Mad Dok Grotsnik

Ork Painboyz already occupy a strange role in greenskin society, serving as combination doctors, surgeons, and enthusiastic experimenters who patch up wounded Orks using tools and techniques that would horrify any Imperial physician. Mad Dok Grotsnik takes this Painboy tradition to an extreme even his own kind consider excessive, treating every wound, whether on a patient or on himself, as an invitation to try something new and probably unnecessary.

Grotsnik's reputation rests on his habit of testing his most questionable procedures on his own body first, a practice that has left him stitched together from so many replacement parts and bionic additions that it is genuinely unclear how much of his original self remains. Rather than viewing this as a problem, Grotsnik treats his own patchwork existence as an ongoing professional triumph, proof that a sufficiently dedicated Dok can survive nearly anything with enough scrap metal and confidence.

Surgery as Entertainment[edit]

Other Orks approach Grotsnik's operating table with a mixture of trust and genuine terror, aware that his fixes work more often than not but that his methods rarely resemble anything a patient requested. Grotsnik cheerfully ignores this reputation, finding far more satisfaction in the act of cutting, replacing, and improving than in whether his patients particularly wanted the improvements he had in mind, and Ork warbands lucky enough to have him nearby have benefited from restored fighters that no other Dok could have saved.