Heretic

Kur-skan, the Heretic is a secret playable character in Risk of Rain 2.

The Heretic cannot be selected from the character selection screen and must be unlocked by collecting all 4 heresy items.

The items in the set and their respective skills are:
 * - Hungering Gaze
 * - Slicing Maelstrom
 * - Ruin
 * - Shadowfade

Along with the skills the character has high health, loses health over time, and has a triple jump. The health loss over time is caused by negative regen, which will be sped up by regen multipliers like Spinel Tonic. This will speed up the health degen and can kill you much faster over time. Although this can be negated by using Transcendence which will remove your negative health regen and stop it from killing you, at the cost of turning your health into shields.

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Trivia

 * The Heretic has the highest base health, and base damage of any playable character, at 440 and 18 respectively, they also have a base speed of 8m/s, which is 1 meter faster than every other playable character.
 * When fighting Mithrix, at the beginning of the 4th phase while absorbing items, the boss will not take the items related to your transformation and you will not revert to your previous Survivor.
 * While fighting Mithrix as the Heretic the boss will use unique dialogue, telling the Heretic to "die again". There is also unique dialogue for when the Heretic has the Halcyon Seed; "THE HERETIC… THE GUARDIAN… HOW? WHO PULLS YOUR STRINGS, VERMIN?"