Randal is getting more and more dark with each post. I watched a bit of the stream, but no interesting questions were asked while I was doing it. Someone asked about the health/endurance system and surprise, surprise, it's still gone. I'm up for only priests of Eothas being able to ally with him.
As someone that really hated the lack of reactivity for Priests of Eothas in the first game (seriously, they have quite a bit less reactivity than most other classes already, and some places were really jarring; unique options would've been good, even if it
changed nothing) I had to hold myself back from going all "About fucking time!" and started arguing for it being exclusive to Priests of Eothas.
However, consider this. Edér. He's (potentially) a devout Eothasian, but he's not a Priest. It's entirely possible to be a pious, devout Eothasian that happens to be of any class. It's a mistake to think that only Priests are religiously devoted, whether it's to a concept or to a literal God. This is a kind of thinking that is rather ingrained in class systems that feature normally religious archetypes like Priest, Cleric, or Paladin. But it's a total narrative trap. I think part of what made Edér unique even though he's not actually unique at all beyond being a regular fucking human being, was the fact that he was religiously devout without being a Paladin and without being a crazy zealot.
I'm up for only priests of Eothas being able to ally with him.
I think they should get some special options when dealing with Eothas, sure, but I don't think they alone should have the option to side with him.
And it probably won't turn out like that, I can't see Sawyer tying such a major end-game choice to class. That would be like if you could only join Caesar's Legion in F:NV if you were male and had negative karma.
I'd actually be totally fine if you only could join the legion as a man. I posit that the analogy is false, because there can be aspects of the world based on who you are as a person that will (or at the very least should) disqualify you from certain options, whether that's because you're not strong enough, whether you haven't earned a reputation, or because you happen to be of the weaker gender and the fairer sex.
Class, however, is almost universally an abstraction for mechanical purposes, even if it is often tied into a narrative (and I don't mind that at all). In this case, it would be very odd if it was restricted to Priests alone, because classes in PoE aren't really representative of your character. I could see problems for Cyphers and Barbarians, maybe, on account of them being soul-fuckers and unhinged, respectively, and possibly for Priests of other given faiths (lolMagran) or Paladins that are assumed to be part of a given group Eothas would likely find objectionable (Bleak Walkers = Blackguards).