History Characters / TheBindingOfIsaacEpiphany

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[[caption-width-right:102: LESS OPTIONS\\
[[LuckManipulationMechanic MORE CONTROL]]]]

Tarnished Isaac, just like his Tainted counterpart, has only 8 item slots to use. In exchange for his cycling item pedestals, Tarnished Isaac starts with a Blighted Die, which allows him to turn one of his items into a choice of two of the same quality and item pool after 6 charges or via touching an item pedestal not spawned by it. The Blighted Die can be used when it's not fully charged, but it only spawns 1 item pedestal and removes a red heart container (or deals 2 hearts of damage to you if you don't have any). Tarnished Isaac is unlocked by obtaining the Blighted Photo from the first floor Treasure Room as Tainted Isaac and carrying it to Home.\\

His Birthright gives him a chance that the Blighted Die spawns an item that has a quality of 1 higher than the item rerolled.

* BodyHorror: While Tainted Isaac looked [[BrokenBird somewhat beaten up]], Tarnished Isaac is outright ''mutilated''. The same goes for his pocket item, Blighted Die, which is a D6 ''made out of rotten flesh''.
* DifficultButAwesome: Making the best use out of the Blighted Die requires a good understanding of the item pools and qualities. With that knowledge in hand, a player can take advantage of the system in order to fish for whatever item they please.
* DiscardAndDraw: Compared to Tainted Isaac, Tarnished Isaac doesn't have the gimmick of pedestals switching between two items. In exchange, he gets the Blighted Die, allowing him to "reroll" the items in his inventory.
* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Is only limited to 8 items, just like Tainted Isaac. Unlike his counterpart, Tarnished Isaac lacks the extra choices and needs to strategically reroll useless items rather than just swapping them out.
* ObviousRulePatch: Originally it was possible to get unlimited free healing as Tarnished Isaac by emptying an item pool, causing you to spawn Breakfast with each reroll. To combat this, the team added an item called Blight, which spawns in place of Breakfast when you reroll an HP up into an empty pool with Blighted Die.
* PowerAtAPrice:
** In a different way than Tainted Isaac. While still limited to 8 items, Tarnished Isaac has the Blighted Die, allowing him to replace items in his inventory with 1 of 2 items of a similar rarity.
** Speaking of the Blighted Die, after every use, it turns into the Broken Die until fully charged. While you can still use the Broken Die, you only get a single option and removes a red heart container.

A version of Samson even more focused on his rage and super strength. Instead of firing tears, he unleashes a flurry of melee-ranged punches, and also charges a meter that causes him to slam the ground, dealing damage to nearby enemies and raining debris from the ceiling. Taking and dealing damage also charges up his Slaughter Bar, which temporarily increases his damage and tears. If he dies with at least one tier of the Slaughter Bar filled, he instead enters Immortal Rage, making him unkillable and granting a massive Tears boost, but immediately killing him upon expiring if he didn't deal enough damage. He begins with Killer Instinct in his pocket item slot, which causes Samson to charge forward, making him invincible and damaging enemies he charges through. However, if used while he's holding debris, he smashes it over his head to immediately enter Immortal Rage. He's unlocked by obtaining Delilah's Razor as Tainted Samson and completing three Challenge Rooms, then entering a special room where you must kill eight waves of enemies.

* TheBerserker: Even moreso than Tainted Samson, if you can believe it.

Tarnished Isaac, just like his Tainted counterpart, has only 8 item slots to use. In exchange for his cycling item pedestals, Tarnished Isaac starts with a Blighted Die, which allows him to turn one of his items into a choice of two of the same quality and item pool after 6 charges or via touching an item pedestal not spawned by it. The Blighted Die can be used when it's not fully charged, but it only spawns 1 item pedestal and removes a red heart container (or deals 2 hearts of damage to you if you don't have any). Tarnished Isaac is unlocked by beating Delirium as Tainted Isaac.\\

* Catch22Dilemma: Tarnished Magdalene can often be caught in a Catch-22 in regards to her health mechanics. She needs red hearts to stop her from bleeding out, but the only way to get enough red hearts is to use Cardiac Arrest and make the bleeding worse.
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: While bleeding, Magdalene leaves a trail of blood. Prior to Wave 4, she constantly bled out of all of her red hearts. As of Wave 4, she only bleeds after taking damage or using Cardiac Arrest but the more damage she takes the faster and longer she bleeds. To make matters worse, unlike Tainted Magdalene, getting hurt by enemies ''will'' cause you to lose Devil/Angel Deal chances.

