Without further ado, here's your last SPOILER WARNING, and let's get on with it!
The Heretic

Who's the real demon here?
Kingdom, meet Heretic. Heretic, Kingdom. Now that you're all well-acquainted, let's get down to brass tacks. The Heretic is the controversial fourth member of the Kingdom's Church building. Available for unlock as soon as you have a level 3 Church (à la Magician), this atypical adventurer plays with gods quite a bit differently from the regular folks. His abilities are as follows:
INDULGENT: Indulgences are never spent, gain health, base damage, and mana based on indulgences
BLASPHEMOUS: Gain 3 CP/piety lost when angering a god, immune to punishments
OBSCENE MISSION: Scout all altars, cannot convert or desecrate, auto-desecrate worshipped altar on level up and reduce piety to 0
Since there's quite a bit behind these short descriptions, let's examine them in detail:
INDULGENT is the most straightforward ability heretics have. They literally cannot lose indulgences (and thus piety loss is not prevented), and gain 1 base damage and 3 health for each one. Furthermore, for each odd indulgence (1, 3, 5, etc.), they gain 1 mana. So in a typical run, this nets you 18 health, 6 base damage, and 3 mana.
BLASPHEMOUS, while also mechanically straightforward, is a bit more interesting in-run. Any time you lose piety by angering a god, you are instantly granted 3 CP per piety lost. Caveats are the following: 1. Pacts are not angering anyone (on the piety panel they are white, not red). 2. Piety must be actually lost to gain CP (so no easy TT CP farming). Another thing worth noting is that heretics' immunity is to ALL punishments, whether from desecration or piety loss.
Last, but definitely not least, is OBSCENE MISSION, the defining ability. Altar scouting is exactly what it sounds like (and also identical to the altar scouting prep from way back in beta days). Inability to convert or desecrate is also simple: When worshipping a god, the buttons that say "Convert" and "Desecrate" on other altars will always be gray. Thus, all that remains is the interesting part: "auto-desecrate worshipped altar on level up and reduce piety to 0." This means that every time you hit an EXP threshold (prestige levels included), you smash your current altar (even if it is unreachable). This grants you 3/2/1 indulgence(s), ends your worship, does not punish you, and sets your piety to 0 (without giving you CP, although Binlor's -10 piety for leveling triggers first for up to 30 CP). Pactmaker cannot be desecrated, and is thus exempted from the whole mess. Furthermore, your piety is only set to 0 if you actually smash an altar, so piety to fuel pacts will stick around between levels where you aren't worshipping (although you'll need sparkles/stone sigil/consensus to get any). One last benefit of this is that you get the starting bonus (piety, glyph, etc.) from every god you worship. Basically, it's a bunch of plusses with the drawback of not really being able to hold on to any god. Not to mention that if you want to get good value out of INDULGENT you'll have to sacrifice an altar or two early.
So that's the short and long of it. We promise it's more intuitive to play than the exposition suggests. Is it crazy? Yes. Is it boatloads of fun? It's my new personal favorite class (take that how you will). Does the way it play vary pretty drastically by god spawn? No question. Is it overpowered? Probably a bit, but it's not the only class in that category.
That's all for now, folks! We hope you're drooling with anticipation and all that. Feel free to comment, speculate, ask further questions, etc. down below! Also, don't expect future spotlight updates to be quite as substantive, since Heretic is the only big thing available upfront (and thus isn't really a spoiler). Future spotlights will likely be on more minor additions/improvements, although there might be another big announcement in the works for one of these. We'll leave it to your imagination. And, as always, download the current build (or read this update on our website) over at [url]ddmod.weebly.com[/url].
Thanks for reading,
The Extreme (Edition) Team