Accessories

Accessories are items that can be equipped on units and heroes. By default, normal land units have 1 accessory slot and heroes have 2, but this can be increased by 1 with the Meritocratic Promotion technology. All heroes also have a skill in their Class Skill Tree that increases the number of accessory slots again by 1, for a maximum of 4. There are also certain accessories that can only be equipped by heroes, such as those with the Tome or Insignia type.

Naval units have a special type of accessory called Officers that provide their own bonuses. Unlike other units, naval units have a default of 1 or 2 slots, and this amount cannot be increased. Additionally, officers do not come in tiers, making the officers of a given strategic resource available as soon as any tier of accessory for that resource is available.

As with weapons and armor, all Tier 1 Iron accessories are available at the start of the game, and further Iron and Dust accessories are unlocked by progressing into further technological Eras. The other standard accessories can be unlocked by getting the associated Technology from research or as a reward from Quests, and are shown below: There are also a handful of unique accessories that are acquired by other means, such as quests or blessings.

Tome
Tomes can only be equipped on heroes, and generally provides bonuses that are most useful to heroes assigned as governors.

Insignia
Like Tomes, Insignia can only be equipped by heroes, but typically provide bonuses fitting a hero acting as a general of an army.

Scopes
Scopes are a special kind of accessory that increases a hero's spying abilities. The three levels of it are unlocked by the Uncommon Armor, Marvelous Armor, and Exceptional Armor technologies.

Totems
Totems are a special kind of accessory exclusive to the Morgawr that become available after unlocking Dust-Mind Decoupling from their faction quest. These accessories can only be equipped on minor faction units, and decrease their Life by 5% every turn in exchange for powerful bonuses.

Pets
So far, there is only one pet accessory, which is part of the "Pet Sounds" Lore Quest.

Gemstones
Gemstones are a type of accessory exclusive to the Guardians, and are the only accessories that the Guardians can equip.

Officers
Officers are the accessories available to naval units. They come in the two subtypes of Engineer and Ordinator, but these types have very little effect on gameplay.