The Arcane Pact's ships now all had Naga escorts, and the compensation was fairly generous. For the Naga, escort duty was practically a basic skill, like taking a leisurely swim through the sea, while the Tidal Temple established on Shalandis Isle had almost become the acknowledged home of the Naga under Vashj's command.
The Naga lived miserable lives, truly miserable. Even setting aside things like magical energy and considering food alone, they were not doing well.
The oceans held endless treasures? The sea's resources were inexhaustible? But for the Naga, with their low productivity, although the sea gave them the best shelter and left all the land races helpless against them, it also restricted the areas where they could operate.
For the Naga, both their food sources and their living space were largely concentrated in shallow waters. Most of their food consisted of shellfish, crabs, and fish, creatures that did not live in the deep sea. The number of deep-sea animals decreased with depth. The deeper the sea, the fewer marine animals there were, and the Naga could not survive in the deep sea for long.
And that did not even account for the deadly cold and water pressure in the deep sea. Azeroth was a magical world, so magic might be able to counter the temperature, but what about the pressure? Although Azeroth's atmospheric pressure was unknown, the Naga clearly did not live in the deep sea.
Almost all Naga lived like nomads, staying here for a while, then there for a while, migrating along with the ocean's fish stocks. Nor did each area have clearly demarcated boundaries like the kingdoms on land. If an area had limited fish stocks and new Naga migrated there, or if two Naga tribes took a liking to the same place at the