How to Recruit Epicrate in Sovereign Tower

Community reports and historical task dataGuides updated September 21 / October 16; snapshot August 31Escort, trial and escape sources compared October 20, 2026; not a current-build playthrough.

Reported Epicrate routes

Reported route	What the source says	Do not assume
Trial	Win the trial	That every trial choice is documented
Prison	Free Epicrates from custody	That an ordinary success and a character-specific outcome are identical
Timing	Act III	That the same scene appears in every timeline

Samhain's guide adds the entry point: Marian's escort request precedes the investigation, witness or escape choices. Complete that escort before looking for the later recruitment outcome. Neither guide establishes every hidden flag.

Prepare the defence or arrange an escape

Decide what you are trying to achieve before selecting the preparation assignment. These task names from the older snapshot correspond to different objectives, even when several involve Gavault:

• Prove Epicrates' innocence: the ordinary success explicitly records an innocence proof. This is the evidence direction that matches a defence objective.
• Prove Epicrates' guilt: success explicitly records a guilt proof. It is not interchangeable with successfully defending him.
• Seeking Epicrates' influence: records an impartial-proof result, not the same flag as innocence. Do not read every successful investigation as an acquittal.
• Free Epicrates: records an escape outcome rather than a courtroom verdict. Compare this assignment separately from witness preparation.

For the escape, SoldierZoom specifically warns not to send Tarcus. The snapshot corroborates that he has a separate outcome and follow-up, with a different escape flag from the ordinary success. It does not expose the complete resulting audience, so a special result should not be treated as proof that recruitment succeeded. Assign another suitable Knight if following the reported recruitment route.

The snapshot records deadlines on these preparation tasks. Check the remaining time and all displayed requirements before dispatch; do not copy an old stat total as a guaranteed current-build win. For the verdict path, bring the evidence result and your witness choice together rather than treating either in isolation.

Compare the reported trial witnesses

Witness	August 9 player reports
Liselle	A first-run acquittal with the Gavault witness familiar with its residents
Brunhilda	A successful trial without Kindness 3
Chester	Conflicting outcomes; selecting him alone does not predict the verdict

Other replies also report first-run success, so NG+ and Kindness 3 are not established universal requirements. Suggestions about hidden attributes remain speculation, not a confirmed witness-selection formula.

Read the witness discussion, especially replies 4–14.

Community-reportedVersion not statedCommunity witness replies reviewed September 19, 2026; not independently reproduced in-game.

Before retrying the trial

Keep a save before the trial if possible. Record the witness, dialogue choices and verdict together; changing all of them after a rewind makes it hard to identify what mattered. If the scene stops advancing, use the patch check below. A frozen scene and an unfavourable verdict are different problems, and neither establishes that the prison route is available from your current state.

Patch 1.1.1 fixes one trial soft lock

The official patch fixes a case where Omni-Forward stopped progress when Chester was a witness during Epicrates's trial. Update and reload from before the trial if that happened. The fix confirms a broken interaction, not the complete trial-winning or recruitment route.

Read the 1.1.1 update guide or the official patch notes.

Evidence limit

Already recruited him and checking a finale instead? Use the Epicrates ending-preparation checklist. Winning the trial and preparing a particular ending are separate questions; this page covers the former.

Verified scope: no official Epicrate recruitment trigger is in the current source set. Community-reported scope: an acquittal or freeing him from custody in Act III. The historical records help distinguish preparation objectives; they do not establish the full current decision chain.

See every labeled route in the recruitment overview, and read the Demon Power guide before experimenting with major branches.