Idoneth Deepkin

The Idoneth Deepkin are fucking awesome. They are fish elves who ride giant fish into battle, what’s not to love?

AHEM.

The Idoneth Deepkin are a new faction of Warhammer: Age of Sigmar and is composed of marine aelves and asorted sea fauna. As the previous writer said, they are rather awesome in their uncommon design and the creatures they bring. Also, elves riding sharks and eels. Yeah, sweet looking.

Fluff

After Teclis, Tyrion, Malerion, and Morathi made Slaanesh start shitting out elf souls, Teclis took the devout of Mathlann (the deceased elf good of the ocean) and taught these newborn aelves, the "Cythai", about the old world and their gods. However, they weren't exactly model elves: withdrawn, resentful and traumatised by their time within Slaanesh, Teclis wasn't thrilled with them. He tried to find what went wrong, but the Cythai weren't cooperative (Teclis' methods made some fall into madness, so they weren't exactly without reason) and fled into the oceans of the Mortal Realms. Teclis, being a dick tried to exterminate them for good measure, but his brother Tyrion convinced him of letting them go.

The elves, now the ‘Idoneth’ quickly found that their souls were weak and only one in a hundred survived past infancy. It took a while but eventually the Idoneth found that if you kill someone and put their soul into an elf, they won't die prematurely (but depending of the origin of the soul, this only delays the unavoidable). So they started to do exacly that to other people. At firts it was only for survivial, but later they did it for the expansion of their newly found enclaves. At first it was only one in Hysh, but after the discovery of the Whirlways, whirlpools that work as underwater Realmgates; differences among the Cytharai and a growing population; they expanded to all Mortal Realms save Azyr and founded several enclaves in all of them.

The Idoneth becames quite the hikkikomori: betrayed by their creator, forced into bad habits for survival and hated by many; they thought that they didn't need the surface world and limited themselves to the oceans, leaving only for raiding souls. However, not even their swift raids, their memory-changing magics or their ruthless fooled everyone. Sigmar suspected that something were in the oceans, while Alarielle outright went to battle aganist them. After torturing a Keeper of Secrets whose warband was destroyed by them into spilling the beans, Archaon confirmed his suspicions that there were more aelves that would seem. And after the accidentral drainage of a sea (How the hell do you drain a sea "accidentally"?!) by the Skaven (...oh, THAT's how.) Nagash caught not only their existence, but also their soul-stealing practices.

The Idoneth society is divided in three clear castes. First we have the Namarti, composed of those 90% of Idoneth who were born wth imcomplete souls, extremely pale skin, short lifespan (for and aelf anyway, they may still live more that us puny humans) and without eyes that are the majority of the population and are the workforce. Then we have the lucky 10% dudes that were born with complete souls (aka, average aelves): the Akhelians, the warrior caste and those who ride the sweet-looking eels, sharks, Deepmares and Leviadons; and the Isharann, that are the magic users and priests. However, the first ones amog all of them were the Cytharai which due to accidents, wars or other sheanigans almost died out save the exception of the High King of the Deep Volturnos who is still alive after millenia.

One of the more weird phenomena that happens around these guys on land is the so-called Ethersea. This is a manifestation of their marine magic, taking the form af a mist that enables them to use their superior sea-faring habilities and allow their sea beasts to survive where there's no water in miles. The Ethersea also have the secondary effect that it manipulates the land and makes it gain deep-sea characteristics spontaneously, like shipwhrecks, choral, fish shoals to start running freely, bubble breath...

They have a kind of a issue with Nagash. You see, Nagash is kind of territorial in regards of the dead, so as they are stealing souls to save themselves, he's not happy with that (read: really hates these guys). So much so that he’s emptying an entire ocean just to make sure he can stamp them out because he’s the only guy who believes himself to be allowed to have dead souls.

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  WE'RE RIDING A SHARK! WE'RE RIDING A SHARK! SUCK OUR DICKS, WE'RE RIDING A SHARK!