Thank you to those who maintain and contribute to public repositories/resources! From gorgeous animations to placeholder mugs to Skill System maintainers, we couldn’t have done it without you!
Thank you to our lovely spriters! We love our mugs, palettes, and other custom graphics that give Avenir a unique charm. @Author_Pendragon has been doing an inhuman number of palettes for us lately. What a trooper.
Thank you to our musicians! @anon98251803 has put in tons of work for us lately with many phase and battle themes.
Thank you to our writers! wait that just noguchi never mind
Thank you to our diligent playtesters! Without the never-ending stream of bug reports, this project would be a mess. More of a mess than it normally is.
And thank you to everyone’s kind words and support. They are very much heard and appreciated.
Okay okay enough of that. Have some screenshots.
Zaheva’s mug has been reworked. (Thanks to Atey, sponsored by Bartz)
Rex has a new mug. (Thanks to Vlak)
The Mayor of Yerchek has a new mug. (Thanks to RandomWizard)
Leon has a new mug. (Thanks to SqrtOfPi, sponsored by Bartz)
Ajax (playable in the future mage routes) has a new mug. (Thanks to Atey, sponsored by Bartz)
Like I said before, Pendragon has been going off on palettes for us. A lot of the time spend on this update consisted of laying the goundwork for generic Tact promotion palettes. Big thank you to Pendragon for doing all of those well and quickly!
Our next priorities are…
- Updating the Skill System and redoing skill handouts. Noguchi has been working on designing skill lists, and we think that what we will have will be a happy medium between “skill boat” and skills not having much impact.
- Mercenary route edits. The Mercenary->Militia->Wait->Arcanae route is horrendous gameplay-wise and needs heavy redesign from my end. The Mercenary->Militia->Wait->Cesaria route is getting story edits and minor gameplay changes to match. The Mercenary->Bandit->StayBandit route is also getting heavy reworks. We do not anticipate these to take a tremendously long time, but we choose to prioritize cleaning up past oopsies over developing new content.
- Mage routes! We are overall happy with how the military routes have turned out, so once the mercenary edits are done, we will progress to develop the mage routes.
- Unit balancing. Balancing is hard. Really hard. I’m planning on designing an average statter tool/software to help with this and to iron out weirdness, especially with more growth-oriented units.
- Making more use of the world map. Thanks to Llewssor, we have gorgeous world maps, a small (~screen size) map currently in use in the prologue as well as a full size world map that has not been implemented yet. Over time, we plan to use both of these more in conversations and between chapters to improve the narrative.
- Of course tweaks and bugfixes. We love all of the bug reports that keep rolling in! They’re extremely helpful.
I hope you enjoy the release and look forward to future updates. Stay safe, and stay sane!