Fiction:Mhlarm Society

The Mhlarm Society, aka known as the Mhlarm or Mhlarm murlocs, is a community consisting of multiple 'tribe'. The Mhlarm are scientifically seen Murlocs, but they reject that name in favor for 'Mhlarm'.

Society
The Mhlarm Society, aka known as the Mhlarm or Mhlarm murlocs, is a community consisting of multiple crawls, the Mhlarm equivalent of 'tribe' or 'clan'. A 'crawl' is a specialised group of murlocs which travel across their planets, learning as much they can to perfect their craft.

Genetics
The Mhlarm officially are called Murlocs, but they rejected this named in favor for a name that seperated them from other Murlocs. The difference at first was merely ideological. The Mhlarm wished to seek perfection by restarting their society, rediscovering and cataloging all they saw to correct flaws that were present in their society. Such a radical change wasn't acceptable by the Murloc empire, which lead to a small civil war which isolated the Mhlarm from the rest of the Murloc. Seeing their chance, they immediately reverted back to a primitive life, leaving not so much as a single space-gopher in one piece. Since then, the Mhlarm have sought perfection in everything, including breeding. As such, they no longer are biologicall the same as the murlocs, even though they haven't alienated enough to prevent interbreeding.

Culture
The Mhlarm believe that their ancestors live amongst them to help perfect their race, even after death. The ancestors are wise and should be headed. The Mhlarm believe that totems can indirectly reconnect the ancestors and the living. In fact, the Mhlarm believe that totems are their ancestors, much like their crafts and perfection are the ancestors. By making clothing themselves as living totems, they try to be influenced by the ancestors.