Grolik is a powerful Goblin, Although physically weaker than most men or dwarves his power is through the clever application of savage brutality. He is prone to cruel bouts of rage and bloodshed just like the rest of his species but he is also devious and more than capable of crafting elaborate battle plans that actually only rely on a long series of simple tasks that chain together into a genius tactical strategy. Other than that he loves chaos and madness, particularly as a city or town falls to chaos beneath his war band. He is less subtle than some of Lancelot's knight but a terrible force to be reckoned with none the less. He also thoroughly enjoys the sight of his enemies or rivals hope crumbling before his eyes, when their best plans fail to the onslaught of goblin deviousness.

Grolik was born in the upper rungs of Goblin society as a child of one of the generals. For many years he grew, and fought, and earned his scars but it quickly became obvious that he was a different kind of goblin when compared to his peers. He was smarter than any other goblin that had been know in living history. even the goblin king at the time was amazed at Grolik's intelligence. Unfortunately this painted a target on the young goblin as a threat to the goblin royalty, and right they where. Each plan they sent against him, each assassin and cruel trick they had used to subvert their own predecessors failed spectacularly against Grolik. for many years Grolik's mind was honed by out thinking his own people. While the majority of goblins are quite stupid those who rule may still be stupid but are often very clever,
able to think of very inventive means of murder.

Grolik survived well into adult hood fending off assassins and poison until he made his own grab for power, but it was not aimed at the goblin leadership. He managed to convince a small band of goblins to follow him and raided a dwarven keep. This happened often and the event was no surprise to either side. However Grolik's prize was a Dwarven gun and a steam driven vehicle. He successfully captured both and began taking them apart and learning how they worked. The designs where difficult to understand as a whole but the machine was actually a long series of simple parts. He crafted his own gun, it was a crude thing that was drastically more powerful than the Dwarven version, but also tended to explode sending fragments of the barrel as shrapnel around the room. He took the risk regardless, a simple act of extreme savagery was all that was needed to make him the king of Goblins.

He strode into the king's throne roon and fired his make shift blunderbuss at the king without ceremony or monologue. He wreathed the king in flame are blasted a hole through him the size of a watermelon. From then on his fate as king was sealed. However, his mind showed through when he promptly banned assassination and passed a law that stated "The one who kills the Goblin king is here by sentenced to death" While this may not seem like a solid plan, the goblins had never had laws before and believed that maybe it was worth a shot. Thus Grolik secured his domain over the goblins so strongly that there has been no attempts on his life since he ascended the throne.

What he did to make the goblin forces so terrifying was that he united them into a singular force rather than a hodge podge of warbands that all only partially owed their allegance to the goblin king. He drafted the smartest goblins he could find and turned them into engineers.
As the first version of the terribly dangerous guns and steam driven tanks came together he used them to launch a siege on the dwarves that occupied the mountain he would one day call his own. The Dwarves broke and where slaughtered to the last in the depth of their mines.
This gave Grolik and his cadre of engineers ample materials and examples to deconstruct. The dwarven technology was better in nearly every sense. Grolik's engineers managed to make a version that was truly deadly (often as much so for goblins as the enemy) and simple. Once safety components where largely removed and more powerful steam engines installed it made each vehicle a devastating weapon, even (or especially)
when it failed spectacularly.

Once the Dwarves where purged from the Goblin's new home they began work in the mines and workshops to churn out steam engines and guns at an alarming rate. The few human cities enjoyed a period of several years of peace and prosperity as teh goblins toiled away in their new home. However The first city fell some years later, shortly after Grolik turned 30, The tide of steam tanks and cannon fire brought the city to the ground within a single night. When the other cities learned of this they fortified themselves better and began prolonging each siege to the point of annoying Grolik immensely. About this time Grolik demanded something new from his engineers, and laid the plans for the great Goblin Zeppelins. While the steam tanks are prone to catastrophic explosions that detonate the steam boiler and explode the powder magazine the Zeppelins where designed somewhat more carefully as each demands a draining expense of resources. While parts of the zeppelins are prone to failure it is rarely disastrous and merely an annoyance of maintenance.