a little clarification on tempering

[Enkidoh]

As far as I am aware, there is no one official term used to describe the brainwashing procedure that Primals use to create mindless followers. It's been referred to as tempering by default as that was the term used to describe Ifrit's brainwashing of the amal'jaa (and spoken prisoners they bring to Ifrit) that has been used since 1.0... and even the development team themselves used this term for other Primals and beast tribes as well (specifically, the 'purple' sylphs who were corrupted by Ramuh).

However, this seems to have occurred simply because Ifrit was the very first Primal shown so it makes sense that the term used for Ifrit's brainwashing would be used as a placeholder term for all Primals' brainwashing, lately it seems that each Primal and beast tribe indeed uses it's own term to describe the brainwashing process, which, as tempering would suggest with Ifrit, carries a certain elemental affinity with that Primal (for instance, those corrupted by Leviathan are 'drowned').

Either way, no one term seems to exist for this - the FF Wiki uses the term 'enthrall' which is an accurate way of looking at it. In any event, if there is a specific term used for it, it hasn't been mentioned yet in game, so really calling it 'tempering' or 'enthralling' is a good a term as any at this time.