This looks and sounds fantastic but is quite buggy.
You get elixers with the first time interacting with the green orb, subsequent times they are removed from your inventory.
elixer's description says it will revive, but you can't use it on dead people.
interacting with green orb says it restores helpers but it does not.
It feels like it is really close to something cool and fun, but when two of your helpers are killed in the first battle before they have a chance to do anything, that is immediately lost.
Not sure how/if it incorporates the theme, but was not able to get far enough to really evaluate that.