I noticed another small perk here. I started playing as a Knight, and suddenly I get a quest to find the Necromancer's Amulet...
This was also in the first version; they gave you Phoenixes as a reward for finding the amulet. It's not very useful for a Knight, of course, but you can sell it.
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I think they overdid it with the difficulty this time.