Victoria is one of the strongest late-game knights we can get, but Sovereign Tower does not hand her to you the normal way.
How to recruit her? The point is that She never shows up in a regular candidacy audience. If you want Victoria on your Round Table rather than dead, follow her Enberg questline instead of taking one of the confrontation routes that kills her. That’s the path through the Enberg assassination storyline in Act III.
Patch 1.0.9 note: The developers fixed a bug where answers to Victoria’s trials were being matched to the wrong quests, which could make her believe the Sovereign was lying and cause her to leave. They also noted that the assassination involving Yohav/Yorhav and some other Victoria-related quest behavior may still act strangely.
About Victoria:
How to Recruit Victoria
Victoria is recruited exclusively through the Enberg storyline (no candidacy audience). The chain involves a series of trials linked to quests in the City of Enberg. Key related quests include:
- Murder Within Our Walls: leads into Victoria’s second trial
- Assassination Simulation / Discreet Assassination / Public Assassination
- Get Rid of Victoria’s Enemies / Intimidate Victoria’s Enemies / Pay Victoria’s Gnats
- Assassinate Yohav / Simulate Yohav’s Death
Progress through these quests in sequence. Completing the required actions correctly advances the Victoria’s trials states (first trial, second trial, third trial, trials completed). Once the trials are finished properly, Victoria joins the Round Table.
Avoid the pure confrontation routes if you want her alive. Taking the Ambush or duel paths kills her instead.
Victoria’s Trials Explained
What even are these trials we are talking about?
The game refers to the recruitment process as Victoria’s trials. These are successive events tied to the Enberg quests:
- Trial 1: Triggered after initial Enberg investigation or related events (including Murder Within Our Walls).
- Trial 2: Linked to the assassination choices (Assassination Simulation, Discreet Assassination or Public Assassination).
- Trial 3: Involves dealing with her enemies. Get Rid of Victoria’s Enemies, Intimidate Victoria’s Enemies, or Pay Victoria’s Gnats.
- Final Trial: Assassinate Yohav or Simulate Yohav’s Death. Completing either sets the flag that finishes the trials.
Basics You Should Know About Her
Victoria is a high-stat Half-Demon knight from the city of Enberg. The in-game description calls her the great and formidable knight.
Victoria is renowned throughout the kingdom for her unmatched talent and ruthless nature. Some ballads even call her invincible so, best not to make her an enemy. Oh, and she’s not romanceable.
She starts at level 13 with 7 armor. Her base stats are 13 STR / 13 AGI / 9 CHA / 13 MAG / 10 WIT / 9 LCK. That’s a fixed total of 67, the highest fixed starting total in the game. Chester’s random rolls are the only thing that can sometimes beat it.
She comes with a locked relic: Victoria’s Sword. You cannot change it. The sword gives +5 STR / +4 AGI / +2 CHA / +1 MAG / 0 WIT / −3 LCK. After applying Victoria’s Sword and the game’s 15-point stat cap, her effective stats are 15 STR / 15 AGI / 11 CHA / 14 MAG / 10 WIT / 6 LCK.
Victoria’s Traits & How They Work
Victoria’s known attributes are:
- Sadistic: score bonus when the quest involves killing humans. Also +1 on Intimidation and −1 on Help.
- Half-Demon: +1 on Magic Involved quests.
- Victoria’s Sword: locked relic, cannot be swapped.
Her hidden attributes:
- Touchy: affinity losses during quest assignment are doubled. Alwena’s Intendant rumors can reveal this.
- Half-Demon: She is a demon inside. You see this part of her several times.
Preferences and Affinity
Affinity runs on the normal −10 to +10 scale, and Victoria’s resignation threshold is −7. Her preferences are:
- Likes (+1.33 affinity): Assassination
- Dislikes (−0.75 affinity): Crowd
- Hidden dislike: Diplomacy
- Favorite meals (+1.5 affinity + 0.5 quest score): Croque-Monsieur, Préfou
Important distinction: quest preferences only move her affinity. Sadistic is a separate score bonus. So if you send her on Assassination missions she likes you more. If those same missions involve killing humans, Sadistic also boosts her performance. Keep the two systems straight.
How You Should Actually Use Her
Victoria is built for late-game ruthless work:
- Assassination quests (affinity gain)
- Quests involving killing humans (Sadistic score bonus)
- Intimidation quests (Sadistic +1)
- Magic Involved quests (Half-Demon +1)
Assassination is the ideal assignment when you want to raise Victoria’s affinity, giving her +1.33 each time. Her Sadistic and Half-Demon attributes separately make her stronger on quests involving killing humans, Intimidation or Magic Involved conditions.
Keep her off Crowd and Diplomacy whenever possible. She dislikes both, and her hidden Touchy attribute doubles affinity losses during quest assignment.
Related Characters
In Sovereign Tower, characters have connections and understanding these connections is important. It helps with better progression. Victoria mostly connects with:
- Gothild: Becomes available after you resolve (and kill) Victoria in the Ambush. Gothild is one of the knights.
- Ursula: Has a corruption arc tied to repeated deaths. Late game, Victoria may somehow convince Ursula to go with her. If this happens in your playthrough, you have three choices. Attack Victoria, Duel with her or try to rescue Ursula.
Recruit Victoria vs Kill Victoria
At the end, this text should help you decide better: Kill or spare?
| Choice | Result |
|---|---|
| Follow full Enberg recruitment | Victoria joins the Round Table alive |
| Complete Victoria’s Ambush (Mana Strala, requires four knights) | Victoria dies |
| Kill Victoria via Ambush or duel | Receive Victoria’s Sword + Demon Heart |
| Complete the Ambush kill route | Unlocks Gothild candidacy |
Recruit if you want the strongest fixed-stat late-game knight (67 base total) and the easier Peace ending path when she is on the roster. Kill if you prefer Victoria’s Sword and the Demon Heart instead.
