Sovereign Tower How to Get Rufus

Rufus is not a fresh Map Room name in Sovereign Tower — he is The Wolf restored to human form. First unlock Wolf by sending Angelica on Fight the Werewolf in Almor (Get Wolf), keep him seated, then let Belladonna complete Remove the Curse (or the two-heart alchemy-table fork). Wild Wits launched the full game on August 6, 2026. Patch 1.0.9 (13 August) fixed repetitive Rufus stables / free-time loops that made Kind affinity grinding feel stuck — update Steam before you assume a softlock (Patch Notes 1.0.9).

Demo-era Beast Hunt notes sometimes listed Rufus as a “magical traces” hunt fork. Post-launch community sheets treat that as outdated: the human knight is a transformation of Wolf, not a third mutually exclusive hunt sibling beside Sparky and Silgur. Use Beast Hunt for Sparky/Silgur; use this page for the fur-to-face rewrite.

What changes when the curse lifts

Wolf traits such as WOLF and GOOD BOY vanish. Stats and dialogue rewrite toward a human noble who still likes Galette Saucisse and Croque Monsieur. Romance sheets lean Kind, closer to Angelica than Ursula’s Audacity. Players report “knight-zoned” endings if affinity never finishes — if you only want Love Is All, Angelica or Brunhilda are clearer clocks (Romance, Achievements).

There is no roster that keeps both Wolf and Rufus. The cure is a point of no return without Demon rewind (Time Rewind, Transformations).

Sovereign Tower knight / Steam Deck related footage

Step-by-step

1. Recruit The Wolf — Angelica tame on the Almor werewolf fight, free Act 1 seat.
2. Unlock Witch / alchemy via Tower Servants and Annexes.
3. Raise Wolf affinity with Kind greetings and hunt cards he likes; avoid “mutt” insults.
4. Trigger Belladonna’s examination or the Groveshire Remove the Curse Magic-heavy quest.
5. Agree to cure. Refusing keeps fur for the rest of the reign.
6. After 1.0.9, confirm stables free-time advances once instead of looping.

Magic potions help the curse quest if your Magical average sits under the printed check (Quest Scoring). Patch 1.0.8 already softened weaker-stat penalties; still overshoot Magic rather than gambling a Critical Fail that kills Wolf and voids both identities.

Kind tone and kitchen

Feed Galette or Croque before heart / exam days. Keep Sovereign Archetypes Kind-heavy on Wolf weeks. Tyrannic spam tanks affinity toward resignation near -7 (Knight Loyalty). Do not dual-court Ursula (-20) while pushing Rufus’s Kind scenes.

Scheduling

Do not cure during King Slayer or Grest pirate panic. Transformation scenes deserve a quiet cycle so you can read the fork. After the cure, re-run the Quest Matcher — hunt tags may shift even if meals stay the same.

Common failures

• Trying to “hire Rufus” from the Map Room — he is not a 25-fund fallback.
• Killing the Groveshire beast for Silgur and never unlocking Wolf.
• Fast-forwarding through Belladonna’s table and refusing by accident — 1.0.9 omni-fast forward stays on (Controls).
• Rewinding the werewolf fight after the cure and losing track of which timeline still has fur.

Related pages

• Get Sparky and Get Silgur — hunt siblings, not Rufus clones.
• Get Angelica — required werewolf send.
• Character Endings — goodbye slides after the rewrite.
• Guides Hub — View all when the PC menu truncates.

Rufus is a mid-campaign identity flip: tame the wolf, trust the Witch, then use Patch 1.0.9’s quieter stables to push Kind affinity without the same scene looping forever.