* TraumaticHaircut: Similar to Tainted Magdalene, but ''even worse''. Also, her hair is covered in blood.

An even more glitched-out and corrupted version of Eden. They always start with base Isaac stats, a random item, the D8, and their pocket active, Debug. Not that it matters, since every time you enter a new room, all of your stats and items, barring the latter two, are randomized. What's more, getting hit by enemies can transform them into Glitched Gapers, which can spread across enemies until it gets out of control. Their pocket active, Debug, allows you to invoke the rerolling effect at the cost of two charges, and when fully charged, allows you to "debug" an item you pick up to lock it to your character and keep it from rerolling. They're unlocked by beating the first floor boss in under a minute as Tainted Eden, then carrying the Glitched Photo the the Strange Door in the Depths.

* FacialHorror: By default, their face is an open gape with blank eyes; evidently, being a GlitchEntity is slowly mutilating him overtime.
* GlitchEntity: Tarnished Eden plays this up even further than Tainted Eden. Their unlock quest is very clearly about breaking the game and causing it to go haywire. Tarnished Eden themselves is extremely unstable, and even ''interacting'' with enemies has a chance of causing them to transform into a Glitched Gaper, further corrupting things. Their "voice" is also little more than garbled nightmares, with Isaac's damage and death grunts being heavily glitched to the point of being barely recognizable.

The Lost, now covered in soot and dust from his time in the attic. Tarnished Lost has all the same upsides and downsides as The Lost but can only encounter items with "offensive" or "nolostbr" tags, the latter of which contains items that are completely worthless for him. Tarnished Lost starts with Divine Remnants as his pocket item, which provides a Holy Mantle shield while fully charged but loses all charge upon taking damage. When used in a room with items, the items are rerolled and are not taken from the "nolostbr" pool. When used in a room without items, rerolls all hearts into better pickups and upgrades the Divine Remnants, making its next reroll higher quality but increasing the charge time. It also upgrades when blocking damage. Finally, Tarnished Lost gains extra charges when clearing certain rooms, like bosses and challenge rooms. He is unlocked by leaving Tainted Lost's Holy Card in the starting room and clearing the first floor boss, then collecting 6 Mantle Shards and entering a Bedroom.\\

The Keeper has fully embraced his transformation, now transformed into a gold statue akin to Ultra Greedier. He's now even more reliant on money compared to his counterparts, as it now equals the amount of health he has. Every hit removes up to twenty coins, and when he gets hit at zero coins, he dies. Not helping matters is that he can no longer pick up any items or collectibles, [[TheMagicTouch as they now transform into money when he touches them]]. Shop items and [[DealWithTheDevil devil deals]] are the only items he can grab. His pocket active, Turnover, mitigates that limitation by allowing the Keeper to create his own shops in any room -- at a price, of course. He's unlocked by obtaining the Keeper's Association Entrance Keycard from the secret room in the first floor of Greedier Mode as Tainted Keeper and keeping it renewed until you beat Ultra Greedier.

* DevelopersForesight: His unique mechanics required that some items needed to be reworked:

** Deep Pockets lets you store up to 999 coins as usual, but to prevent it from transforming Tarnished Keeper into a StoneWall, getting hit with over 100 coins in pocket will make you drop 60% of your coins!
** Greed's Gullet normally grants more health based on your coin amount. Since Tarnished Keeper already has that mechanic, the item instead grants a unique coin mantle for every 25 coins picked up. Similarly, grabbing eternal hearts grants the same effect, along with a few flies.

** The Wafer and Cancer[[note]]The Zodiac item, not the trinket[[/note]] halve the amount of coins you lose when hit.

** Any pickups or item pedestals he touches converts into a bunch of coins, with the amount given based on their average shop price/rarity/quality.

** Interacting with any of the beggars will have them turn to solid gold, after which they can be bombed for more coins.

* ObviousRulePatch: Originally it was possible to get unlimited free healing as Tarnished Isaac by emptying an item pool, causing you to spawn Breakfast with each reroll. To combat this, the team added an item called Blight, which does nothing except spawn in place of Breakfast when you reroll an HP up into an empty pool with Blighted Die.

