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[[File:GretchinArt.jpg|thumb|right|A Gretchin{{Fn|11}}]]
The Gretchin are happy enough in their role. They bear little resentment towards their superiors, for them Orks are just a fact of life. Individual Gretchin can enjoy a relatively comfortable existence by providing valuable services to their Ork masters. Most Grots are owned by Orks as personal servants, though some gather together into loose tribes that may even own functional weapons and equipment. The Gretchin have created an entire enterprise culture of their own within their Ork-dominated society. Many Gretchin operate their own black-market businesses on the side, such as selling fungus-beer, roasting [[squigs]] on sticks, coordinating the bets when a fight breaks out or looting corpses for fun and profit.{{Fn|1}}
Though they usually obey to Orks, Gretchin could live on their own - on planets where only Gretchins settled and even could create small Empires in space, that apes Orks empires completely.{{Fn|9}} There is also a faction known as [[Rebel Grots]] who had too much of their rough treatment and rebelled against their masters. Because of their organisation skills they could sometimes build and maintain war machines and artillery.{{Fn|2}} {{CMS}}Because Gretchin are synonymous with cunning, small stature, cowardice, negligent physical prowess and other things considered un-Orky, the term 'grot' is used derisively between the larger Ork boyz, e.g. "Da' boss needs some real boyz to do this job, not you pack of grotz!"{{CME}}
===Types of Gretchin===
*[[Da Red Gobbo]] originally the head of the [[Angelis]]' separatist Gretchin faction known as the [[Gretchin Revolutionary Committee]].{{Fn|2}} His name and cause though have now been taken up by numerous Gretchin across the [[Galaxy]] and the legend of Da Red Gobbo is well known to the Ork species.{{Fn|22}}{{Fn|23}}
*[[Makari the Grot]] is thought to be the luckiest Gretchin ever, surviving for nine years before being sat on by his master, the notorious [[Goff]] [[Warboss]] [[Ghazghkull Thraka]] and subsequently fed to a [[Squig]].{{Fn|1}} However he is functionally immortal, as his soul is able to possess the body of any Gretchin that is touched by Thraka.{{Fn|24}}
*{{CMS}}[[Fixit]] is the Grot assistant of legendary Ork [[Mekboy]] [[Wazdakka Gutsmek]]. Wazdakka's warbike is kept clean and shiny by his Gretchin assistant.{{CMEFn|26}}
*[[Skumbo]] the [[Freebooter]] [[Kaptin]].{{Fn|12}}
*[[Weirdgrot]] [[Skrappaking Smolwyrd]]{{Fn|13}}
*{{Endn|24}}: [[Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! (Novel)]], Chapter 8
*{{Endn|25}}: [https://archive.ph/vYq1j Warhammer Community: Sunday Preview – The new edition of Warhammer Underworlds is nearly here] ''(Saved archive page, dated October 27 2024, last accessed 27 October 2024, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/zwm6kw8r/sunday-preview-the-new-edition-of-warhammer-underworlds-is-nearly-here/)''
*{{Endn|26}}: [[Codex: Orks (3rd Edition)]], pg. 44
*{{Endn|27}}: [[Brutal Kunnin (Novel)]] - ''You Call Dat a Landin'?
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