Guap was a gray goblin, so that was already against him. Grays like Guap were known for their lack of intelligence, their selfishness, general cannibalism and criminal enterprises. They were the goblin breed that all the other goblin breeds groaned about. That was until the Isle of Rain off the eastern coast gave rise to the Rain Grays, as they became called. They were a calculating tribe, much higher intelligence and more cohesive than even some of the Red tribes. They ran guerilla operations on some of the eastern coastal red villages and towns and even went underground at a few points in time to raid the greens.
He was just a young gob when he was drafted into the raiders. He had an appetite for violence that was unmatched, and was cunning at developing strategies to circumvent walls, fortresses, defensive lines and even traps that the enemy laid out to deter the raids. Once, after a particularly nasty battle, Guap stayed up all night while his boys were asleep and enlisted a group of scrawny fatdogs to dig a 20 foot hole in the ground in the forest outside Fredstown. Guap then fed a dead Red to the fatdogs to get them out of the hole, and then began using dynamite and fuckrockets to clear a 300 yard tunnel underneath the town, completely avoiding the trench and guard towers designed to repel them.
The hole came up underneath the town armory, which was full of goosegas canisters and artillery, as well as several racks of blundies. Realizing where he had entered, Guap carried almost all of the blundies out through the tunnel and back to their camp. Grays were not intelligent enough to craft blundies themselves. They mostly stuck to daggers, swords, and spears - sometimes with or without explosives - but these blundies could give his boys a competitive edge in the fight, especially if they took arms away from the Reds in Fredstown. Grays didn't really understand goosegas or harvest it. In fact, usually when a gray found some, they would try to drink it and then promptly die.
By morning, almost all of the blundies were in gray claws. There was much jubilation and also some intentional and non-intentional friendly fire. Three dead by mid-morning. The massive hole underneath Fredstown was then loaded with almost all of their explosives and linked to the goosegas cannisters. When the explosion went off, almost the entire town was immediately incinerated and vaporized - also some were vaporized and then incinerated, which is a little different. It created a green and red mushroom cloud that was probably visible all the way back at the Isle of Rain. This successful operation at Fredstown was the beginning of the rise of Guap and gained him the respect of the local graylord, and all his boys in the trench with him that morning.