Tarnished Magdalene starts with 3 red hearts and Cardiac Arrest, an item that fires a powerful projectile that causes enemies hit to drop 5 temporary half red hearts but causes her to bleed from her red hearts. Picking up red hearts while your health bar is full grants you a temporary damage boost. She's unlocked by using Tainted Magdalene's Yum Heart in the first floor Sacrifice Room to transform it into the [[CursedItem Bleeding Heart]], then beating It Lives.\\

* DiscardAndDraw: In comparison to Tainted Magdalene, she loses the Yum Heart, double HP recovery, and {{Killer Bear Hug}}s in exchange for Cardiac Arrest, a powerful item that causes enemies it damages to drop tons of hearts.
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Prior to Wave 4, she constantly bled out of all of her red hearts. To make matters worse, unlike Tainted Magdalene, getting hurt by enemies ''will'' cause you to lose Devil/Angel Deal chances.
* SlasherSmile: Sprouts one of these in her pre-floor/boss image, characterizing her as being [[AxCrazy more than happy to slaughter all in her path]].
* TorsoWithAView: If you look closely at her ingame sprites, she appears to have a hole in her chest, complete with an exposed ribcage.

* GrievousHarmWithABody: Putting a familiar that contributes to the Conjoined transformation turns it into a Throwing Bag turns it into a Bloody Bag, which causes it to create bloody creep on contact.

[[folder:Tarnish Lost]]

The Lost, now covered in soot and dust from his time in the attic. Tarnished Lost has all the same upsides and downsides as The Lost but can only encounter items with "offensive" or "nolostbr" tags, the latter of which contains items that are completely worthless for him. Tarnished Lost starts with Divine Remnants as his pocket item, which provides a Holy Mantle shield while fully charged but loses all charge upon taking damage. When used in a room with items, the items are rerolled and are not taken from the "nolostbr" pool. When used in a room without items, rerolls all hearts into better pickups and upgrades the Divine Remnants, making its next reroll higher quality but increasing the charge time. It also upgrades when blocking damage. Finally, Tarnished Lost gains extra charges when clearing certain rooms, like bosses and challenge rooms. He is unlocked by leaving Tainted Lost's Holy Card in the starting room and clearing the first floor boss, then collecting 6 Mantle Shards and entering a Bedroom.

* MixAndMatchWeapons: Divine Remnants is essentially Tarnished Lost's version of the Holy Mantle, the Eternal D6, and (once upgraded) the Sacred Orb all rolled into one item.

* PowerUpLetdown: By design, Tarnished Lost will encounter lots of totally useless items like flight and HP ups, forcing you to use Divine Remnants offensively to actually get worthwhile stuff.

* VirtueIsWeakness: Accepting items from Angel Deals will heal Tarnished Judas's broken hearts, but this also comes at the cost of removing some of his shadow clones and thus reducing his firepower.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Is only limited to 8 items, just like Tainted Isaac. Unlike his counterpart, Tarnished Isaac lacks the extra choices and needs to strategically reroll useless items rather than just swapping them out.
* ObviousRulePatch: Originally it was possible to get unlimited free healing as Tarnished Isaac by emptying an item pool, causing you to spawn Breakfast with each reroll. To combat this, the team added an item called Blight, which does nothing except spawn in place of Breakfast when you reroll an HP up into an empty pool with Blighted Die.

* BodyHorror: While Tainted Isaac looked [[BrokenBird somewhat beaten up]], Tarnished Isaac is outright ''mutilated''. The same goes for his pocket item, Blighted Die, which is a D6... ''made out of rotten flesh''.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: Is only limited to 8 items, similar to Tainted Isaac.

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[[caption-width-right:144: LESS OPTIONS\\

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[[caption-width-right:144: ADRENALINE RUSH\\

* BodyHorror: If you look closely at her ingame sprites, she appears to have a hole in her chest, complete with an exposed ribcage.

