Creatures Of Ozeum

Welcome to Ozeum!

Ozeum is a magical world populated by animal people, and these comics are their stories!

Each comic short is self-contained, so you don’t need to start from the beginning if you just wanna read a few comics. However, the same characters show up multiple times, and you might enjoy seeing their lives unfold over time if you do read in order. It’s up to you!

Comic update every Tuesday and sometimes on Thursday too!

The very first comic is here!

I post everything early (sometimes months earlier!) for my ko-fi members here!

My main blog is fruityfinch and I am also ‘fruityfinch’ on most other platforms I use!

No. 38 - introducing Jolly!

Jolly is a black-tailed jackrabbit and a recently graduated artificier, which is a sort of engineer. She’s started work at an interesting time in Ozeum’s history… as magic continues to fade, all kinds of tools and infrastructure reliant on magic are beginning to fail. It’s hard to know how to even begin approaching that many problems at that kind of scale.

(I started this comic and the first two pages just sat unfinished for quite some time - when I picked it back up I went overboard with the preliminary sketching, and decided to just clean up the sketches and use those instead!)

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No. 37 - Lore of Ozeum (meat-eating part 2)

(Previous)

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No. 36 - Lore of Ozeum: Meat-eating

I understand why a lot of media with animal people has food chain-related tension between predator and prey species, buuuut in Ozeum it isn’t a huge issue. Agriculture and magic/technology take care of food concerns, so it’s not a major cultural problem they have to deal with.

Which is not to say that it NEVER happens, of course…

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No. 35 - Lore of Ozeum (parentage and breeding continued)

(Previous comic)

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No. 34 - Lore of Ozeum (parentage and breeding)

If you have questions or want to know more about a specific detail, on this topic or any other topic/character of Ozeum, drop an ask or a reply - the storyteller would love to elaborate! 💬

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No. 33 - Koz & Tallulah

Tallulah keeping up the time honoured tradition of PE teachers and sports coaches wearing big coats while kids run around in t-shirts!

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No. 32 - Lore of Ozeum (Asejjan and Heassan continued)

Relevant previous comic

In response to a comment from @veryhumanperson (thank you for commenting!)

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No. 31 - Lore of Ozeum (Asejjan and Heassan)

Are there any bits of lore / world-building you’d like to know more about? The Storyteller loves to talk so will happily answer your enquiries if you have them!

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You can trust them. Can’t you?

Don’t you think you can trust them?

No. 30 - Calico & Nat

I cash up for my job sometimes and you Gotta wash your hands after handling money for any extended amount of time. Sometimes the water runs grey when you do. It’s real nasty 🤢

In Ozeum the currency is called Grats, but there’s also still commonplace bartering or exchanging of favours! “Grat” comes from the word ‘gratitude,’ since cash money is still closely related to the idea that you’re exchanging knowledge or skills with people when you buy stuff… just indirectly.

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No. 29 - introducing Kanko!

I’m fond of Kanko and pleased to finally introduce her… She’s a black kite, which is a bird that’s been known to spread wildfires to flush out prey, so it made sense as a species pick for a pyromancer!

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