Murlocs

Let's start with a savage or semi-savage race.

I know just the one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOpdyytB3OY

The greenskins of the sea, well in numbers if not in temperament.

let's start the best part the shaping them.

My creation will be an omnivore amphibian species able to live in both salt and fresh water. they will live in the ocean, shorelines, rivers, lakes, and swamps. As I don't want them to swarm an try to conquer the landraces, I will make it so that they breathe through their skin and if they go a week without dipping into water it will dry out they will suffocate. it won't stop them from traveling inland if they are smart about it, but it is very unappealing to live far from a water source.

The Murloc is a metamorphosis species going through different life cycle stages. the Murloc's as a species are genderless that reproduce similarly to how ork do, an adult murloc has many ridges on its back, were eggs form. once they are finish forming they pop out and a new egg takes its place, adult murlocs keep forming eggs until the moment they die. the Murloc's metamorphosis life cycle stages do not correlate to any period of time rother to how much food is available, but how much food is available to fuel their growth it can take as little as 2 years to go from a tadpole to the adult stage to a few decades.

The Murloc hatch as a tadpole they most of their time eating and dodge predators until they reach the second stage where they grow into a fish like a creature to about the size of a human hand at which stage they are as smart as a raven and can plan and strategies on how to survive. the third stage they grow legs being similar to a Axolotl, with this change the prefer to leave open water and live on the ocean floor, shallows, swamps were they continue to grow until they have enough biomass they bury themselves in the mud and undergoes a metamorphosis into a young Murloc were it grows until human size the adult form. they never stop growing but it does slow down after they have been an adult for 30 years they be the size and strength of an ork and the size and strength of an ogre when they reach 70 years old with them shortly dying of old age at 80.

my children, there are many blessings that I give thee your hide and scales shell be the only armor you ever need it shell grow and harden as you do when you are young it be about the strength of the armor of man and when you are old it has the strength of armor only the elder race could create. I will as give the power of regeneration in a day all minor injuries like cuts and bruises will be heald, in a week all middle injuries will be heald and in a month even lost limbs will have grown back. I also give you witch sight so you and your kin may see the winds of magic, bodies are like rubber and anti-freeze blood so you can live in the crushing depths of the ocean and the frozen land of Naggaroth. I will also encode into you the utter hatred of all things tainted search out and destroy them, my children, but worry not for those corrupted will be rent infertile you shell have no dark reflections like the other race of this world that you will war with.

to help in your crusade against the dark I give my mage-priests three unique abilities on top of there normal magic, the first is based on the ork Waagh ability that allows the mage-priests to convey simple information to other murlocs miles, the more mage-priests the larger the area, this will make it easier to form hordes to attack enemies. second the waters of purification, the mage-priests conjure up water that purifies all corruption (deadly to chaos creatures), consecrates and it on the ground makes it very fertile (it can turn a corrupted wasteland into a garden paradise with enough time). the third is an attack spell that violently rips Dhar/chaos magic into the 8 winds of magic which also increases the amount of magic in an area for mages to use, it is useful for destroying dark magic items, killing undead/ dark wizards as it courses the amount of dark magic in their bodies to explode, but the most impressive is its detonation of warpstone. a mage-priest snipping a skaven armies stockpile can easy destroy (imagine the explosion is multi-colored) the army.

I god of water declare that Murloc's declare my work finished.

millions of Murloc eggs form in the oceans, lakes, swamps, and rivers.

go and claim your destiny