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Ithaka's oceans are home to a variety of sea-life, including the giant Water-Wyrms. A ''Kraretyer'', or mature male, can grow up to three hundred metres in length<sup>1g</sup>. The Chapter uses these Wyrms for hunting exercises for its initiates<sup>1h</sup>, and in the judicial ritual known as [[oethanar]]<sup>1i</sup>. These marine serpents can cause ''retyarion'' (or Wyrm-storm), ferocious squalls that seem 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 high<sup>1j</sup>.
==Trivia==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca Ithaca], sometimes spelled Ithaka, is an island that is a part of Greece. It is suspected, though not confirmed, to be the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Ithaca Ithaca] that Homer's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus Odysseus], the central character of Homer's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey Odyssey] was from.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_and_Charybdis Charybdis] was one of the obstacles Odysseus had to face on his journey home.
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