Warframe Ephemera: How To Use Ephemera Cosmetics (2025)

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The Warframe Ephemera cosmetics allow players to customise their characters even more with special visual effects, giving them another way to distinguish themselves from other players. Warframe is a free-to-play third-person shooter where players wear special combat suits called Warframes, which have tonnes of options for customisation. If you need to know how the Warframe Ephermera cosmetics work, and how to acquire them, we've got you covered.

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Warframe Ephemera: What Are Ephemera?

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A Warframe Ephemera is a type of cosmetic item that can be equipped to your Warframes and Operators. They give you special visual effects that emanate from your character's body and create a trail when you move, giving you an extra form of customisation to create your unique character. There are many Ephemeras in the game, and they can be obtained a few ways, ranging from crafting them yourself, to buying them, and earning them from special events. It's worth noting that they cannot be traded with other players though.

To use and equip them, you will need to go to the Arsenal page which can be accessed from your Orbiter. Navigate to the Appearance tab on this page, and then locate the Attachments option. From here there will be a section for your Ephemera cosmetics where you can select and equip them, but if you haven't acquired any of these cosmetics yet, then the option won't appear.

Warframe Ephemera List

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Below is the list of all the current Ephemera's in the game. We'll list the name and the description of it, but note that some of these are from special events in the game's past and can no longer be accessed at all.

  • Bleeding Body - A grisly blood effect emanates from your Warframe
  • Smoking Body - The Warframe body emits smoke
  • Conquera - Wear the Ribbon Ephemera as a symbol of support in the Quest to conquer cancer
  • Crania - Surround yourself with the echoes of the fallen - earned on the Steel Path
  • Eidolon - Move as the Eidolons and burn the ground coldly with footsteps of shimmering Void energy
  • Fae Path - Your Warframe leaves a trail of fireflies and forest leaves in its wake
  • Festering - Persistent sores and bubbles burst with every move
  • Ki'Teer - Spread the influence of the System's greatest trader wherever you go
  • Lotus - Your Warframe leaves a trail of fragrant petals in its wake
  • Obsidian - A next-generation Ephemera
  • Baurahn Prime - Coiling, hissing, the spirits of flame ride with their kin
  • Catena Prime - Levitating crystals create a web of luminous connections; Gara Prime's signature Ephemera
  • Corposant Prime - Luminous plasma leaps off surfaces in your presence
  • Sanguinax Prime - Spread Garuda Prime's wings of slaughter with this flowing Ephemera
  • Protovyre - An evolving Ephemera that draws upon Sentient technology, letting you upgrade to the Protovyre Emergent and Protovyre Apex
  • Spring Step - Mark the path to a new season with a trail of decorative eggs
  • Naberus - A warrior walks, alone in crowds, companion to moon and mist and bat, with a vision grim the mind enshrouds
  • Nyctalus - Spread the membranous wings of night with this haunting Ephemera
  • Spinneret - A rogue slinks, along a line, deadly patience its tactic, in sparkling moonlight eyes shine, ruthless, skulking arachnid
  • Dog Days - Soak off with this Dog Days Ephemera
  • Eros Wings - Wings to lift your love starward
  • Frostfall - Become the heart of the winter, beneath a cloud of falling snow
  • Peach Blossom - Surround your Warframe with softly falling peach blossoms, to celebrate the Lunar Renewal
  • Gloriana - An icily imperious Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Hypatia - A radiant Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Kyruna - A striking Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Lucretia - Hatch venomous plots in this Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Solena - A magnetically compelling Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Sybillina - Information flows like live current through this Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Zarina - A blazingly regal Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Sister of Parvos
  • Spore - Infested spores emanate from your Warframe
  • Blazing Step - The Warframe leaves flaming footprints in its wake
  • Freezing Step - The Warframe leaves icicles as footprints in its wake
  • Seeding Step - The Warframe leaves grassy footprints in its wake
  • Shocking Step - The Warframe leaves footprints with electricity in its wake
  • Tenebrous - Walk wreathed in Sentient unlight
  • Tennocon 2021 - Bestowed upon those who joined together in celebration at TennoCon 2021
  • Trio Orbit - Surround yourself with a trio of orbiting energy - earned on the Steel Path
  • Vengeful Charge - A shocking Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Vengeful Chill - An icy Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Vengeful Flame - A fiery Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Vengeful Pull - A magnetic Ephemera seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Vengeful Shockwave - An ephemera that echoes punishing impacts, seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Vengeful Toxin - An ephemera of toxic miasma seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Vengeful Trickster - The energy of the trickster Warframes is embodied in this colourful Ephemera, seized from a converted or vanquished Kuva Lich
  • Verv - Broadcast your presence with every move
  • Waveform - Sweet frequencies ripple through this Nightwave-themed Ephemera

That's all for the Warframe Ephemera cosmetics, and now you know what they are and how to equip them, along with a list of all the ones currently in the game.

