I apologize for the masculine or pronouns things, those are more often a mistake (Actually since we are different writers but, I personally avoid using any pronouns to refer to you, but other writers sometimes have a few mistakes) - if you have the chance to join discord and share these errors it would be easier and faster for us to fix them.
Magic is to a degree implemented, mostly in opening up new combat classes. You get there through the main story. You also use it in the main story, but there is no mechanic to corrupt or transform people with it yet.
We are also constantly working on rebalancing combat, in the next updates we'll be changing a few things to it, but we have done some stuff already, altho I am not sure if that is in this itch.io version or the most recent public patreon version.
There are 3 masculine men: Gedim (wolf man), the blacksmith and the trainer, and we'll be adding a few more, but yes the yare not the main focus