Blood Bowl has always been a part of our world. The sacred tablets of Lustria, old beyond all human reckoning, tell of a time when the world was young, when the mythical Old Ones and their servants, the Slann, introduced the worship of Nuffle – the god of violent sports – to the world. Millennia later, the hieroglyphs of ancient Nehekhara tell of a time when mighty heroes of the sport played and died, and were laid to rest in the grandest mausoleums their sponsors could contrive, there to live out eternity beside kings in a time before being raised from undeath to play once more. Ages later still, Blood Bowl would be re-discovered by mortals and go on to take over the world, ushering in an eternal age where wars would be fought not on muddy battlefields but on bloody astrogranite, to the entertainment of baying crowds the whole world over!