Standard Study categories
Studies are divided into the following categories:
Economic: give a bonus to the economic processes in your Town.
Military: improve the military characteristics of your troops and allow you to unlock new types of troops.
Training: these Studies help you train your warriors faster and more cheaply, and also affect some of their stats.
Espionage: these Studies improve stats and unlock new types of scouts.
Assailants: Studies in this category increase your Hero's characteristics in battles against Assailants.
Hero: these Studies improve the Hero's stats and increase the health, offense, and defense stats of troops led by the Hero.
Tier I–V Warriors: these Studies help you develop tier I–V troops.
Tier VI Warriors: these Studies help you develop tier VI troops. To conduct the Studies, you will need the Pearls item.
Tier VII Warriors: these Studies help you develop tier VII troops. To conduct the Studies, you will need the Sulfurum item.
Inquisitors: Studies in this category improve the stats of any troop led by the Inquisitor. They also grant the ability to fuse runes of the usual type and higher and speed up the rune fusion process. These Studies also increase the Inquisitors' characteristics when fighting Apostates.
To get more information about a Study, hit its icon in the Academy. Studies that are currently available have bright and clearly visible icons. Unavailable Studies have gray icons.