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{{SpaceMarinesPortal}}'''Ithaka''' (also called the '''Cradle of Snakes''') is an [[Ocean World]] and the [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld]] of the [[Iron Snakes]] [[Space Marines]] [[Chapter]].{{Fn|1a}} The chapter's [[Fortress-monastery]] occupies Ithaka's orbiting moon of [[Karybdis]].{{Fn|1b}}

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.{{Fn|1g}} The Chapter uses these Wyrms for hunting exercises for its initiates{{Fn|1h}}, and in the judicial ritual known as [[oethanar]].{{Fn|1i}} 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.{{Fn|1j}}

[[Wikipedia:Ithaca|Ithaca]], sometimes spelled Ithaka, is an island that is a part one of Greecethe 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.