The Orelans

The Orelans are a subspecies of rock-like creatures who plan to take over the Overworld with the help of the Wormlings.

Appearance
The Orelans are a race of rock people with buzzcuts, ponytails or mullets that are made of stone. As such, they are quite slow and often require their ability to turn into boulders for movement. The Orelans lived in Stonefish Caves and disguise as stone, which is possibly their only useful trait. Other than that, Orelans are pretty weak offense-wise, but are great defense-wise. They use ink guns made of rock to kill enemies.

Before they were killed off in the Great Turf Wars, the Orelans came in different variations such as Orelans with humanoid bodies, giant monsters made of rock, bulky, stumpy Orelans, Orelings with no legs and, instead, have a snail-like foot and eyestalks, and very muscular Orelings with skinny legs. Much like the Octarians, they have classification names, though their standard species name is 'Orelan' (the Orelans with the human-like bodies are the Orelings, giant rock monsters are Giant Orelans, the bulky, stumpy Orelings are Oretanks, the slug-like Orelings are Oreslugs and the muscular Orelings are Rockroughs). However, since the Orelans were killed off in the Great Turf Wars, only King Gold and a small amount of Oretanks and Orelings exist, being the last of the Orelans (King Gold, who is an Oreling, two Orelings, two Oretanks and a Rockrough were seen entering a tunnel passage after you defeat King Gold and his guards Rocky and Stoneson in the Singleplayer campaign).

Mentioned before, Orelans can turn into boulders. They are much faster in this form and can deal much more damage. If damaged too much, they turn into gravel and retreat. They reform after a few hours. In boulder form, they are also much stronger and can use their strength to slam into enemies. Only Orelings and Oretanks can turn into boulders.

Orelan Variants

 * Orelings
 * Oretanks
 * Oreslugs
 * Rockroughs
 * Giant Orelans

Orelan Bosses

 * Magma (a Giant Orelan way bigger than a standard Giant Orelan)
 * Living Volcano (a living volcano who is apparently an Orelan)
 * Rollout (an unexplainably giant Oreling/Oretank that is stuck in boulder form)
 * Stone Serpent (a serpentine made of stone (only in The Worm Rebellion))
 * King Gold (leader of the Orelans, defended by Rocky and Stoneson, two Orelings)

Diet
Orelans have a diet of meat, making them carnivores. They mostly eat rat and bat meat but may occasionally meat from animals from the surface or fish from small rivers in Stonefish Caves.

Culture
Not much is known about the Orelans' culture since they're nocturnal and that they live under, rarely coming to the surface at night to examine the world around them. Most of the time, they're in their boulder form underground, sleeping (this only applies for Orelings and Oretanks).

What is known is that they are a Nazi-esc race, having a pure hatred for the Inklings. They live under the rule of a dictator and they usually follow the dictator's every order. The Orelans are war machines and are very good at combat because of training everyday they aren't on the battlefield. Other than that, not much is known about them.

Backstory
Much like how rising waters chased the Inklings and Octarians (which were squids and octopi at the time) onto land, the Orelans, which were silverfish at the time, were chased very deep underground due to many floods and rainstorms. At that time, they evolved into humanoid silverfish. Somehow, after years of genetic errors due to living underground for so long, two stone-like creatures were birthed. They then mated, creating the Orelans we know today.

Years later, the Orelans decided to go to the surface, coming across the Inklings and Octarians, who, for some reason, hated the Orelans. But ongoing wars with both the Inklings and Octarians caused a great decrease in the Orelans but soon recovered and retreated. They then continued to live underground from that point forward. They then wanted to take over the surface and were at war with many of the races that lived above and below the surface from that point forward.

Late in the future, the Orelans, led by the new leader King Gold and the help of the enslaved Wormlings, they destroyed the many opposing Wormling Villages and killed many of the Wormlings living there. The remaining ones not killed by the remorseless Orelana or the Wormlings were killed by fires and crushed by rubble or rock. The Orelans explained they only did it because they said the opposing Wormlings "got in the way". This happened a few years after the large decrease in Orelans, when the Orelans were weaker.

Later on, after the great decrease in Orelans happened, the Orelans went back to the surface to fight back, killing off quite a few Inklings and Octarians, mainly with the help of the enslaved Wormlings. Their leader, King Gold, stayed in his kingdom underground, occasionally leaving to watch the battle ensue. His right and left-hand men, Rocky and Stoneson, two Oreling Brothers, defending him everywhere he went. Soon, an Inkling (you) attacked the Orelan armies and defeated the Orelans once and for all, killing a large amount of King Gold's army. However, he and a small amount of Orelans escaped and lived the rest of their days deep underground, swearing revenge on the Inklings.

Relationships
While they are enemies with almost every race in the Splatoon universe, they have been shown to start an alliance with a race and soon betray said race. Other than that, they don't really have any allies and have lots of enemies.


 * Inklings: The Inklings are their worst enemies. They have hated the Inklings since the beginning of the Great Turf Wars. The Orelans mostly focused on the Inklings in battle.
 * Octarians: While the Orelans hate the Octarians, they still respect them and helped them kill a number of Inklings. However, when they ally with the Octarians, they often betray them.
 * Wormlings: They hate the Wormlings almost as much as the Inklings. They enslaved multiple amounts of the Wormlings and killed hundreds of their kind who get in their way.
 * Pinchlers: While the Pinchlers have no idea wha the Orelans are, the Orelans have captured a few Pinchlers on the mission Captured in Batte.

Trivia

 * King Gold is the new leader of the Orelans after Rocksimus Stone the II.
 * Rocksimus Stone is a pun on Optimus Prime, rock and stone.
 * After the Great Turf Wars, the Orelans were the rarest types of race ever, with there being six existing.
 * As seen on the Sunken Scrolls, the Orelans' ancestors apparently owned killer bats and rats as pets. Further into the future, they ditched this and instead enslaved the Wormlings.
 * The Orelans evolved from silverfish. Despite this, they don't resemble silverfish.
 * However, some Orelings have a silverfish tail-like ponytail on the back of his head.
 * The Orelans wanted to take over the Overworld for little to no reason.
 * It's possible they did this because they were tired of living underground.
 * The Oretanks' body shape resembles the Stonies from Banjo Tooie.
 * If any variant of Orelan enters water, they sink to the bottom. However, they do not die.