The Singularity Doctrine: Post-Fallout Civilisation and the Druids

Civilisation after the Fallout works like a Sid Meier's game.

Earth has turned into radioactive waste planet, and Post-Fallout powers can only gain territories by sending Druid Circles (settlers) to convert some wasteland, purifying it out of radioactivity and planted a working ecosystem using G.E.C.K and other related tools.

New human races, either the result of mutation or some mad scientist's experiments appears, such as the elves, the dwarves, the orcs, the beastmen, etc.

The Second Grand Synthesis of before the Great War has given new understanding on how reality works, but the lacks of precise instruments forces those who wanted to apply those theories into practice to develop new applications with minimal reliance on precise instruments of science.

People called it magic.

The more knowledgeable people called it alchemy, similar to molecule manipulation rechniques of chemistry, but on a sub-atomic level alchemy manipulates particles.

Different practitioners called those particles manipulables throught their techniques differently, even thought it's basically the same things: mana, ki, or force.

And those practitioners called themselves Wizards, Cultivators and Jedis, and they were revered very much.

But in a radioactive Post-Fallout world, the most revered profession are the Druids.

They were the ones that reclaims the wasteland and making them habitable.

The main things was that the maintenance of said land, to keep them working is a right given to the Druids that did it in the first place and his descendants. By reclaiming the wasteland, the Druids and their descendants gains territorial right on them.

So, everybody longs to become a Druid so that they'll be able to build their own Nobility House later.

This story tells the tale of a young elf treasure hunter who managed to unearth a precious Pre-Fallout artifact and travelling to a town in the Frontier Land in the hope that said Druid would give him not mere remuneration, but also recommendations he needed for higher educations, which essential if he wanted to be eligible for the Druid Academies' entrance.