Zrug

Zrug is the leader of the Redtop goblin tribe and a master demolitionist.
== Description ==
Zrug is slightly taller than the average goblin at a height of 4'11" and is what is called a goblinate, or a goblin that was raised by non-goblins. He wears artificer-grade leather and scale piecemeal armor that he himself crafted for purpose. His leather cap and goggles were granted him when he served in Ordris' Navy as a cannoneer. He keeps a number of different tools and gadgets on his person, mostly on his belt. 
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Zrug was an orphan and was adopted by a fireworks maker in the city of Ordris and taught the craft until a time came when the city's army recruiters came into the city looking for capable volunteers to aid in the defense efforts on the island's western coast. Zrug volunteered. Zrug's skill with black powder was quickly noted and he was made a member of the Ordris Navy as a cannoneer. 
=== Time on the Ill-Fated Omen ===
Zrug served on the naval vessel known as the Ill-Fated Omen. The ship was drawn inland during an exceptionally heavy rain and flooding season that led the craft to be lodged in one of the great trees in the jungles of Illapa around Lake Ordris. They sat over an ancient ruin of the early civilization of the island. For a long time, the crew attempted to escape the jungle and find its way back to some form of civilization, but all of the ship's crew save Zrug met their end due to some hazard or predatory beast. Zrug kept to the ship and used the stores of black powder to form defenses. 
=== Redtop Goblins ===
The tribe of goblins known as the Redtops are a hunter-gatherer people who move about the forests and jungles of northern coast of Ordris Island, hunting things like displacer beasts and girallons with their high-powered crossbows. They stumbled upon the Ill-Fated Omen and met with Zrug, who very quickly persuaded the tribe that he was not only one of them, but he was in fact their leader. The leader of the tribe at the time, a mighty hobgoblin, conceded leadership to Zrug when the goblin cannoneer smashed a tree to splinters with the force of his black powder bombs. He learned that they came seeking to destroy a religiously important shrine inside the ruins.
=== Current ===
Over the past year, Zrug has helped the Redtops make the Ill-Fated Omen their home. In recent days, a large number of interlopers have entered into the ruins of the Tomb of the Herald of Storms and they have worked to defend themselves and their home from them. They have yet to find the shrine to destroy and Zrug has made an agreement with the League of Restoration that if they find it they will allow him to blow it up with his explosives.
== Trivia ==
Zrug's art design was based on a cosplayer who made a steampunk version of the Green Goblin from the Spider-Man series of comics.