In the brutal, chaotic world of Warhammer 40,000, the Ork Dok, or Painboy, is a unique figure among the greenskin hordes—a combination of battlefield medic, mad scientist, and utterly deranged butcher. These crazed Orks possess an unholy fascination with surgery, grafting, and “fixin’ up boyz,” wielding crude medical tools like saws, drills, and syringes that are as likely to maim as they are to heal. To an Ork, pain is merely another part of life, and a Dok’s operating table is a place of both agony and glory, where the biggest and baddest Orks are patched up, upgraded, or cobbled together in ways that would make even the Mechanicus blanch.
The Doks are revered in Ork society—not for their medical expertise (which is questionable at best) but for their ability to slap together wounded Boyz with sheer audacity and unorthodox methods. Missing an arm? The Dok might graft on a mechanical claw. Got a hole in your gut? A Dok will stuff it with scrap metal and declare you “good as new.” Some Doks are also responsible for the creation of Ork cyborgs known as Cyborkz, terrifying monstrosities of flesh and metal that embody the Orks’ brutal ingenuity. The success rate of these operations is irrelevant to the Orks; the mere fact that a Dok is willing to try is enough to earn their trust—at least until they don’t survive the procedure.
Perhaps most infamous of all, however, is the Dok’s role in creating the legendary Ork Nobs and Warbosses. Through crude yet effective surgery, Doks will enhance their patients with all manner of grotesque augmentations, from reinforced jaws to muscle-boosting “squig” implants, ensuring that the biggest and strongest Orks remain the undisputed leaders of their warbands. Yet for all their madness, there is a genius to their work, an uncanny understanding of Ork physiology that keeps the Waaagh! going, no matter how many casualties they suffer. For an Ork, visiting a Dok is as much about survival as it is about becoming bigger, badder, and ready to smash heads with renewed vigor—assuming they live to tell the tale.