How to Recruit Childeric in Sovereign Tower

Community route with official updateOlder recruitment reports; 1.2.0 special outcomeChilderic reports, Almor task records and the October 15 announcement compared October 20, 2026. Not independently reproduced in-game.

Recognize Childeric's final-trial request

Samhain places this encounter in Act II's Almor tournament. Before the last trial, Childeric visits court and asks you to arrange a loss by choosing a weak Knight. The reported recruitment path does the opposite: win, and he joins in place of your contestant. Neither guide supplies the exact dialogue options or a reliable stat threshold for winning.

Find your stage in the Almor tournament

Winning an earlier assignment is not the same as resolving Childeric's request. Use the task name to distinguish the stages:

1. Jousting tournament: this is a separate assignment from the final duel. An early victory does not establish that Childeric has joined.
2. The selected opponent fight: the older records include Political prisoner fighting and Fight the dragon. These are alternative task records, not instructions to complete both. If Dulahan's form change is your goal, check that route before replacing the prisoner option with a dragon fight.
3. The great duel: compare this final assignment with Childeric's preceding audience. The snapshot's ordinary success includes a contestant-departure instruction, which supports taking the roster cost seriously rather than treating the win as a free extra recruit.

These are August 31 reference records, not a complete current unlock script. Read every requirement shown in the live final task, including Luck when present, and keep a save before assigning the finalist if possible.

Choose the recruit before choosing your contestant

• Want Childeric: the reported route wins despite his request to throw the result. Do not deliberately choose a weak contestant merely because he asks you to.
• Want to retain your current Knight: weigh the reported replacement before dispatching. A stronger contestant can win while still leaving a hole in the roster you intended to keep.
• Want Goberto's armour: that is a different reported final-duel result, not the Childeric recruitment setup. A player follow-up warns that killing the dragon beforehand prevents Goberto's buff event; do not repeat the final with higher stats while ignoring that earlier choice.
• Considering Alwena: read the new 1.2.0 exception below before assuming that every non-Goberto finalist follows the old ordinary result.

If saving is available, preserve a point before assigning the finalist. Check both the tournament result and the Round Table afterward: a victory notification alone does not establish that recruitment succeeded.

Alwena has a new 1.2.0 result against Childeric

The official update adds an Unexpected Outcome when Alwena is sent to The Great Duel of Almor against Childeric, plus a variation in the following audience. The older snapshot does not list this pairing. Its absence there is not evidence that your newer result is a bug.

The announcement does not specify whether this special result preserves the ordinary contestant departure or produces Childeric's recruitment. If recruitment is your goal, inspect the follow-up audience and roster rather than treating “new special result” as “guaranteed Childeric.” Alwena's own dispatch-limit checklist explains what to check if she cannot accept the assignment.

If Childeric does not join

• Only won the joust? Continue checking the Almor audience and final-duel stage; you have not identified the recruitment decision merely by winning an earlier task.
• Sent Goberto? Compare his armour branch, including the earlier dragon choice, rather than treating his different result as a failed stat check.
• Sent Alwena on 1.2.0? Read the special follow-up first. The developer confirms a changed result, not the old route's full recruitment consequence.
• A different finalist won but no offer appeared? Keep the pre-final save and the actual audience text. The available reports do not identify a universal delay or another hidden threshold to add.

Still pending: exact choice text, minimum stats, earlier flags, and whether later patches alter the replacement consequence. The linked sources are player reports, not official recruitment rules.

For the separate race branch, see Zolta recruitment. Return to the recruitment overview to compare other roster choices.