OK so there is a test switch that locks you from progressing right? But you can exit the castle freely, I just exited it and the game did not stop me. When I went as Elim, alone, into the Kingsroad, it sent me into the cutscene where he, Odan and Jali and running from the purple dragon. But the cutscene didn't play so I was just locked in the screen where it was happening, hence the softlock.
Ok I will look into this , thanks very much. There's a party switch bug as I said so I'll get this fixed as well in the next day or two and that will hopefully be sorted. So annoying, I'd thought I went through and removed all the needed references. Thanks for feeding back, appreciate it! There was also one in the forge as well that let you bypass the entire dungeon ☠️, that will be removed as well.