Born in the depths of the Amazonian jungle, Bassoon was kidnapped by slavers aged two months and whisked away to the arctic tundra.

Forced to carry blocks of ice to build the emperor penguin's giant igloos, Bassoon developed a tolerance to cold only rivalled by someone dosed up on Lemsip.

One day, during a slave revolt, the Emperor's egg-child fell from the top of the tallest igloo, tossed by a rebel hand.

Bassoon, instinctively, leapt across the icey waste, diving to his left, and caught the egg. But alas, it had cracked!

Out popped the young penguin imperial who, thrilled at being alive and not scrambled, order Bassoon be sent into the Blood Bowl team, where his natural skills and resistance to cold would come to the fore.