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[[caption-width-right:144: [[MenDontCry COLD BLOOD]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:144: [[DealWithTheDevil SIN = POWER]]\\

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[[caption-width-right:144: [[BloodKnight BLOOD BRINGS HASTE]]\\

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[[caption-width-right:144: [[VideoGameRandomizer EXTREME]] [[GlitchEntity ENTROPY]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:144: [[MidasTouch MIDAS' CURSE]]]]

Tarnished Isaac, just like his Tainted counterpart, has only 8 item slots to use. In exchange for his cycling item pedestals, Tarnished Isaac starts with a Blighted Die, which allows him to turn one of his items into a choice of two of the same quality and item pool after 6 charges or via touching an item pedestal not spawned by it. The Blighted Die can be used when it's not fully charged, but it only spawns 1 item pedestal and removes a red heart container (or deals 2 hearts of damage to you if you don't have any). Tarnished Isaac is unlocked by beating Delirium as Tainted Isaac.

Tarnished Magdalene starts with 3 red hearts and Cardiac Arrest, an item that fires a powerful projectile that causes enemies hit to drop 5 temporary half red hearts but causes her to bleed from her red hearts. Picking up red hearts while your health bar is full grants you a temporary damage boost. She's unlocked by using Tainted Magdalene's Yum Heart in the first floor Sacrifice Room to transform it into the [[CursedItem Bleeding Heart]], then beating It Lives.

His Birthright makes it so he has to put 3 items in his bag to make a new one, allowing you to create more powerful bags.

His Birthright gives him 1 extra shadow, gaining 1 more every transformation.

His Birthright increases the Slaughter Bar's multiplier to x3, causes the Slaughter Bar to fill to half when Immortal Rage ends, and allows Tarnished Samson to build a sixth tier of the Slaughter Bar while raging.

His Birthright effect adds a restock machine to every fully upgraded shop.

** There's Options and More Options, which add an additional item choice to the boss room or item room, instead reduce the amount of times you need to pay to fully upgrade a shop in that room down to three easy payments of five coins.

A version of Samson even more focused on his rage and super strength. Instead of firing tears, Samson now unleashes a flurry of melee-ranged punches, and while the fire button is held down, also charges a meter that, when filled, causes Tarnished Samson to slam the ground, dealing damage to nearby enemies as well as causing debris to fall from the ceiling. Tarnished Samson's playstyle revolves around quick and reckless combat to increase his movement and attack speed, and entering Immortal Rage to grow even more powerful at the cost of potentially dying if Samson is unable to deal enough damage before his rage ends. Tarnished Samson begins with Killer Instinct in his pocket item slot, which has two context-sensitive uses: Normally, it causes Tarnished Samson to charge forward, making him invincible temporarily and damaging enemies he charges through. If used while he's holding debris, Tarnished Samson will smash it over his head to immediately enter Immortal Rage. He's unlocked by obtaining Delilah's Razor as Tainted Samson and completing three Challenge Rooms, then entering a special room where you must kill eight waves of enemies.

* FacialHorror: Let's see... MouthStitchedShut? Yup... [[EyeScream Missing eyes?]] Yup. Those Philistines ''clearly'' showed no mercy.

Tarnished Isaac, just like his Tainted counterpart, has only 8 item slots to use. In exchange for his cycling item pedestals, Tarnished Isaac starts with a Blighted Die, which allows him to turn one of his items into a choice of two of the same quality and item pool after 6 charges or via touching an item pedestal not spawned by it. The Blighted Die can be used when it's not fully charged, but it only spawns 1 item pedestal and removes a red heart container (or deals 2 hearts of damage to you if you don't have any).

Tarnished Magdalene starts with 3 red hearts and Cardiac Arrest, an item that fires a powerful projectile that causes enemies hit to drop 5 temporary half red hearts but causes her to bleed from her red hearts. Picking up red hearts while your health bar is full grants you a temporary damage boost.

Cain with a CoolMask covering half of his face instead of an EyepatchOfPower, he can't fire tears at all. Instead, he swings and throws a bag filled with rocks as a weapon, which can be retrieved using his active item. When picking up an item, he can choose to put it in his bag instead. After you put 2 items in a bag, he gains a new one, gaining effects based on what was put in it.

Judas having been corrupted even further by darkness. He starts with a weaker damage multiplier than any other character, but makes up for this by controlling 3 shadowy clones of himself, which get stronger when they're further away from him. He pays for Devil Deals by gaining broken hearts instead of paying heart containers, gaining more shadow clones when surpassing certain thresholds, while Angel Deals remove them. He also takes 1 full heart every time he takes a hit regardless of chapter, and starts with Duality and Descend, a pocket item that allows him to trade places with the shadow that's farthest away from him, with the clones dealing damage when intersecting.

