The murloc tribes on the East Sea's western shore had no intention of waging an all-out war against the Odyssey City-State.
The Deep Water Bombs were only meant to deter the murlocs from attacking the city. They didn't affect the murlocs' celebrations outside the town.
Not being able to attack the city only meant missing out on one activity. The murlocs could live with that.
Under the threat of the Deep Water Bombs, the murlocs returned to the villages submerged by the flood to hunt for treasures and share the prey that had drowned.
"So the murlocs on the West Sea's coast are natives of the lower reaches of the Odyssey. No wonder they insist on migrating upriver during the rainy season."
Relying entirely on the Azure Wave Dragon wasn't ideal. While developing underwater Alchemical Weapons for the Alchemy Warship, Medivh also intended to establish an underwater skeleton army.
During the rainy season, Medivh had his skeletal attendants dig out high-year bones collected from the Odyssey Region, the Sandbar Plains, and the offshore waters along the west coast. He used them to forge and revive murloc skeletons.
From the fragmented knowledge in the Red Bone and Yellow Bone murlocs, he learned a great deal of history.
A thousand years ago, the rainy season in the Odyssey Region had lasted longer, and rainfall had been more frequent. The middle and lower reaches had been covered in rainforest, and the murloc tribes on the West Sea's coast had been natives of the Odyssey rainforest.
As the climate changed and rainfall decreased, the rainforest steadily shrank. The Jungle Murlocs migrated east and settled in the last stretch of rainforest in the lower reaches.
As the rainforest receded, vast tracts of fertile land were exposed. The Gevot People set their sights on the Odyssey