Sovereign Tower romance is built through Knight affinity conversations rather than a separate dating menu. Heart-marked dialogue is the clearest reported signal, but recruitment history, route changes, jealousy, and Demon rewinds can all affect which relationship scenes remain available.
How Romance Works
The supplied romance overview describes a simple visible loop: talk to a Knight during available Morning or Afternoon sessions, choose the pink heart-marked response, and continue raising affinity until a private relationship scene becomes available. This is useful orientation, not a complete ruleset. The source does not establish a universal number of conversations, a fixed schedule, or the hidden value of each response.
Recruitment and personal story state matter alongside affinity. Ligia's candidacy follows a regional quest and a rewind-informed intervention. Gwendan can remain in his original presentation or return on a changed personal path. Those states are described as leading to different affinity scenes, so a full gauge alone should not be assumed to erase earlier route decisions.
The research names relationship scenes but leaves many choice blocks blank. This guide therefore does not reconstruct missing dialogue or claim that a general personality preference guarantees the next heart event. Read the current prompt, keep a save before a personal conversation, and treat the game's visible affinity state as more authoritative than an incomplete checklist.
Building Affinity
Heart-icon replies are the only broadly described affinity action in the matching romance overview. Use them when they appear, especially during the regular conversation periods identified by that source. The evidence does not show that every heart reply is always beneficial in every route, however, and it does not provide exact point gains. Numerical affinity values are To be confirmed.
Affinity events are presented as character-specific milestones. Ligia is reported to have three preliminary heart events followed by a romance event. Gwendan's list branches between his original and changed personal paths, with different later events. The headings confirm that route variation exists, but the supplied text contains no choices under those headings. Any exact answer sequence would be invented and is deliberately omitted.
Practical tracking is more reliable than guessing. Note the Knight's current route state, the conversation period, the heart icon offered, and whether the affinity display changes afterward. If a scene does not appear, first check whether that Knight's recruitment or personal problem has advanced; the supplied evidence does not justify assuming that repeating generic conversation is the only requirement.
Ligia's Reported Route
Ligia's relationship path begins with recruitment. The matching guide places her in the Southbay questline during Act II, where she searches for a wish-granting lamp for her father. Two reported retrieval assignments have short deadlines, but the initial attempt ends with the lamp already taken and Ligia leaving the Tower disappointed.
The source then describes using Demon Power to return to Ligia's first audience with knowledge from the failed timeline. An Omniscient response allows an immediate voyage toward the lamp. In that reported route, saving her father leads to county support, an Azure Sword relic, and Ligia's candidacy, provided the Sovereign did not lie to her. Exact timing, dialogue wording, and any hidden checks beyond that account are To be confirmed.
This rewind is best understood as a recruitment route reported by one guide, not a universal romance cost. The source does not say that every Ligia affinity event consumes another rewind, nor does it provide the missing choices for her one-, two-, three-heart, or romance scenes. Once she joins, use visible heart dialogue and follow her live personal prompts rather than filling those gaps with an assumed sequence.
Gwendan's Two Paths
Gwendan joins early in the reported route and can develop along two personal-story paths. Leaving his debt problem alone preserves the grandiose version introduced at the Tower. Pressing him to settle the problem can remove him from the Round Table for a time; the guide says he later returns in Act III with a humbler presentation, a new recruitment scene, and different affinity events.
The research labels separate late scenes for the original and humble paths. It characterizes the first as more comic and the second as a stronger redemption story involving connections made in Brimwood. Those are reviewer judgments, not proof that one path is mechanically superior. The source also mentions a monetary choice but does not establish its precise cost consistently within the romance materials, so the exact amount and relationship effects are To be confirmed.
Gwendan is reported to favor Wise rulers and dislike Audacious ones. That may help interpret available dialogue, but it is not a supplied answer key. No text is present beneath his heart-event headings, and the relationship route may also interact with his temporary absence and return. Preserve a save before resolving his personal problem if both versions matter to your playthrough.
Jealousy and Re-Recruitment
One walkthrough reports that starting a second seduction after completing a relationship can cause the first partner to leave the Round Table. The same author tested a workaround: dismiss the existing partner before pursuing the new relationship, then invite that Knight again from the world map. In that test, the Knight returned, but affinity had to be rebuilt.
This is a player report, not a verified universal rule. It does not prove that every partner reacts identically, that re-recruitment is always immediately available, or that later patches preserve the same state. The jealousy trigger, dismissal timing, availability conditions, and effect on personal scenes are To be confirmed. Do not dismiss an essential Knight immediately before a required assignment merely to test the workaround.
A controlled save is especially important here. Record the roster and affinity state before changing partners, then verify that the dismissed Knight appears as an invitation and that the intended route still advances. Re-recruitment restoring roster access is not the same as restoring the old relationship state.
Evidence Limits
The strongest supported points are the heart-icon affinity pattern, Ligia's rewind-linked recruitment account, Gwendan's two personal paths, and one tested jealousy workaround. The research does not supply complete affinity-event dialogue for Ligia or Gwendan, exact affinity gains, universal scene thresholds, or a complete list of romanceable characters.
Route descriptions may also mix story observations with author preference. A source calling one arc better does not make it canon, and a successful sequence from one save does not establish every hidden lock. Missing names, choices, costs, and results remain To be confirmed rather than being restored from context.