Eden

Eden is a character unlocked by completing Womb for the first time. Uniquely, they are only playable by spending Eden Tokens, which are awarded every time Mom's Heart, It Lives!, Ultra Greed, or The Beast is defeated.

Each time a game is started as Eden, one token is spent and a new Eden is randomly generated based on the seed: They will have a random hairstyle, base stats, active item, passive item, and either a trinket, pill, or card/rune.

Eden's stats are centered around Issac's and are randomized within a set range. They will spawn with a combination of Red Heart containers and Soul Hearts.

For details regarding the exact generation of an Eden Run, see Eden Generation.

Notes

Holding R to reset doesn't work with Eden, and every time you start a new run, you use up one Eden token.
- After starting a run and transforming into another character (using items like Ankh or Clicker), holding R to reset will work and start a new run as Eden, even if you don't have tokens.
- Holding R to reset will consume an Eden Token and start a new run.
Eden can start with most items, including The Negative or The Polaroid if unlocked.
- Key Piece 1, Key Piece 2, Broken Shovel, Broken Shovel and Mom's Shovel cannot be granted.
- A new noeden item tag has been introduced, which labels items that Eden cannot start with. These also include Knife Piece 1, Knife Piece 2, Dogma, Dad's Note, Recall and Hold.
Eden Tokens are not awarded for killing Mom's Heart or It Lives in The Void.
It is possible to achieve an ending as Eden while not getting another token if the player defeats Mom and earns a Void Portal, then defeats Delirium. This will count as a victory, but no Eden Token will be earned. This can also be achieved by using Sacrifice Rooms to teleport to the Dark Room.

Item Interactions

Birthright: Spawns 3 random items from random item pools. Only one can be taken.
Genesis: If Eden uses Genesis it will reroll the character as if it was a new run (new starting items, new hairstyle and new stats).
Glowing Hourglass: If Eden starts with this item and immediately uses it in the starting room, the room will be reset, and all starting items and trinkets removed.
- Instead of the starting room being reset, Eden is taken to the starting room of Home. If used again in this room without having entered any other rooms, the room will be reset, and all starting items and trinkets removed except Glowing Hourglass.

Unlockable Achievements

Undefined - Complete the Boss Rush as Eden.

Glitch Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as Eden.

Book of Secrets - Defeat Satan as Eden.

Blank Card - Defeat Isaac as Eden.

Mystery Sack - Defeat The Lamb as Eden.

Mysterious Paper - Defeat ??? as Eden.

GB Bug - Defeat Ultra Greed as Eden.

Metronome - Defeat Ultra Greedier as Eden.

Eden's Blessing - Defeat Hush as Eden.

Yellow Baby - Defeat Mega Satan as Eden.

Eden's Soul - Defeat Delirium as Eden.

'M - Defeat Mother as Eden.

Everything Jar - Defeat The Beast as Eden.

The Capricious - Use Red Key (etc.) to open the hidden closet in Home as Eden.

Cracked Baby - Earn all Hard mode Completion Marks as Eden.

Gallery

Eden's default hairstyle
Shaved head with a bang
A bowl cut
A mohawk
Lucas from Mother 3
Marzipan from Homestar Runner
Frisk from Undertale
Azazel's pre-Repentance hairstyle
Eve's hairstyle
Lazarus's hairstyle
Lilith's hairstyle
Magdalene's hairstyle
Samson's hairstyle
A handlebar mustache
Hair resembling a beanie cap with cat ears
A flattop
Princess Leia from Star Wars
A bad comb-over
Elsa from Frozen
An English mustache
"Old Man" Keeper's hairstyle
A Japanese-style pompadour
An afro
A hi-top fade
A bob cut
A broccoli haircut
Heihachi from Tekken
Eden's transition screen portrait.
The spawn floor when playing Eden.
Eden's locked character icon.

Gallery

The following hairstyles were removed and updated for Repentance.

Trivia

In the book of Genesis, the Garden of Eden was the place where Adam and Eve lived before consuming the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and thus being cast out by God.
According to Edmund, Eden is non-binary. A quote from Edmund says “Eden is the fabled “mystery man” I’ve talked about in interviews before I had a fully realized idea of what they would become… see Eden isn’t a man, nor are they a woman.. they just are.“
Eden could represent Isaac's rebirth as a new person, which explains why their stats and items are always random.
Because of how Eden's stats work, Eden can start with a luck stat containing values in lower decimal places.
- When actually used in most formulas, luck is rounded towards zero. This means Eden's effective starting luck is generally equivalent to 0.
- Playing as Eden is the only way to have non-integer luck.
Eden's starting stats are listed as "?" on the character selection screen.
Eden's locked character icon is the Locked Chest from ending 1.
- Eden (and Tainted Eden) is the only character who can become locked again, returning to their locked character icon if the player runs out of tokens.
During development, Edmund asked fans to contribute hairstyles for Eden. [1]
On the release of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Eden had 5 hairstyles.
- 5 more were added in Booster Pack #1, and 25 more were added in Booster Pack #3 for Afterbirth+, totalling 40 hairstyles.
- 14 more were added in Repentance+, totalling 54 hairstyles.
Some of Eden's hairstyles added in the Booster Packs resemble the hairstyles of other playable characters, being Azazel, Eve, Lazarus, Lilith, Magdalene, and Samson.
- All of these hairstyles, except Azazel's, were changed in the V1.7.9b update to Repentance to reflect the updated hairstyles of each associated character.
- One of Eden's hairstyles references the pre-release appearance of Keeper.
Some of Eden's other hairstyles are pop-culture references to characters such as Elsa from Frozen, Princess Leia from Star Wars, Marzipan from Homestar Runner, Lucas from Mother 3, and Frisk from Undertale.