Those watching from the stands will call down challenges for the aspiring players to undertake. Each player does their utmost to show off their skills, strength, toughness, speed and sheer bloodthirstiness and, in so doing, impress one of the owners and earn themselves a spot on a team. What ensues is a mixture of Blood Bowl, gladiatorial combat and brutal violence in the name of the gods. The players are thrown the kit of the team they wish to try out for and divided into teams of six. Some sponsors also send representatives to the Crush, hoping to identify next season’s talent. The owners and staff of those teams seeking new players gaze down in judgment from terraces high above. Once inside, the supplicants find themselves on a special pitch sunk into the ground, in many respects resembling a gladiatorial pit. Only the fastest, toughest or most brutal make it through the portal into the temple beyond. Each of these arenas has but a single door, and when it opens to the sound of a whistle, the players surge forward in a mighty tide. The prospective players gather outside bespoke arenas made for the testing of would-be players. Now that the city has been rebuilt to some degree, the glorious game is back!įor most players, their career begins in ‘The Crush’, a regular ritual during which the owners of the Blood Bowl teams select would-be players for the coming season. It’s citizens from these Veins that now primarily make up the hopeful teams vying for recognition from a handful of coaches seeking glory and riches in the Blood Bowl scene.įollowing the Seige of Excelsis – the city spent a lot of its efforts in rebuilding the city, resulting in a break from Blood Bowl. Excelsis’s craftsmen decided to keep building anyway, making the city a labyrinthine network of alleyways called Veins. In more than thirty years, Excelsis’ borders were expanded and its population doubled until there was no space left for housing. Said fragments would allow their owners to see, if for a while, the future, hence why Excelsis is described as being rich in prophecy. The Spear of Mallus grew to be so important that the currency of Excelsis, Glimmerings, would be made solely from fragments of this stone. This stone allowed to see the future and help make the city rich and relevant. Excelsis was founded after the end of the Realmgate Wars, around the Spear of Mallus a fragment of the World-That-Was.
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