A version of Samson even more focused on his rage and super strength. Instead of firing tears, Samson now unleashes a flurry of melee-ranged punches, and while the fire button is held down, also charges a meter that, when filled, causes Tarnished Samson to slam the ground, dealing damage to nearby enemies as well as causing debris to fall from the ceiling. Tarnished Samson's playstyle revolves around quick and reckless combat to increase his movement and attack speed, and entering Immortal Rage to grow even more powerful at the cost of potentially dying if Samson is unable to deal enough damage before his rage ends. Tarnished Samson begins with Killer Instinct in his pocket item slot, which has two context-sensitive uses: Normally, it causes Tarnished Samson to charge forward, making him invincible temporarily and damaging enemies he charges through. If used while he's holding debris, Tarnished Samson will smash it over his head to immediately enter Immortal Rage.

An even more glitched-out and corrupted version of Eden. They always start with base Isaac stats, a random item, the D8, and their pocket active, Debug. Not that it matters, since every time you enter a new room, all of your stats and items, barring the latter two, are randomized. What's more, getting hit by enemies can transform them into Glitched Gapers, which can spread across enemies until it gets out of control.

Their pocket active, Debug, allows you to invoke the rerolling effect at the cost of two charges, and when fully charged, allows you to "debug" an item you pick up to lock it to your character and keep it from rerolling.
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The Keeper has fully embraced his transformation, now transformed into a gold statue akin to Ultra Greedier. He's now even more reliant on money compared to his counterparts, as it now equals the amount of health he has. Every hit removes up to twenty coins, and when he gets hit at zero coins, he dies.

Not helping matters is that he can no longer pick up any items or collectibles, [[TheMagicTouch as they now transform into money when he touches them]]. Shop items and [[DealWithTheDevil devil deals]] are the only items he can grab. His pocket active, Turnover, mitigates that limitation by allowing the Keeper to create his own shops in any room — at a price, of course.
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** The Store Credit trinket simply grants a free use of Turnover, equalling to one free shop upgrade, rather than making one item free.

* FacialHorror: Let's see... MouthSewnShut? Yup... [[EyeScream Missing eyes?]] Yup. Those Philistines ''clearly'' showed no mercy.

* RapunzelHair: He's got very messy hairdo that's pretty long, and it flows up when Immortal Rage is active.

* {{Determinator}}: While Immoral Rage is active, Tarnished Samson is, well, ''immortal''. If he's able to deal enough damage while raging, he'll continue to live even after the rage ends.

[[folder:Tarnished Eden]]
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[[caption-width-right:144: [[VideoGameRandomizer EXTREME]] [[GlitchEntity ENTROPY]]]]
An even more glitched-out and corrupted version of Eden. They always start with base Isaac stats, a random item, the D8, and their pocket active, Debug. Not that it matters, since every time you enter a new room, all of your stats and items, barring the latter two, are randomized. What's more, getting hit by enemies can transform them into Glitched Gapers, which can spread across enemies until it gets out of control.

Their pocket active, Debug, allows you to invoke the rerolling effect at the cost of two charges, and when fully charged, allows you to "debug" an item you pick up to lock it to your character and keep it from rerolling.
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Their Birthright effect permanently charms the Glitched Gapers they spawn, and allows their tears to have a chance of causing the transformation.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Due to the extreme randomness of the character, Tarnished Eden has several features to help mitigate those effects, and allow some semblance of control over the chaos:
** Using a fully charged Debug when picking up an item, whether active or passive, gives the item immunity to the reroll effect, allowing Eden to keep practical or powerful items for the rest of the run.
** Similarly, Debug allows you to initiate the rerolling effect at the cost of two charges, allowing you to fish for a better loadout when things are tough.
** Items will prioritize being rerolled into others of the same quality, so finding a high quality item is not a lost cause. They also will not reroll into useless items, such as those that simply give you items.
** What's more, they will also reroll based on the item pools you find them in, meaning, as an example, if you have several treasure room items and one planetarium item, then there is a chance those items can also reroll into planetarium ones.
* FacialHorror: By default, their face is an open gape with blank eyes; evidently, being a GlitchEntity is slowly mutilating him overtime.
* GlitchEntity: Tarnished Eden plays this up even further than Tainted Eden. Their unlock quest is very clearly about breaking the game and causing it to go haywire. Tarnished Eden themselves is extremely unstable, and even ''interacting'' with enemies has a chance of causing them to transform into a Glitched Gaper, further corrupting things. Their "voice" is also little more than garbled nightmares, with Isaac's damage and death grunts being heavily glitched to the point of being barely recognizable.
* GoodCounterpart: Tarnished Eden draws even more similarities to Delirium than Tainted Eden does, with a white, melting appearance, constant changing, and even warping the background with static.
* {{Nerf}}: Eden used to start with a D8 active item that's immune to rerolling, but has since been replace with a one-time D8 pocket item, only allowing rerolling of stats once.
* OminousVisualGlitch: Unlike Tainted Eden, Tarnished Eden displays this constantly; their default appearance is incredibly corrupted, and use of Debug is heralded by the background freaking out and switching to something else.

