Greenskin

Greenskins is a common collective description for the forces of the Orcs, Trolls and Goblins and other biologically related races. The broadest division is between the Orcs, who are strong, brutish, and savage warriors, and the Goblins, who are smaller and weaker, but cunning and full of guile. These three related races are divided in countless barbaric tribes who fight each other nearly all the time. They only stop fighting each other to fight another foe instead, like the kingdoms of men or the realms of Dwarfs. On these rare occasions they often vanquish and destroy whole armies, plunder and burn villages, ravage the countryside, and sack, raze, or conquer large cities and fortresses. Of these tribes though the Orcs have the most powerful kingdom in the form of Emblam, while the Trolls control several large kingdoms, and the Goblins are a more nomadic race conserned more with personal greed to actually form an effective kingdom.

High Orcs
See Also : High Orcs, Emblam

High Orcs that have come to dominate the Orcish Empire of Emblam, which controls a large percent of Africanas. Through Emblam the Orcs have come to spread throughout the world, and they have invaded Europe following the Fall of Hispania, and Orcs alligned with the Dark Lord Sauron dominate the large kingdom of Mordor in Central Europe.

Low Orcs
See Also : Low Orcs

The Second Grouping of Orcs is the Low Orcs or the savage Orcs, and these are Orcs that have come to live in extremely hot conditions which has adversly affected their brains and turned them into extremely ferel creatures.

Black Orcs
See Also : Black Orcs

The Third group is the Black Orcs which are numerous in the lands of the Chaos Dwarves, and in sections of Eastern Europe most noteably in Croatia where they dominate large groups of Goblins.

Goblins
Main Article : Goblins

Goblins are an important part of the Greenskin hordes. They are smaller than men, about as tall as a Dwarf but wiry and have long, bony fingers with sharp claws. They have green skin, pointy ears, lots of sharp and pointy teeth, and red glowing eyes. They have unpleasant and shrill voices, and a childish and cruel sense of humour.

Goblins like to live in large groups and tend to be quite a cruel, sneaky, cowardly, and untrustworthy lot who like to attack with superiors numbers and, if possible, from a distance. As such they are good archers but rather poor fighters. They steal or loot anything they can from anyone and destroy anything they can't carry just for the fun of it.

Forest Goblins
See Also : Goblins

Forest Goblins are a breed of Goblins who live in the forests. Divided in several tribes and hidden in deep forests, Forest Goblins are always eager to raid and pillage isolated farms, villages, and sometimes even cities. They decorate themselves with large colourful feathers, which are used in certain combinations to distinguish tribesmen from foreigners. They also use warpaints, bones, and teeth as decoration. As metal ores are lacking in the forests, Forest Goblins usually wield weapons made of wood, bone, and rock. Some weapons and armours made of iron or steel might be traded and bartered from other Goblin or even Orc tribes.

Spiders have a very important role in the culture and daily life of the tribes. Small and succulent Spiders are eaten, while others are kept as pets. Large horse-sized spiders are ridden as warmounts and small poisonous spiders are used by the tribal shamans. A shaman will put these spiders inside his mouth so that the spiders bite him on the tongue. The poisons will drive the shaman a bit mad but also stimulate the part of his brain that controls magic.

While all other Greenskin tribes worship the twin gods Gork & Mork the Forest Goblins are known to also worship the Spider, and to adore the forests spiders as gods of the forest.

Night Goblins
See Also : Night Goblins

Night Goblins are a Goblin sub breed, they live inside the mountains of the Old World. Night Goblins dress predominately in black, and will only come out into the sunlight when they are suitably reinforced by considerable amounts of fungusbeer. They spend the majority of their time fighting each other, Dwarfs, and/or Skaven, as all three species compete for the same territories. The Night Goblins have had considerable success in their battles with the Dwarfs, having even conquered a portion of Karak Eight Peaks, the most ancient and awe inspiring Dwarf city.

The Night Goblins make extensive use of Squigs in battle, being one of the few creatures beneath the World Edge Mountains whom the goblins can tame (somewhat) effectively. These squigs are either herded towards the enemy, or in the case of the most hard-case gobbos, ridden into battle. Night goblins that have drunk the infamous fungus beer become abnormally strong and lug into battle a huge ball and chain, these madcap goblins are called Night Goblin Fanatics.

Trolls
Main Article : Trolls

Forest Troll
See Also : Forest Troll, Amani

Jungle Troll
See Also : Jungle Troll, Gerubishi

Ice Troll
See Also : Ice Troll