All Pacts in Soulframe and Their Skills

Every published Pact at a glance — all three Arcanics, Virtue focus, and unlock conditions in one table. This page is the data sheet. If you want help deciding which Pact to pick, that is a different question — the Pact selection guide walks that decision.

Quick answer — every pact at a glance

A Pact is Soulframe's answer to a class: it grants a fixed kit of three Arcanics (active abilities, one per Virtue slot) and two unique passives, and it is the only part of your build that cannot be hot-swapped in a loadout. Soulframe has 12 published pacts in Preludes 15: 3 starting pacts, 6 special pacts, and 3 Wyld cosmetic variants.

• How many pacts are in Soulframe? 12 published — nine core kits plus three Wyld variants that reuse the starter kits with unique cosmetics.
• Is every pact ranked anywhere? Yes — the editorial tier list (S+ through B) lives on the /pacts hub. This page deliberately stays ranking-free: it is the dataset the rankings are built on.
• Can I change pacts later? Yes, nothing is permanent. Once you reach Tuvalkane Bond 3 in Nightfold, you can craft and swap pacts there.

Where to go instead of this page: the Pact selection guide covers the decision layer — which Pact fits your starter weapon, your group role, and your craft budget. The /pacts hub carries the tier table and every pact detail page. This page is the reference layer: what exists, what each kit does, and how it unlocks. Nothing here is ranked, recommended, or tiered — every judgment call lives in those two places, which keeps the tables below trustworthy as pure reference.

All pacts skill table (Preludes 15)

The complete data sheet. Arcanics are listed in Virtue slot order — Courage · Spirit · Grace — and every row is synced from the site catalog, last verified against Preludes 15 on 2026-07-26. Tap a Pact name for its detail page: full skill text, passives, fragments, and sample builds.

Unlock column, decoded:

• Character creation — the three starters are available from the first minute, and can also be purchased from your Faction NPC after switching Factions.
• Main story quest — the catalog records both Garren Rood and Orengall as main-story unlocks; site guides place Garren Rood after The Torment Stag and Orengall inside The Shewolf Snared. Quest-step names are community-synced — verify in your client.
• Fable clears — Bromius comes from The Waste Bear Fable; Duelo from The Wreck of Mestra Carmo.
• Faction + craft — Ode Tempest and Mora's Hand recipe unlocks sit behind high Faction rank, then require a significant Tuvalkane craft grind.
• Founders Pack — the Wyld variants ship identical skill kits to their base Pacts; the difference is cosmetic.

Data provenance: skill names, passives, Virtue tags, difficulty ratings, and unlock text all come from the site catalog as verified against Preludes 15 (2026-07-26). The same catalog feeds the /pacts hub, every Pact detail page, and the build filters, so what you read here matches what those pages say. When a hotfix renames or reworks an Arcanic, the Pact detail pages update first; this overview follows on the next catalog sync.

How the three Arcanic slots work

Each Pact exposes one Arcanic per Virtue slot, in a fixed Courage → Spirit → Grace order:

Two rules worth knowing before you read the table as a build plan:

1. Pact = ability pool, not a gear lock. Your Pact decides which three Arcanics you can bring; weapons and armour stay freely swappable regardless of Pact.
2. Cross-Virtue equipping is allowed but scales with your stats. You can slot Arcanics from other Virtues, but their numbers follow your actual Virtue totals — and since Preludes 15, Virtue respec is free per loadout, so the real constraint is your Pact kit, not your points.

Pact categories — starting, special, and Wyld

Starting pacts (3). Tethren, Oscelda, and Sirin are the day-one picks at character creation. Kits are complete from the start — no fragments, no crafts, no Faction rank. If you regret the pick, the same three can be bought back from your Faction NPC later.

Special pacts (6). The unlockable half of the roster, spanning mid-game quests (Garren Rood, Orengall), Omen Beast Fables (Bromius, Duelo), and endgame Faction grinds (Ode Tempest, Mora's Hand). The difficulty spread is wide: Garren Rood and Orengall are among the easier specials to obtain, while the two Courage craft pacts demand long Faction and material investment.

Wyld variants (3). Founders Pack exclusives that reuse the starter kits exactly — same Arcanics, same passives, unique cosmetics. They count toward the 12 published pacts but add no new skills.

P15 rename warning: several passive Pact Arts were renamed in Preludes 15 (Forestall, Stalwart, Glimmer, Redoubt among them). If your loadout notes still use old skill names, cross-check Pact Arts P15 before you respec.

Swapping pacts — what actually changes

What swapping does not touch: weapons, armour, and loadouts stay exactly as they are — a Pact only replaces your three-Arcanic ability pool and its two passives. Virtue points are free to re-allocate per loadout since Preludes 15, so even stat scaling is no longer a respec cost.

What swapping costs: the craft itself at Tuvalkane — Bond 3 is required for non-starter pact crafting — plus the unlock condition of the target Pact if you have not cleared it yet: a Fable for Bromius or Duelo, a quest beat for Garren Rood or Orengall, high Faction rank for Ode Tempest and Mora's Hand. The starters can simply be purchased from your Faction NPC after a Faction switch, which makes bouncing back to a starter kit the cheapest reset in the game. In short: treat your first Pact as a tutorial commitment, not a marriage — by the time you have opinions worth acting on, you can afford the swap.

Next steps

• Deciding which Pact to pick? The Pact selection guide walks the whole decision — starter Virtue matching, editorial tiers, and craft budgets.
• Want every pact ranked? The /pacts hub carries the S+ through B tier table plus each Pact's detail page.
• Planning the swap? The full skill table above links every Pact detail page — skill text, fragments, and sample builds live there.