It's meant to be hard and you can mitigate most damage with health regen skills and that. Tempered is almost like G-rank for high rank, arch tempered is like G-rank+.
It's the same as Teostra/Lunastra fire aura. All elders but Nerg have auras of their stuff. They introduced a mechanic called elder seal which removes said aura.
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