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Hello and welcome to The Dorok Project! An ongoing worldbuilding and comic project set in a sci-fi fantasy setting, with post apocalypse undertones.

This is a joint project created by concept artist, @den-with-6-ns with-6-ns and co-produced by her dear friend, @kingvaeonic .

"Together we seek to produce visually interesting and functional concept art in a unique world setting, with heavy emphasis on speculative biology and worldbuidling coupled with functional fantasy langauges."

ongoing worldbuilding and comic project where humanity faces a strange mutated world in a sci-fi fantasy setting.

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"Enter a sci-fi fantasy world in which humanity struggles to find its place among an unforgiving landscape of mutated creatures and abnormal

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* While his project is authored by two individuals, we have had a lot of help from volunteers over the development cycle.

* Please reach out of you would like to be a volunteer!

The Hooksnout is a herbivorous grazer that travels in small pods of two to five individuals. A member of the Genoid clade, it is generally docile and prefers to avoid conflict, though its powerful, bony head can become a lethal battering ram when threatened.

Among its most distinctive features are its two pairs of eyes and nostrils.

Each eye moves independently, granting the Hooksnout an exceptionally wide field of vision, akin to a chameleon, while its complex respiratory system allows it to thrive in the lesser polluted mutated biomes.

Hooksnouts inhabit the flowering meadows of the Lurid Grasslands, where they use their long tongues to strip flowers, fungi, shrubs, and berry-bearing plants of edible matter. Though not especially vocal, they communicate through soft puffs, snorts, and high-pitched whines shared among their pod.

As promised, these are the winners keychain prize designs for the Dorok drawing competition that took place, the top 3 point contributors (technically five because two other individuals tied for 3rd place) would get to choose from. If there was ever the demand for it, these designs would go into the creation of the Dòrok official merch store, in which any and all proceeds would go directly into funding the comic production.

Congratulations team Anja!

And congratulations not only to the biggest point contributors but to every single person who participated!

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Introducing Bhumēsci [vumeːˈʃi]

Nestled within the fertile heart of the Habitable Zone, Bhumēsci is a constitutional monarchy of rolling highlands, river valleys, vineyards, and mist-covered trade cities. Though small in size, its position beside Festællan, the world's dominant superpower, has made it one of the most strategically important nations on the continent.

For centuries, Bhumēsci thrived as a maritime trade power. Its northern island ports connected inland nations to global shipping routes, bringing immense prosperity and influence through its alliance with Ocche. At its height, the kingdom became known as a stable neutral intermediary, rich in commerce and diplomacy.

But prosperity rarely lasts forever.

After rising tensions with Ocche, the nation of Yisulkahl seized Bhumēsci’s largest trade port and their sole island, crippling its economy almost overnight. Refugees fled south as the kingdom spiraled into instability, until neighboring Festællan opened its borders and stepped in as protector, investor, and eventually dominant partner.

Today, Bhumesci has transformed completely.

Yet despite everything, Bhumēsci endures.

Beyond the smokestacks of industry, the countryside remains untouched: terraced vineyards stretching across emerald hills, ancient villages hidden in river valleys, and a monarchy that still serves as the symbolic heart of the nation.

A country reshaped by loss, survival, and adaptation, standing uneasily between sovereignty and dependence.

The Dòrok Sky Mammoth — the largest military vessel in this world.

Comparable in size to an aircraft carrier and staffed by nearly 3,000 personnel, yet it serves an entirely different purpose. Dòrok’s engineering philosophy has never been military-first; their machines are designed as engineering marvels before they are efficient weapons of war.

As the only nation to fully standardize propulsion-based hover technology across its aircraft, Dòrok has pushed airborne engineering far beyond any rival. The Sky Mammoth stands as the pinnacle of that ambition: a battleship-class aircraft built for overwhelming ground assault, carrying enough artillery to level entire cities alone.

But power comes at a cost. These colossal vessels are painfully slow, vulnerable to aerial attack, and dependent on massive escort formations for protection. Each one requires nearly 30 years to construct, and only 12 exist in total.

Because of this, the Sky Mammoth is rarely deployed. For all its terrifying firepower, it is often considered less a practical war machine and more of a liability hovering above the battlefield.

Shussar’s Army — large aircraft personnel uniforms and ranks.

In a world where nations create airships the size of naval vessels, military structures begin to blur the line between airforce and navy. In Dòrok, the airships themselves are classified with naval terminology, and so are the crews that operate them.

Designing these uniforms became a fascinating exercise in worldbuilding because it forced me to think beyond modern Western military structure. Dòrok is not America. It is not a global superpower, nor a nation built around military dominance. Its armed forces developed through a completely different cultural lens, with different priorities, traditions, and ideas of hierarchy.

That especially shaped the uniforms. While many real-world Central Asian and Eurasian militaries that Dòrok draws its inspiration from eventually adopted Western standards (I.e peaked caps, epaulets, standardized insignias) Dòrok retained its own visual identity. Rank is represented through sashes rather than epaulets, creating a system that feels both functional and culturally distinct.

Hats also play an important role in Dòrok’s culture, so different military roles are identified through unique headwear. The Gunner’s hat, for example, draws inspiration from the nation’s archers of old. Even in an era of futuristic weaponry and massive aerial warships, traces of older traditions still remain woven into the uniform itself.