[[folder:Tarnished Keeper]]
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[[caption-width-right:144: [[MidasTouch MIDAS' CURSE]]]]
The Keeper has fully embraced his transformation, now transformed into a gold statue akin to Ultra Greedier. He's now even more reliant on money compared to his counterparts, as it now equals the amount of health he has. Every hit removes up to twenty coins, and when he gets hit at zero coins, he dies.

Not helping matters is that he can no longer pick up any items or collectibles, [[TheMagicTouch as they now transform into money when he touches them]]. Shop items and [[DealWithTheDevil devil deals]] are the only items he can grab. His pocket active, Turnover, mitigates that limitation by allowing the Keeper to create his own shops in any room — at a price, of course.

His Birthright effect adds a restock machine to every fully upgraded shop.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Self-damage caused by certain actives, or by touching the curse room door, only makes you lose five coins instead of the normal twenty.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Even more than Tainted Keeper. The only way for Tarnished Keeper to get ''anything'', items and pickups alike, is to buy it. Everything else just turns into more money for the shops. And since money also equals your health, you are constantly gambling your life away in order to pay the price.

** While active items are not immune to the rerolling effect, the D8 you start with is. This gives you a chance to change your stats in case you end up with a bad stat roll in a dificult room.

* GlitchEntity: Tarnished Eden plays this up even further than Tainted Eden. Their unlock quest is very clearly about breaking the game and causing it to go haywire. Tarnished Eden themself is extremely unstable, and even ''interacting'' with enemies has a chance of causing them to transform into a Glitched Gaper, further corrupting things. Their "voice" is also little more than garbled nightmares, with Isaac's damage and death grunts being heavily glitched to the point of being barely recognizable.
* GoodCounterpart: Tarnished Eden draws even more similarities to Delirium than Tainted Eden does, with a white, melting appearance, constant changing, and even warping the background with static.

Not helping matters is that he can no longer pick up any items or collectibles, [[TheMagicTouch as they now transform into money when he touches them]]. Shop items and devil deals are the only items he can grab. His pocket active, Turnover, mitigates that limitation by allowing the Keeper to create his own shops in any room — at a price, of course.

** Similar to Tainted Cain, Tarnished Keeper can't grab items, as they are automatically converted to coins. The same applies for collectibles. He's completely reliant on shops and devil deals for getting anything that isn't money.

** The inability to grab all pickups and items normally prevents him from grabbing a particularly good item or trinket that spawns; he has to buy it all in either a shop or via Turnover.

Not helping matters is that he can no longer pick up any items or collectibles, [[TheMagicTouch as they now transform into money when he touches them]]. Shop items are the only items he can grab. His pocket active, Turnover, mitigates that limitation by allowing the Keeper to create his own shops in any room — at a price, of course.

* GlitchEntity: Tarnished Eden plays this up even further than Tainted Eden. Their unlock quest is very clearly about breaking the game and causing it to go haywire. Tarnished Eden themself is extremely unstable, and even ''interacting'' with enemies has a chance of causing them to transform into a glitched gaper, further corrupting things. Their "voice" is also little more than garbled nightmares, with Isaac's damage and death grunts being heavily glitched to the point of being barely recognizable.

* GlitchEntity: Tarnished Eden plays this up even further than Tainted Eden. Their unlock quest is very clearly about breaking the game and causing it to go haywire. Tarnished Eden themself is extremely unstable, and even ''interacting'' with enemies has a chance of causing them to transform into a glitched gaper, further corrupting things.

[[{{Yandere}} UNCONTROLLABLE LOVE]]]]