Battling with Hero?

[blascid]

Hello,

I'm just playing the demo at this point, (which looks very promising) but I do have just one question.

In the beginning of the game when I was taking the last "test" for the king--I was able to use my main hero in battle to fight/cast spells/whatever but I quickly realized that outside those first three rooms, when in battle, my main hero was not on the fighting board. This is something that I was slightly disappointed by..

So; "Will I ever be able to use my main hero in battle, or is he going to be absent throughout the rest of the game?"

Many thanks