Academic's Study

“	Up ahead, the seat of our... regrettable research.	„
	~ The Academic

The Academic's Study is a Node in Darkest Dungeon II. There are many different types of Academic's Studies, each with their own respective appearances and interactions. Upon entering, the player will be presented with up to four options (one for each hero) with different outcomes depending on the heroes' quirks and the type of the Academic's Study.

List of Academic's Studies

For more information about the loot, go to Academic's Study Trinkets, Combat Items, Quirks, Diseases and Inn Items.

Notes:

Scrounger quirk refers to all Quirks with the Scrounger tag (Sprawl Scrounger, Tangle Scrounger, Foetor Scrounger, etc.)

Mixed Quirksmeans Chance for aPositive Quirk and chance for a Negative Quirk

Broken Clockwork
	Doomsayer / Lost in Time / Misses the Mark / Nervous / Off Guard / Scatterbrained Calm / Early Riser / Lightning Reflexes / On Guard
	• Befuddling Sundial • Oversprung Pocketwatch
	Eagle Eye: Additional Indelible Trinket Scrounger: Additional Combat Item

Caged Creature
	Shattered Will / Cowardice / Darkly Curious / Cadaver Fearing / Cosmic Fearing / Gaunt Fearing / Germophobic / Hemophobic / Necrophobic / Needler / Nervous / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Pacifist / Squeamish / Terrified / Vicious / Zoophobia Bloodthirsty / Disarmer / Generous / Heavy Handed / Thanatomaniac Botulism / Cholera / Bloody Flux / Creeping Cough / Diphtheria / Periodic Paralysis / Rabies / Smallpox / Syphilis / Tarantism / Typhoid / Wasting Disease / The Worries / Leprosy / The Oozes
	• Pustule Salve • Pulsing Heart
	Bloodthirsty, Cosmic Hater, Daredevil & Darkly Curious: Pustule Salve + Negative Quirk Compassionate: Party: -2 Field Surgeon, Erudite: Pustule Salve + Mixed Quirks

Faceless Facsimile
	Blundering / Cadaver Fearing / Flawed Release / Germophobic / Cadaver Hater / The Yips Clutch Hitter / Deadly / Heavy Handed / Natural Swing / Precision Striker
	• Proxy Doll • Faceless Visage • 2 Random Combat Items
	Amateur Weaponsmith: 3 Random Combat Items Scrounger, Rummager: Additional Combat Item Clutch Hitter, Slugger Hero: Turn Start: Add (10%) (region-long buff) Deadly, Lethal Feint: Hero: Turn Start: Add (10%) (region-long buff)

Formless Sculpture
	Bad Digestion / Darkly Curious / Cosmic Fearing / Hypochondriac / Nervous / Occultomania / Occultophobic / Off Guard / Sickly Death Seeker / Defiant / Thanatomaniac / Cosmic Slayer / Cosmic Hater / Shadow Born / The Jinx
	• Otherworldy Fragment
	Scrounger: Additional Inn Items Shadow Born, Occultomania: Double Otherworldly Fragment Darkly Curious: Triple Otherworldly Fragment Erudite: +Positive Quirk

Familiar Desk
	Book Burner / Darkly Curious / Neat Freak Amateur Armorsmith / Amateur Weaponsmith / Sluice Scrounger / Sprawl Explorer / Sprawl Scrounger / Erudite / Foetor Explorer / Foetor Scrounger / Tangle Explorer / Tangle Scrounger / Shroud Explorer / Shroud Scrounger / Rummager / Tactical Thinker / Spotter / Tracker / Void Sight / Pathfinder / Vigilant
	• Book related Items •   Relics • Blood-Smeared Calculations • Random Indelible Hero Trinket
	Scrounger, Rummager: Additional Relics Erudite: + Positive Quirk Occultomania: Mixed Quirks

Hovering Polyhedron
	Darkly Curious / Cosmic Fearing / Hemophiliac / Light Sensitive / Lost in Space / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Ascetic / Calm / Devout / Cosmic Hater / Photomaniac / Cosmic Slayer / Thanatomaniac
	• Ethereal Dust • True Entropy
	Occultomaniac, Photomania: Double Ethereal Dust Daredevil, Darkly Curious: Mixed Quirks Erudite: Positive Quirk

Memories of a Dream
	Bad Digestion / Darkly Curious / Cosmic Fearing / Head Injury / Hydrophobic / Hypochondriac / Lost in Space / Lost in Time / Necrophobic / Nervous / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Scatterbrained / Thanatophobic / Weak Hold on Life Calm / Death Seeker / Defiant / Devout / Cosmic Hater / Nocturnal / Raconteur / Cosmic Slayer / Tactical Thinker / The Jinx Bad Humours / Fainting Spells / Periodic Paralysis / Tarantism
	• Quirks
	Shadow Born: Hero: Add : +4 (region-long buff) Bon Vivant: Positive Quirk Darkly Curious: Mixed Quirks Devout, Erudite : Hero: +25% Resolute Chance (region-long buff)

