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: allow you to train your warriors faster and more cheaply. In addition, these Studies will affect some of their characteristics.

Espionage: these Studies improve basic characteristics 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: Studies of this category will improve the stats of the corresponding troops.

Tier VI Warriors: this category is designed for developing tier VI troops. To conduct the Studies, you will need the Pearls item. You can get it as a reward for passing checkpoints in Tournaments and for taking a top place in the ranking.

Tier VII Warriors: this category is designed for developing tier VII troops. To conduct the Studies, you will need the Sulfurum item. You can get it as a reward for passing checkpoints in Tournaments or purchase it as part of Bank offers.

Inquisitors: Studies in this category improve the military stats of any troop led by the Inquisitor, as well as giving the opportunity to fuse runes of the usual type and higher, and speeding up the rune fusion process. These Studies also increase the Inquisitors' characteristics when fighting Apostates.

To get more information about a Study, click its icon in the Academy. Studies that are currently available have bright and clearly visible icons; unavailable Studies have gray icons.