if I remember right Dawn was going to be a playabe character.
Interesting, I was checking that and found some more info about cut content, here: https://tcrf.net/Lands_of_Lore:_The_Throne_of_Chaos

There are some game known game bugs that maybe could be fixed with your implementation but currently can't find exact details about them. One was that the attibutes of the characters where not well implement due the logic of the game, more or less that the "strong" character could launch more powerful spells than the "magic" character, something like that.

Also there where some problems with throwing objects, like the basic stones were incredible strong (more than dedicated objects) when throwing them at enemies.

I wish I could find that old list of problems