|Name=Ithaka{{PAGENAME}}|Segmentum=[[Segmentum Obscurus]]

|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]([[Iron Snakes]])|Class=[[Ocean World]]/, [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld]]

The water from its Ithaka's oceans is considered sacredare home to a variety of sea-life, and is carried by including the giant Water-Wyrms. A [[Kraretyer]], or mature male, can grow up to three hundred metres in length.{{Fn|1g}} The Chapter to anoint every planet that they step foot onuses these Wyrms for hunting exercises for its initiates{{Fn|1h}}, and in what is called the '''Rite of the Giving of Water'''judicial ritual known as [[oethanar]].{{Fn|1e1i}} When those marines return homeThese marine serpents can cause ''retyarion'' (or Wyrm-storm), what remains is given back ferocious squalls that seem to Ithakafollow their movements. A retyarion also causes ''seunenae'', called the folding walls of iron, giant waves that would rise out in the deep waters and come crashing in kilometres high.{{Fn|1f1j}}

Ithaka's oceans are home to a variety of sea-life, including the giant Water-Wyrms. A ===Iron Snakes===The [[Iron Snakes]] [[KraretyerSpace Marines]], or mature male, can grow up to three hundred metres in lengthrecruit from among the fierce hunting tribes which roam the archipelagos of Ithaka.{{Fn|1g2}} The Chapter uses these Wyrms for hunting exercises for water from its initiates{{Fn|1h}}oceans is considered sacred to the Iron Snakes, and is carried by the Chapter to anoint every planet that they step foot on, in what is called the '''Rite of the judicial ritual known as [[oethanar]]Giving of Water'''.{{Fn|1i1e}} These marine serpents can cause ''retyarion'' (or Wyrm-storm)When those marines return home, ferocious squalls that seem what remains is given back to follow their movements. A retyarion also causes ''seunenae'', called the folding walls of iron, giant waves that would rise out in the deep waters and come crashing in kilometres highIthaka.{{Fn|1j1f}}

{{Trivia}}*[[Wikipedia:Ithaca|Ithaca]], sometimes spelled Ithaka, is one of the Greek Islands. It is suspected, though not confirmed, to be the same [[Wikipedia:Homer's_Ithaca|Ithaca]] that [[Wikipedia:Odysseus|Odysseus]], the central character of Homer's [[Wikipedia:Odyssey|Odyssey]], was from.*Likewise, [[Wikipedia:Charybdis|Charybdis]], sometimes spelled Kharybdis, is a sea monster in Homer's Odyssey.

Likewise, ==See also==*[[Wikipedia:Charybdis|CharybdisPlanets (List)]], sometimes spelled Kharybdis, is a sea monster in Homer's Odyssey.

*1: [[Brothers of the Snake (Novel)]] by [[Dan Abnett]]