Skarteef is from the planet of Shillion in the Segmentum Ultimus. As a young nob, Skarteef choose to prove himself to the other nobs of the tribe by going on a hunt for a well known, dangerous wild boar with just his huge choppa, no shooty stuff. He tracked the boar down and charged the beast. After a close fight he emerged victorious but missing the whole of his lower jaw. Upon his return to the camp he was turned away from the docs for not having any teeth to pay. After knocking out the doc and taking his teeth he paid the tribes mad doc to attach the boar's tusks to a new metal jaw.

The local PDF became aware of the small Ork camp and sent several squads of guardsmen backed up by a Leman Russ to destroy them, the fight was going badly for the Orks until Skarteef charged the tank with several found stikkbombs attached to a log. The resulting explosion threw the Ork back several dozen feet but destroyed the tank. After this mighty feat the battle was won and Skarteef rose to become the new Warboss. He was given the nickname "Skarteef, the Monstrous" after the local town discovered he had stolen a pole from an important Zebra crossing for the local school to create a new and improved stikkbomb lance.

After becoming Warboss, Skarteef moved his tribe closer to the nearest big human settlement to hunt "umies. After several raids the locals paid a Ogryn bounty hunter to remove the Ork. Skarteef saw the Ogryn on the next raid and charged wanting the glory of the kill for himself. The Ogryn was a good fight and cost Skarteef his right eye but luckily he had another one, he flayed the Ogryns skin and now has it proudly displayed atop his Rhinox "Thunderstomp". Thunderstomp is the biggest Rhinox on the planet of Shillon which lead Skarteef to track and capture the beast as his war mount. The snakes in the new area proved to be disappointingly poisonous so he had some really dangerous ones collected from their old camp and now wears then round his waist to keep his poison levels up.