Art was granted his lifelong dream of being a pro bloodbowl player by the "Make a Deathwish" foundation when he was diagnosed with a terminal case of toxic streptococcal hemmoraging commonly known as "rat scratch fever".

The Make a Deathwish foundation gives Old World residents doomed to die in particularly nasty ways a chance to die their "dream" death. Whether the lucky winners want to be killed instantly and painlessly by the breath of a plasmohydra, get snuck into Naggaroth during Witch Elf rutting season, or be made a starter on a professional Bloodbowl team the Make a Deathwish Foundation does it best to accomodate its clients.

Since Art Plaguemonk does not have long to live and has no living relatives known to him he donates his entire salary from playing for the Maulrats to researchers dedicated to studying rat scratch fever and maybe someday finding a way to spread it to other races.