Red Hearts supply charges
Red health is not her protective health bar. A half Red Heart supplies one Blood Charge. Soul and Black Hearts supply health, while Blood Charges can fund active uses when regular charges are short.
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Repentance · Charges and temporary effects
Tainted Bethany:
Blood charges and Lemegeton
Separate red-heart charges from Soul health and understand the temporary item effects supplied by Lemegeton.
Understand the system
Protect the wisps that power the build.
Lemegeton supplies an item effect on a wisp
The summoned passive effect lasts while its wisp is alive. Destruction removes that effect. Treat it as a vulnerable addition to the build, rather than an ordinary acquired collectible.
A room pool is a chance, not a guarantee
Lemegeton has a 25% current-room-pool branch; otherwise it selects from a random pool. Only summonable items qualify. Its wisps do not grant transformation progress or the normal initial health/pickup reward of a collectible.
Original item and pickup art identifies the linked reference entries. These icons are not screenshots of a clot, wisp, bag contents or poop queue.
Practice the decision
What changes after this action?
These are fixed teaching examples with stated conditions. Choose an action and compare what you have before and after it.
Tainted Bethany
Collect one full Red Heart below the charge cap
Before
Blood Charge reserve has at least 2 free slots
After
2 Blood Charges added; protective health unchanged
Each half Red Heart gives one charge.
Check before acting: Find Soul or Black Hearts when your actual health needs replenishing.
This reference does not read your save, calculate a crafting recipe or simulate an arbitrary inventory, health bar, queue or combat state.
Before the next action
- Collect red pickups for charges and Soul or Black Hearts for survival.
- Consider where to spend Lemegeton uses without promising a particular item.
- Avoid using wisps as disposable shields when their item effects keep your build working.