The warrior went on a noble, world-saving quest, and they joined up with two idiots and a manipulator. Sounds like he's not even smart enough to realise he's also an idiot.
Meanwhile, the manipulator teamed up with three idiots, who she can probably manipulate easily. She's going places.
My first thought is brass, as in a machine made of brass gears. Because a machine has nothing in its mind but the instructions it was created with. But that might be too sci-fi, depending on what vibe you're going for.
My second thought is statues, either marble or copper? The monuments of the nation's heroes. It might not have the massive numbers that chaos does, but law need not match chaos when it can contrast it.
the sense I get is that it’s more like Pathfinder with feat trees
It's a class based levelling system, going from 1 to 20, where you get a skill and talent at 1st level based on your starting class, and then develop with every level you gain. You can mix classes as you level up and each class has different paths built into it. You can't jump ahead to grab a later feature without first taking an earlier one, and you can't stack the same feature from different sources for double the effect.
Are there differences? Yes. Is it very different? No. There is more to say how it's similar than how it's different. There are class systems that are very different, but this isn't one of them.
Saying it's not like D&D because it's more like Pathfinder is not a great argument, considering Pathfinder is essentially a split branch of D&D. And since the headline lists both D&D AND Pathfinder, it's still wrong.
The way they describe it, it's still pretty similar to D&D. Level 1 to 20, gain a feature every level, features gained in order, multiclass to get more control over your features... Yeah, that's D&D.
In the Supergirl tv show, there's a hero called Dreamer. Basically, the powers are passed down from mother to daughter, and while everyone accepts Dreamer as a girl, they're surprised when she inherits the powers and not her sister.
The warrior went on a noble, world-saving quest, and they joined up with two idiots and a manipulator. Sounds like he's not even smart enough to realise he's also an idiot.
Meanwhile, the manipulator teamed up with three idiots, who she can probably manipulate easily. She's going places.