Warframe Ephemera: How To Use Ephemera Cosmetics (2025)

FAQs

How do you use ephemera in Warframe? ›

To equip an Ephemera, go to the "Arsenal" page, then click on a Warframe's "Appearance" tab. The Ephemera can be equipped in the option "Attachments" under the section labeled as "Ephemera". The Ephemera section will not appear until at least one Ephemera has been obtained.

How does the protovyre ephemera work? ›

The Armor, Ephemera, and Syandana in their Apex form seem to change every time a player kills an enemy. This is purely a cosmetic.

What is the drop rate of ephemera Warframe? ›

They aren't particularly rare IMO, Lich / Sister ephemeras are 20% chance at spawn, and shadow stalker has 5% chance for smoking body ephemera BP. While 5% seems a bit low, over the course of all the stalker encounters I've had I have like over 10+ of these at this point.

How to unlock aspirus apex ephemera? ›

The Aspirus, Emergent, and Apex Ephemeras are part of event's Community Progress segment, where the total number of Volatile Motes collected across the event are tallied, unlocking each Ephemera for purchase after 30%, 60%, and 90% Community Progress has been reached respectively.

How do you use donated decorations in Warframe? ›

Once donated they can never be retrieved for use in your orbiter again. Referred to as Personal Decorations they can be accessed by pressing Esc → Decorations → Personal Decorations in the dojo. They require no contributions to build and are placed immediately.

How to unlock protovyre armor? ›

You will need to kill sentients, gain focus, and lastly gain relics or aya. All in all it's pretty easy but will take a little bit of time. You will get the emergent protovyre armor as the first unlock and the apex protovyre armor as the final unlock.

How to get electric ephemera in Warframe? ›

  1. Equip one of these frames: Banshee, Excalibur, Limbo, Nova, Valkyr, Volt.
  2. And mercy kill a kuva larvling with this warframe. ...
  3. You can change your warframe now.
  4. Kill or convert your lich by using the correct 3 requiems.
  5. Repeat, a lich has 20% chance to have an ephemera so might take a while.
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What is kuva ephemera? ›

Ephemera. Kuva Liches have a 20% chance to be created with an Ephemera equipped that corresponds to the Progenitor Warframe who created them. These Ephemeras can be equipped on Companions, Archwings, and Necramechs. Players will receive a Lich's Ephemera regardless of whether they Vanquish or Convert them.

What ephemera is valuable? ›

Some types of ephemera, such as bookplates, political buttons, paper currency, postage stamps, valentines, and early printed broadsides have been prized for years.

How do you get rid of ephemera? ›

What to do with your old ephemera? Honestly, most of it can be trashed. If it's personal ephemera then probably nobody but you really wanted it anyway, so it's okay to throw away. If it's vintage ephemera, you could always sell it on Etsy or give it to an artist friend.

How to tell if a Lich has ephemera? ›

It's wearing it/has it's aura when you check your Lich interface. The larvling should spawn with it, I think. Otherwise, like previous said, it will show on the lich. The ephemera will match the bonus damage type.

Does Belly of the Beast drop jade blueprints? ›

LPT: Jade's blueprints do not drop in the Belly of the Beast version of ascension, only in the regular version.

Does Belly of the Beast drop jade parts? ›

A successful clear will net you Volatile Motes, an event currency used to purchase rewards from Ordis in the Larunda Relay orbiting Mercury. You'll also earn standard Ascension rewards during this event, such as Jade parts and Vestigial Motes.

Are ephemeras tradable in Warframe? ›

The only tradeable Ephemeras are the ones through Sisters/Liches.

How do you redeem items in Warframe? ›

How do I redeem my Warframe code?
  1. Enter your redemption code in the “Promo Code” box.
  2. The package has now been added to your account (if you are currently logged into Warframe, you may need to logout and log back in for items to be applied to your account)
Dec 12, 2023

How do you use the trading post in Warframe? ›

Enter the Dojo and approach and use the Trading Post. Select the player you wish to trade with from the list of available players. Once both parties have picked the items they wish to trade, players can "Ready" for the trade and "Confirm" it or back out/make changes. Once both players hit confirm, the trade is made.

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