A Bretonnian by birth, Marcel is a relatively fresh corpse. He was killed by a falling roof in a taven. Since the fire that made the roof fall was caused by Sclerosis Steve, he offered to make it up to Basconne by offering him a place in the team. Well, if it didn't turn out that Mercel was a part-time Blood Bowler! Happy to have a purpose in, for the sake of argument, life, he accepted.