Repentance · tainted character

Tainted Eve

Compare base stats, review starting health and inventory, learn how to unlock the character, and follow their completion rewards.

Character unlock

How to unlock Tainted Eve

Reach Home as Eve, then open the hidden door with Red Key, Cracked Key, or Soul of Cain.

Read unlock guide

Base stat profile

Starting combat stats

Values before collectibles, temporary effects, and most character mechanics. Comparison labels use Isaac's standard 1.00 speed, 2.73 tears, 3.50 damage, 6.50 range, 1.00 shot speed, and 0.00 luck as the baseline.

Speed
1.00
Baseline
Tears / sec
1.20
Below baseline×0.66 tears multiplier
Damage
4.20
Above baseline×1.2 damage multiplier
Range
6.50
Baseline
Shot speed
1.00
Baseline
Luck
0.00
Baseline

Reviewed Repentance 1.7.9b reference values. Combat stats are hardcoded by the game and are not stored in the extracted player XML. Check the Tainted Eve reference ↗

Which pickups help this character?

Choose Tainted Eve in the health helper to compare red healing, temporary hearts, coins, and special pickups. For characters with several forms, choose the current form as well.

What do these stats change in a fight?

Read the six HUD stats, understand tears versus shot speed, and compare damage with firing rate. Special weapons and conditional effects need their own rules.

Stats and combat guide

How Tainted Eve works

Learn when firing creates clots, what Sumptorium recalls and why a lost clot cannot be treated as stored healing.

Blood clots and Sumptorium: rules and examples →

Run setup

Starting health and inventory

Base health, pickups, and collectibles from the Repentance player records. Unlockable starting upgrades and special mechanics can change what appears in a run.

Starting health and pickups

2Red hearts

Starting items

Birthright

Coagulate

When a red clot dies, it drops a half red heart that disappears shortly afterward.

Pickup line from the game files. Effect summary checked against External Item Descriptions. See the Birthright item page for general mechanics.

More to earn

Other character rewards

Co-op companions and Soul Stones tied to this character's completion marks.

Track completion marks

Cards and runes

Pocket rewards from completion marks

1 reviewed achievement for this character. Each card names the mark that unlocks it.

Reversed card · Achievement #527

III - The Empress?

Defeat Ultra Greedier as Tainted Eve.

Track this character's marks

Character rewards

Unlockable items and trinkets

4 item reward entries linked to Tainted Eve. Follow the exact requirement shown on each card. Some tainted rewards require a group of completion marks.

Sumptorium appears in both sections: it is this character's starting pocket active, and achievement #589 is a separate item unlock.

These are collectible and trinket rewards in the verified item unlock list. Co-op companions, Soul Stones, cards, and runes with reviewed mark requirements appear in the sections above.

Character-selection and achievement art are from the extracted Repentance files. Starting health, pickups, and items reflect the base player records with reviewed special-character conversions. Combat stats use reviewed Repentance 1.7.9b references because those values are hardcoded and absent from the player XML. Unlock conditions and the additional rewards use reviewed Repentance achievement records and completion references. Repentance+ may differ.