Skyforge steel IS temperable without the unofficial patch and benefits from the steel smithing perk . Regular Skyforge Steel weapons , yes . However . The Skyforge Steel Dagger cannot be tempered , because it was completely left out of the appropriate list . This bug is fixed by version 1 . 0 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch . Obviously you can get better damage out of a daedric or glass dagger but this is to illustrate how easily it can be done fairly early on with lower tier weapons . Yeah , but by the time you finish the Companions , those higher quality daggers will be dropping like candy . Well , maybe not if you rush the quest line instead of doing the normal wandering around , but that ' s an unusual situation for most people .