Part of the Events Series:

Event Calendar: Every event cycle (Start Here).

Barbarian Forts Guide: The daily loop this event runs on.

Best Commander Pairs: Lohar's job on your account.

Quick Answer

Lohar's Trial runs roughly once a month for two days. You kill ordinary barbarians on the map to collect Bone Necklaces, which can yield Lohar Relics — Lohar's Longbow and Lohar's Buckler. Opening a relic summons Lohar and his elite troops next to your city, and defeating him rewards you and everyone who helped, including Lohar sculptures. It is the most reliable free route to building Lohar, who anchors the best barbarian-farming pair in the game.

Overview

This is a small event with an outsized long-term payoff, because of who Lohar is. He is not a fighter and he never will be — he is a healer whose value is making barbarian clearing effectively lossless, which is what turns your action points into commander XP efficiently. See how to level up commanders fast.

Cao Cao plus Lohar has been the standard barbarian pair for years and survives every meta shift, because farming barbarians never changes. Lohar's Trial is how you get the sculptures to build him.

How It Works

Kill barbarians on the map during the event window. Your normal daily barbarian clearing is the activity — you do not need to do anything special.
Collect Bone Necklaces, the event item barbarians drop while the trial runs.
Obtain Lohar Relics — Lohar's Longbow and Lohar's Buckler — with a chance from your necklace collection.
Open a relic to summon Lohar and his elite troops near your city.
Defeat him — usually with alliance help — and everyone involved collects rewards, including Lohar sculptures.

Because the summon appears near your city, this is naturally a co-operative activity: call it out in alliance chat and let others join, and expect to be called on for theirs.

How to Get the Most From It

Bank your action points before the event starts. Action points cap and stop regenerating, so arriving at a two-day window with a full pool and refill items means far more barbarian kills inside it. This is the single biggest lever on your necklace count, and it needs planning a day or two out — see the event calendar.

Use your peacekeeping pair. Whatever cheap Peacekeeping-talented commanders you farm with normally — Cao Cao, Boudica, Minamoto, Aethelflaed. The Peacekeeping tree's action-point cost reduction directly increases how many barbarians you clear per event.

Clear the highest barbarian level you can beat cleanly. Higher levels are more efficient per action point, provided you are not taking losses that need healing.

Help with every summon in alliance chat. Participation pays, and reciprocity is how you get people showing up for yours.

Do not save relics. Open them during the window. There is no bonus for hoarding and the event ends.

Is It Worth Doing?

For any account that has not finished Lohar: yes, without hesitation. He is cheap, he is permanent, and he pays for himself in commander XP within weeks of being built. There is no meta in which a good barbarian farmer becomes obsolete.

For an account that already has Lohar maxed, it is a modest two days of rewards on top of activity you were doing anyway — worth showing up for, not worth reorganising your week around.

FAQ

How often does Lohar's Trial run?

Roughly once a month, for two days.

How do I get Bone Necklaces?

Kill ordinary barbarians on the map during the event. Standard daily barbarian clearing is all it takes.

What are Lohar's Longbow and Lohar's Buckler?

Lohar Relics — items you can obtain during the event and open to summon Lohar and his elite troops near your city.

What do you get for defeating Lohar?

Rewards for you and every governor who helped, including Lohar sculptures, which is the point of the event.

Is Lohar worth building?

Yes. He is a healer, not a fighter, and he makes barbarian farming nearly lossless — the foundation of your commander XP economy. Never bring him to a real fight.

How do I prepare for Lohar's Trial?

Bank action points and refill items ahead of the window, and have your peacekeeping pair built and ready.

Key Takeaways

Monthly, two days, driven by ordinary barbarian killing.
Bone Necklaces yield relics; relics summon Lohar; beating him drops his sculptures.
Bank action points before the window opens — that is the whole preparation.
Use your Peacekeeping pair for the action-point discount.
Lohar is PvE forever, and worth finishing precisely because barbarian farming never goes out of meta.

Rise of Kingdoms Lohar's Trial: Bone Necklaces, Relics and Rewards