An idea I have thats similiar to the star tree, what if there was something like that but for individual characters building off of effects similiar to the birthrights like Isaac having things like chance of a more permanent birthright along with things like chances of dice items ad shards spawning.

Oh god i have way too many ideas for the Tarnished characters from epiphany, i might as well put some of them here instead of the discord thread

- Tarnished Judas:
Irredeemable: 5% chance for angel deals to remove one fewer broken heart than they would have. This chance increases by 5% for each broken heart you have beyond the first. (This is a good thing)

- Tarnished Maggy:
Desperately Clingy: Cardiac Arrest projectiles now have homing. Cardiac Arrest gives you 2 additional bleed points.

- Tarnished Keeper:
Tax Evasion: +0.01 speed for each coin you save on pedestal items, up to 0.5. Getting hit resets this bonus.
Bank Interest: Bombing a donation machine spawns an additional nickel for each floor you've been on this run. These coins don't come from your donations.

- Tarnished Eden:
Chance to give Debug an extra charge when clearing a room. (Small nodes)

- Tarnished Isaac:
Tragic Momento: Consuming Blight with the Blighted or Broken Dice grants +0.5 tears, up to +2. This bonus resets each floor.

What about Tarnished Lost and Cain?

- Tarnished Cain:
One Man's Trash: Up to twice per run, chance to spawn two random Quality 0 items in the starting room.

- Tarnished Lost:
Chance for Divine Remnants to gain an extra charge when its shield breaks (small nodes)

And lastly because we both forgot:

- Tarnished Samson
IT'S A BAPTISM OF BLOOOOOD: Enemies damaged during Immortal Rage gain the Hemoptysis debuff.

oh yeah and a universal thing for Tarnished characters, as a counterpart to Coalescing Soul:

Last Lifeblood:
If you're not holding a Bagged Essence or an Essence corresponding to your character, 20% chance to spawn a Bagged Essence at the start of each floor, up to twice per run. (On sale for 5 cents if you're Tarnished Keeper.)
+5% all stats when using a Bagged Essence.
Bagged Essences can no longer show up naturally.

Been trying out a character I haven't really paid attention to before, but he's actually REALLY fun, so here's some concepts for Duke!

Small/Medium Nodes:

- Chance for non-red, non-soul hearts to grant an additional Red Heart Orbital Fly

- Chance for healing with soul hearts to grant a Soul Heart Orbital Fly

- Chance for an additional heart to drop on room clear

- Chance for Heart Attack Flies to drop a half heart on death even if they weren't converted by Duke's Gullet

Large Nodes:

Cavalry:
- Gain Hive Mind when entering a boss room.
- Lose Hive Mind when exiting a boss room.
- Automatically use Duke's Gullet when entering a boss room.

Death Spiral
- Start with Spin to Win.
- -50% damage and tears while not holding Spin to Win.
- Heart Orbital Flies deal double contact damage while using Spin to Win.

Quantity Over Quality:
- Start with a smelted Fish Tail.
- Heart Attack Flies die automatically after 3 rooms.