Tempers
Overview
Tempers are an aspect of Soulframe's Weapons; unique modifiers, each of which grants specific augmented properties to the Weapon.
To browse all Tempers, see the Index of Tempers.
Acquiring Tempers
Tempers are rolled randomly when a Weapon is first dropped, purchased or Crafted. The number of Tempers that can appear on a Weapon are determined by its Craftwork; an aspect which determines its quality, represented by six tiers:
- Stock (0-1 Tempers)
- Military (1-3 Tempers)
- Officer (2-4 Tempers)
- Noble (3-5 Tempers)
- Sovereign (4-6 Tempers)
- Legendary (5-8 Tempers)
Numbers of Tempers have varied during Preludes 15, and may be bugged, such as Legendaries dropping with fewer than 5 Tempers. Feel free to update if you have any further information!
Double-Stacked Tempers
Up to Two of the same Temper may be rolled on a Weapon, providing twice the effect, and taking two Temper slots. This is known as a Double-Stacked Temper, indicated by a flashing effect on its frame (not to be confused with the frame design, which indicates the Temper's associated Origin).
A doubled Temper is also indicated via the 
Double-stack Icon in the more detailed Tempers tab of the Weapon's tooltip. Multiple different Tempers may be Double-Stacked on the same Weapon.
Refining
A Weapon can be Refined to a higher Craftwork using Chordstones. This will always grant at least 2 Tempers if it does not exceed the Temper limit of the Craftwork being upgraded into. Refining a Weapon to Legendary will always grant 8 Tempers, to ensure the maximum amount is reached.
See Refining for more information on this system.
Categories
Many Tempers will appear only on a specific range of Weapons, based on two criteria; Weapon Type and Origin.
Some Tempers may have both a specific Weapon Type and Origin; such as
Dual Cast, which will only appear on Feykin Staves. Other Tempers, such as
Sullying Force, are truly Universal and can roll on any Weapon in Soulframe.
Weapon Type
Some Tempers are exclusive to a Weapon Type (not necessarily a Combat Art) - either Melee, Bow or Magick.
- Melee Tempers will appear only on Melee Weapons. This includes Heavy Weapons, Long Blades, Polearms, Shields and Short Blades.
- Bow Tempers will appear only on Bows.
- Magick Tempers will appear only on Magick Weapons. This includes both Staves and Wrist Casters.
There are notably no Flyblade-specific Tempers, making them the only Combat Art not present within Weapon-specific Tempers.
Tempers by Weapon Type
Origin
Many Tempers are exclusive to a specific Weapon Origin, as indicated by the Frame around the Temper itself:
Tempers by Origin
Bounding Swipe • 
Cowp • 
Follow Up • 
Fortified • 
From Above • 
Heightened Parry • Sullying Force • 
Swooning Blow • 
Unencumbered • 
Venger
Trivia
- Upon their initial release in Preludes 14.5, Tempers only appeared on
Orst-III. They were expanded to the rest of the Arsenal in Preludes 15.
- Orst-III originally had the possibility to roll Bounding Swipe,
Breakneck, 
Fleet Fling, 
Full Force, 
Galvanic Strike, 
Rejoinder, Sullying Force, Swooning Blow, and Venger.
- Orst-III originally had the possibility to roll
Index of Tempers
