Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10167444-20130604182628/@comment-6003396-20130605060258

i think that frampt pays the player for the quality of the item, the quality of the item being judged by frampt himself.

there seems to be a pattern of what he likes and what he dislikes, specifically by seeing if he rewards more souls for a boss soul than if the player were to consume it himself. he seems to dislike things that are especially associated with smough, as he only rewards a single soul for both smough's soul, weapon and armor.

contrastingly, among the things that he likes are those associated with women, as he gives more for both priscilla's and quelaag's souls (and also that of gwyndolin). in addition he gives more souls for the gold-hemmed, dingy, antiquated and maiden set than he does most of the other armor set. he also dislikes the channeler's set, perhaps because they collected maiden's for seath's experiments.