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Repentance · Changing build
Recognize damage-triggered rerolls, separate self-damage payments and understand which acquired items Birthright protects.
Understand the system
Nonfatal qualifying damage rerolls Tainted Eden's base stats and rerollable held items. Held trinkets and pocket consumables can change too. Item pools constrain replacements; a hit is not a way to request one specific item.
Self-damage payments, such as a Blood Donation Machine, do not cause the character's damage reroll. They still spend health. Other item effects can react to that payment independently.
Birthright protects collectibles acquired before it from this character reroll. Later acquisitions remain eligible. The protected items do not freeze the randomized base stats or guarantee the whole later build will stay fixed.
Birthright is an optional protection reference. Tainted Eden starts with randomized items, not a guaranteed Birthright.
Practice the decision
These are fixed teaching examples with stated conditions. Choose an action and compare what you have before and after it.
Tainted Eden
Before
Rerollable build; no Birthright; ordinary nonfatal enemy hit
After
Rerollable held build and base stats rerolled
The hit triggers the character reroll. Replacements are not chosen here, and the resulting health and weapon need inspection.
Check before acting: Move to safety before relying on the previous weapon or active.
Birthright is an optional protection reference. Tainted Eden starts with randomized items, not a guaranteed Birthright.
This reference does not read your save, calculate a crafting recipe or simulate an arbitrary inventory, health bar, queue or combat state.
