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its limit, and it doesn’t take much to set him off. He once trashed an entire settlement purely because a [[grot]] attendant spilt engine oil on his breakfast.{{Fn|1b}}
As a younger Ork, Grukk killed [[Krugg the Tyrant]], Warboss of his tribe, to seize power for himself. While such leadership challenges are par for the course in Ork society, the utter brutality of the battle and the spectacular fashion in which Grukk finished his old rival gave rise to the nickname ‘face-rippa’{{Fn|1b}} (literally defacing the face of the boss using his own power klaw, which later Grukk claimed for himself).{{Fn|6}} Though the Orks of Grukk’s tribe would never admit it, they are all a bit scared of Grukk, and rightly so. No one wants to lose face in front of his mates, after all. Grukk’s power klaw is a howling, whining beast of a thing. It features a kustom buzz-saw that Grukk uses to live up his nickname as often as he can. It also magnifies his strength from merely impressive to utterly terrifying.{{Fn|1b}}
At the [[Slaughter of Black Gulch]], Grukk famously tore open a malfunctioning [[Drop Pod]] to get at the [[Space Marine]]s inside. He then cut all ten of the Adeptus Astartes into pieces, one by one, in a series of increasingly violent kills. It was such an ignoble fate that the commanders of the battle company authorised a revenge strike upon Grukk himself. Despite inflicting severe damage, the Space Marines were unable to complete their mission. Grukk is still alive today, albeit covered in a grotesque patchwork of thick, knotted scars. The same cannot be said of the [[Obsidian Glaives]] Chapter.{{Fn|1b}}
