Evony General Covenant Unlock Requirements and Roster Guide

To unlock and progress through a General Covenant in Evony, develop your primary historic general to designated level and star thresholds while keeping specific companion historic generals in your roster. Dismissing or sacrificing a required companion general halts your Covenant advancement until you recruit and upgrade that companion again.

General Covenant Overview and Prerequisites

The General Covenant is an individual progression tree found in the general interface under the Covenant tab for select Epic Historic Generals, such as Martinus, Roland, Elektra, and Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Unlike equipment or dragon assignments, Covenant perks permanently boost the specific general's base performance across all deployments. These bonuses include troop attack, defense, HP percentages, march size, and march speed.

Covenant nodes unlock sequentially. Early tiers require standard level and gold star upgrades, while advanced tiers demand attribute cultivation thresholds, red star ascension, and specific companion generals.

Key Milestone Requirements

• Gold Star Enhancement: Medals and Gold are required to reach the initial 5 Gold Star baseline.
• Cultivation Thresholds: Middle nodes require minimum attribute values across Leadership, Attack, Defense, and Politics using Gold or Gem cultivation.
• Ascension Requirements: Upper stages require Red Star tiers, which consume duplicate general fragments and Blood of Ares.
• Roster Prerequisites: Advanced tiers require holding designated companion historic generals in your inventory, often enhanced to 5 Gold Stars.

How to Avoid the Companion General Roster Trap

The primary failure point in Covenant progression is dismissing or consuming required companion generals. Players often dismiss extra gold generals in the Tavern for Gold and experience or consume them as ascension fodder. If you discard a general tethered to another leader's Covenant tree, that node remains locked.

Recovering a lost companion creates severe bottlenecks:

• Tavern Refresh Costs: Rolling for a specific historic general can consume millions of Gold and thousands of Gems without a guaranteed result.
• Event Dependency: If the companion comes from limited-time recruitment events, Great General Chests, or fragment bags, recovery can take months.
• Resource Loss: Re-acquiring a discarded companion forces you to spend Medals and Gold a second time to bring them back to 5 Gold Stars.

Roster Safeguards to Protect Covenant Progress

Follow these procedures to protect your roster before purging generals or ascending leaders:

1. Audit Covenant Trees First: Before dismissing any gold historic general, check the Covenant tabs of your active PvP leaders, rally commanders, and wall defenders to confirm which companions they require.
2. Lock Required Companions Immediately: Open the character card of any required companion general and tap the lock icon. A locked general cannot be dismissed, converted, or sacrificed for ascension.
3. Keep Unsummoned Fragments in Inventory: General scrolls consume zero roster capacity while kept as 30-piece fragment stacks. Do not synthesize fragments into active generals until you are ready to satisfy a Covenant node.
4. Cap Companion Investments at 5 Gold Stars: Companion generals serve as keys to unlock your main leader's perks. Bring them strictly to the star tier required by the Covenant node (typically 5 Gold Stars). Do not spend Blood of Ares, Runestones, or Cultivation Gems on companions unless you deploy them actively in combat.

Upgrade Priority

Prioritize Covenant investments on your primary march leader—such as your main cavalry boss hunter (Martinus or Roland) or main archer leader (Elektra)—before spreading resources to wall defenders or sub-city mayors. Unlock early stages immediately for low-cost defense and HP boosts, and time the 5-star upgrades of your companions during Monarch Development events to earn milestone rewards.