if youāve done Island Expeditions in BfA, you likely know that there are Saurok there. I wanted to take a brief look at them to see if there is anything of interest.
First of all, I donāt know if Iāve shared this image before, but on one of the queue windows for Island Expeditions, there are some maps with doodles on them. One of them is a Saurok:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/b/b6/Island_Expedition_Queue_Menu.jpg
Since linking images from wikiās is a bit wonky, assuming the above image doesnāt show properly, the image in question is the first image on the right here:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Island_Expedition
Itās just a neat little doodle of a Saurok I wanted to share.
Now, for Island Expeditions in general, there are two Saurok clans/tribes you encounter: The Slitherblade and the Mirelurk. Both tribes are really just there as jobbers for players to kill without much thought, but there is an interesting thing to them both.
First of all, the Mirelurk have Priests as a character class, as listed here:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Mirelurk
Which Iām guessing refers to this guy, granted he doesnāt appear to have any priest skills:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Mirelurk_Bog_Priest
As for the Slitherblade, something of interest does come from one of the members. First, a link to the clan in general:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Slitherblade_clan
And the guy of interest is here:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Slitherblade_Prophet
Specifically his attacks. He has three water attacks, which Saurok of other types and clans have, but he also has an artic orb attack, which is obviously a frost skill. Now, this guy isnāt a mage, but a prophet of some sort. I believe Iāve seen other Saurok use frost attacks of sorts, likely meant to be an annoying mook as oppose to anything to be analyzed in a manner Iām doing, but itās still interesting to see. Itās possible this guy is more meant as a Shaman, but I still wonder if the idea of Saurok being able to become mages, complete with water elementals and frost spells, isnāt too farfetched of an idea. I mean, if Orcs and Trolls can become mages, maybe Saurok could as well. Especially if we go with the idea of gaining intelligence and spell knowledge from looting Mogu artifacts.
The last part I wanted to ramble on would be the leaders of both clans. They say the same thing pretty much, but a couple of lines did catch my eye:
āRetreatā¦ to the waterā¦ā
āI returnā¦ to the wavesā¦ā
So why is this of interest? Well, first it seems like some Saurok may have an affinity to water, since the latter strikes me as a death quote for some of the leaders. It would be interesting to see if some Saurok worship the waters in some way, whether itās the water as a whole or possibly a water-related wild god of some kind. It could explain how some tribes are able to swim long distances in the ocean to travel in some way.
Which leads me to the second point, where we know Saurok are seafaring of some kind. We know a tribe managed to get past the mists around Pandaria, and these two also have managed to travel to islands, either to plunder or to live on. Thus, it isnāt out of the realm of impossibility that we could run into other tribes of Saurok that migrated off Pandaria to live elsewhere we havenāt discovered yet (something Iāve harped on a few times).
As I said before, these clans were put in for players to have something to beat up and likely werenāt meant for nerds like me to look at and type up paragraphs of text on. Still, there are some interesting aspects to them that I feel were worth noting for some Saurok culture ideas.
Also, regarding quotes from those two clans, I wouldnāt mind seeing a quote like this for a battle cry:
āI will feast on your flesh and gnaw on your bones!ā
Can you imagine a group of them rushing towards the Alliance shouting this? Iām sure it would be terrifying for them. 
More Saurok research to continue in the future! 