Scary Song
	Coward / Darkly Curious / Doomsayer / Cosmic Fearing / Flawed Release / Last Gasp / Lost in Time / Melophobic / Necrophobic / Nervous / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Terrified / Thanatophobic / The Yips / Tune Hummer Calm / Dancer's Balance / Martyr / Slippery Bad Humours / Fainting Spells / Periodic Paralysis / Tarantism
	• Obsidian Dronepipe • Astroglass Flute
	Calm: Hero: -3

Sealed Doorway
	Blundering / Coward / Darkly Curious / Cadaver Fearing / Cosmic Fearing / Head Injury / Light Sensitive / Necrophobic / Nervous / Thanatophobic / The Yips Bloodthirsty / Breacher / Sluice Scrounger / Sluice Tactician / Daredevil / Death Seeker / Swine Hater / Lurker / Nocturnal / Swine Slayer
	• Murder Weapon • Random Cultist trinket • Tinned Delicacies
	Shadow Born, Lurker, Daredevil, Darkly Curious: Hero: +4 (region-long buff) + Mixed Quirks Blundering: 1 - 4 Food Scrounger: Double Tinned Delicacies

Shambler's Altar
	-15 Flame Blundering / Shattered Will / Coward / Darkly Curious / Doomsayer / Cosmic Fearing / Light Sensitive / Lost in Time / Lost in Space / Lost in Time and Space / Nervous / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Thanatophobic / Weak Hold on Life Cosmic Slayer
	• Shambler Encounter
	Darkly Curious: Hero: -5 Blundering, Death Seeker: Hero: Add Lost in Time, Lost in Space, Lost in Time and Space: Hero: Add Occultomaniac, Shadow Born, Daredevil: Hero: Add

The Thing in the Corner
	Bad Digestion / Shattered Will / Bum Leg / Coward / Darkly Curious / Cadaver Fearing / Gaunt Fearing / Germophobic / Hypochondriac / Nervous / Off Guard / Pacifist / Sprained Ankle / Sprained Wrist / Squeamish / Thanatophobic / Torn Rotator Cuff / Tuckered Out / Vicious / Zoophobia Bloodthirsty / Compassionate / Disarmer / Field Surgeon / Cadaver Hater / Gaunt Hater / On Guard / Shadow Born / Sneaky Bloody Flux / Botulism / Cholera / Creeping Cough / Diptheria / Periodic Paralysis / Rabies / Smallpox / Syphilis / Tarantism / Typhoid / Wasting Disease / The Worries / Leprosy / The Oozes
	• Grim Mask • Heart-Shaped Padlock
	Compassionate: Hero: -3 + Positive Quirk Bloodthirsty: Curio Trinket + Negative Quirk Daredevil, Occultomaniac: Positive Quirk and Negative Quirk Field Surgeon: Party: -2

Thought Experiment
	Bad Digestion / Coward / Darkly Curious / Cadaver Fearing / Gaunt Fearing / Germophobic / Hypochondriac / Light Sensitive / Lost in Space / Necrophobic / Nervous / Scatterbrained / Thanatophobic / Squeamish Ascetic / Bloodthirsty / Eagle Eye / Field Surgeon / Cadaver Hater / Precision Striker
	• Anatomical Map • Corrupted Bile Gland
	Darkly Curious: Hero: +4 (region-long buff) Erudite: Hero: +50% RES (region-long buff) Calm: Hero: -5

Timeworn Volumes
	Book Burner / Darkly Curious / Cosmic Fearing / Hypochondriac / Kleptomania / Lost in Time / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Scatterbrained Sluice Tactician / Sprawl Explorer / Sprawl Tactician / Devout / Erudite / Foetor Explorer / Foetor Tactician / Tangle Explorer / Tangle Tactician / Shroud Explorer / Shroud Tactician / Cosmic Slayer / Tactical Thinker / Spotter / Tracker / Void Sight / Pathfinder / Vigilant
	• Book related Items • Almanac: All Regions
	Book Burner: Hero: -5 Scrounger, Rummager: Additional Combat Item Erudite: Hero: +50% RES (region-long buff)

Unsettling Portrait
	Bad Digestion / Coward / Darkly Curious / Doomsayer / Cosmic Fearing / Greedy / Light Sensitive / Necrophobic / Nervous / Occultomaniac / Occultophobic / Selfish / Thanatophobic / Vicious Death Seeker / Martyr
	• Caked Palette • Unnatural Pigment
	Darkly Curious: Hero: Add Negative and Positive Quirk

Vintage Collection
	Anemic / Bad Digestion / Germophobic / Hypochondriac / Resolute / Thin Blooded / Tippler Bon Vivant / Clotter / Daredevil / Generous / Raconteur Bad Humours / Algal Bloom / Botulism / Dysentery / Syphilis / The Runs / Wasting Disease
	• The Wine • The Blood
	Scrounger, Rummager: Additional and Bon Vivant, Tippler: Hero: -5 + Positive Quirk

Trivia

• The various Academic's Studies contain many references to the first game.
  • The Unsettling Portrait is a portrait of The Ancestor.
  • The Vintage Collection and The Blood are related to The Crimson Court.
  • The Shambler's Altar functions similarly to its predecessor.
  • The painting in Memories of a Dream depicts the Darkest Dungeon.
  • The figure on top of the record player in Scary Song could be a reference to the Siren