Tethis the water troll describes two worlds. Bathys, the world he comes from on which the water trolls lived in three large oceans on the disc, and hunted on land using sail-powered land yachts - Tethis was blown off the edge. The other, noted by ATDrake, was the world made of the dragon, covered in snow and glaciers and holding its tail in its mouth. There is
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