I doubt murlocs get much sympathy in Azeroth these days. We've all spent a bit too much time running back to a corpse on some godforsaken beach because Murphy McMrrgggllton decided to take a vacation at 20% health and returned with four of his closest friends.

However, you've got to feel a little sorry for the mother murloc in this picture, taken by Mermuhanii of the beta server Lich King. Her murloclings have turned on her, and she's suffered the same fate as many adventurers before her. But what? Maybe she was an abusive mother, hitting her babies with that flaming trident. Or murlocs might devour their mother after they're born, like nematodes. Either way, there's one less murloc in the world (or four more murlocs, depending on how you look at it.)

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