Introducing

Anja and Nazusha - Protagonist and Deuteragonist

Anja - She’s all instinct and fire: the kind of person who dives first, thinks later, but beneath the adrenaline is someone rebuilding herself piece by piece, learning that strength isn’t just destruction, it’s restraint.

Her scars tell the truth. Her plane Azlanaë keeps her grounded.

And for the first time in her life, she’s not running, she’s choosing who she becomes.

Nazusha - Calculation wrapped in silk and gold: brilliant, controlled, and always watching. To his people, he is stability. To his enemies, a closed door. To himself, a man who never got to be one.

He believes power is sacrifice. That order must be maintained, no matter the cost.

But beneath the mask, there’s something quieter, someone who cooks to remember family, who protects too fiercely, who wonders what life might’ve been without the crown.

She is freedom. He is responsibility.

She breaks the rules. He writes them.

They meet in the space between.

Not as monarch and mercenary.

But as two people learning how to live in a broken, yet mysterious post apocalyptic world .

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Nazusha - The Shussar - Deuteragonist

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Also, obligatory Nazusha repost because he has been completed and touched up

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Obligatory anja repost because she’s the protagonist and I actually have all of her materials finalized

The Mutated Biomes.

Not all wastelands are dying. Some are healing.

The Mutated Biomes aren’t accidents, they’re the result of the AAM (Advanced Accelerated Mycobacteria), a bioengineered organism designed to consume the world’s worst toxins. Radiation. Chemical waste. The scars we thought would last forever.

What it leaves behind is something stranger. As the AAM breaks down contamination, it releases “pollution”, a volatile, dangerous byproduct that reshapes entire ecosystems.

But this isn’t collapse. It’s transition.

These biomes form in layers, each defined by pollution intensity such as:

Level 2 - Lurid Grasslands

Level 3 - Pestilent Thickets

Level 3 - Noxious Jungles

Level 4 - Luminous Forests

Level 5 - Bleeding Mires

Every stage is part of a long process that can take centuries, but eventually, the AAM dies.

The pollution fades.

The land becomes habitable again.

You can read about each specific biome individually by scrolling the posts on this account.

The Lurid Grasslands are where contamination begins, and where it nearly ends.

These level 2 ecosystems sit at the threshold, the first step into mutation, or the last before purification. Here, AAM presence is low, the atmosphere lighter, the toxicity no longer suffocating but still unmistakably present.

Vast fields stretch outward in impossible color, sky blues, corrosive yellows, iridescent greens, a landscape that feels less like ruin and more like something rewritten.

The Lurid Grasslands are not free of contamination...

They are what remains when it begins to let go.

The Pestilent Thickets are where damage begins to loosen its grip.

More polluted than the Lurid Grasslands, these dense growths emerge as contamination concentrates and vegetation tightens into tangled formations that trap lingering toxins. The air remains heavy, the atmosphere unstable, yet the ecosystem has not stopped moving forward.

Within the thickets, the first signs of transition appear. Amid altered flora, traces of familiar plant life begin to return, cautiously reclaiming ground once overwhelmed by chemical disruption.

They are still hazardous. Still marked by the legacy of contamination.

But they are also thresholds, places where the trajectory begins, slowly, to bend back toward equilibrium.

The Pestilent Thickets mark the fragile beginning of recovery.

The Noxious Jungles suffocate slowly.

Here, contamination does not explode into catastrophe, it circulates. Rivers, swamps, and humid basins trap toxins within dense violet canopies, ensuring exposure is constant rather than sudden.

Indigo forests rise where pollution lingers in water and air alike. Every root, every droplet, every breath participates in the cycle.

Because here, the damage does not announce itself.

It settles in and becomes part of the system.

The Luminous Forests glow not from wonder... but from warning.

These are the second most polluted ecosystems shaped by AAM activity, regions where contamination did not reach total collapse, yet remained severe enough to permanently alter the trajectory of life. Here, bioremediation did not restore the old world. It illuminated something new.

Where toxicity lingers, life responds, not by returning to what once was, but by becoming something unfamiliar.

The Luminous Forests are beautiful in the way distant lightning is beautiful: awe-inspiring, unsettling, and impossible to ignore.

They remind us that even when catastrophe does not completely consume a world, it still leaves it permanently changed.

The Bleeding Mires are the most polluted places left on Earth, infested.

landscapes where humanity’s mistakes did not fade, they metastasized.

Born in the shadows of nuclear ground zeros, and waste melting pots, these wetlands exist where contamination reached such catastrophic intensity that even engineered solutions spiraled beyond control. The bacteria meant to cleanse the world created an atmosphere of living toxicity, a biome where the air itself bears the weight of human failure.

Crimson vegetation spreads across poisoned waters like an open wound. Every organism that survives here does so under constant chemical siege. Adaptation is not triumph, it is necessity forced by devastation.

The Bleeding Mires endure as the starkest reminder that the consequences of human ambition do not go quietly.

A quickerAnja in her traditional ethnic attire of Festællan. She hails from one of six kingdoms in Festællan, this particular kingdom is loosely inspired by the Scottish highlands with a hint of Germanic and Estonian influence.

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