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| A dragon's hoard, a traveller's coin. I inspire war and adventure too, forge peace and help strangers rejoin. Some I corrupt, while others remain true. What am I?
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Gold
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| A fool’s eye I may catch, though riches don’t follow. While I won’t bring you fame, I have my use all the same. What am I?
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Fool's Gold
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| A home for some, or found within a home, I travel both through water and on land, what am I?
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Scenic Crab
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A paragon of order, a shining actualizer.
With a swiftness unmatched, balance shall be struck.
What am I?
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Vaer
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A salty breeze
Briskly enters your purview
Of sea life and death it pleases
The great deity's pew
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A study of me is a study of the sea
The life that brews in the depths
A world of academia
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Marine Biology
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A swirl of dust settles into a cluster
Inside of the unwilling trap
Forming into a treasure
Coveted by most across the map
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Pearl
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| As bright as the sun though cold to the touch, many desire me but few will find me. What am I?
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Gold
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Calm eyes, but howling song
I shriek across land and sea
Carving a path
I go where I please
What am I?
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Hurricane
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Deep beneath the waves, upon beds of coral
A brightness blooms, too great to be natural
The serene golden hue, bathes the reef's blue
Into a pocket of soft teal, twinkling with activity
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Vaer Reef
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Effortless and graceful my exterior
With a pointedly sharp interior
My eyes are not decieved by the devious
They seek truth and compassion in hiding
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Clione?
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Forging steel, feasts of meat,
I'm harnessed for a deadly heat.
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Fire
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I am a vast filter, breathing in nutrition
My song resonates in the deep
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Whales
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I am the devil of children's songs
The many teethed gnasher of unsuspecting fools
And yet I am just a part of this watery world
Simply living as I am, never halting
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Shark
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| I am scarce in the sea, carrying that which sustains life up through the depths, rhythmically with the tides.
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Plants
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| I bring colours to the depths, exploring slowly on my stomach; I come in many shapes and sizes, what am I?
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Sea Slug
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| I can be a home for one, a finder's treasure, or scatter into a thousand grains. What am I?
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Shell
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I cannot survive where I call home
Without the help of my ingenuity
Above my head is a dome
Mirrored by my abode
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Olievar
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| I carry flora and fauna alike, essential for life, yet also deadly for those not ready.
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Current
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I feel with my body, my thoughts unknown to all.
The ocean is my cloak, to which my skin reacts.
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Octopus or Squid
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I have always been here
Watching over disorder
Silently brewing balance
My great scales stretch from coast to coast
A single flick of my tail will change the tides
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Vaer
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| I have many legs, but none that would support my weight on land, what am I?
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Octopus or Squid
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I have many legs that appear upon the sky's wrath
Upwards they lift, sending souls to their doom.
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Kraken
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I look not like what I am
Swimming quietly in place
Nothing like the steed I resemble on land
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Seahorse
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| I open and I close, I dance and I twirl, but I am rooted to one place. What am I?
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Sea Anemone
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I run in channels throughout the world,
Sending life, warmth, and cold into regions unknown
Seek me out for quick passage, nutrients, and life
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Water
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| I sway and float with the tides in which I live, many recoil from my touch but for others I am a delicious treat. What am I?
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Seaweed
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| I sway with the moon, hold secrets untold. Many meet me but few truly know me. What am I?
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Ocean
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| I'm so tiny that I am nearly invisible, yet I am food for even the largest of creatures depend on me. What am I?
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Plankton
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Let me pull you deep below
Under the ocean's endless gown
Wonder and beauty, life aglow
Hold your breath and do not drown
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Current
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Many an intrepid explorer tries me, eager to uncover the mysteries of the depths.
Without a steeled heart however, most will succumb to existential fear.
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Deep Ocean?
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Master me, or drown in the depths
The alternative options are limited
I allow for freedom and life where there is no air
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Diving
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| My breath sustains life. My lungs are heated by a great core. I create and expel land if the heat rises too abruptly.
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Volcano
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My dastardly deeds will astound you
All will sing of my tales
Great glory I seek in the deep blue
Through pride and peril I'll prevail
Follow my path or find my wrath
Awaiting you in the sea
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Wras
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My life is suspended on the vitality of another
My brethren and I create a cluster, thriving to the chagrin of that whom we depend upon
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Barnacles
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My name sounds like the pitter patter of rain
A sound you'll never hear in my world
A deep gloom surrounds me
Disguising my benevolent heart
I know not of my own goodness
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Pyrifera
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My tendrils sway in the currents
Reaching ever upwards amongst the rocks
Most are caught in my trap
Never to escape
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Anemone
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Once above, now below.
I used to travel long, long ago.
Purpose lost, though purpose gained.
I may hide treasures to be obtained.
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Shipwreck
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Oh weary sailor,
Let me sing you a tune
Join me in the depths
Scales illuminated by the moon
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Siren
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Round and round I wind
Boats like toys sway in waves
As I slither by beneath
Those above remain blind
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Eels
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Rosy, glistening, sweet
I am only a mimic of my namesake
I can be crunched or melted on the tongue
Brittle are my bones, but a rare treat!
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Sea Cockroach (Lobster)
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Softly I balloon out, carried by the current
My movements can be mistaken for the tide's rhytm
But I am very much alive, and neverending
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Jellyfish
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The world below ours, is but a stone's toss away
But without a special set of lungs, we cannot live here
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Ocean
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Through my inner chambers
Shaped like a spiral lung
You can hear the soft breathing of the wind
Harkening to the ocean's cries
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Conch Seashell
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Through time and tides, my once jagged body is shaped.
My layers and history can be seen at a glance.
My rounded form betrays the years of my wandering.
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Metamorphic Rock
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Unrelenting, patient as a stargazer.
I plan for the equilibrium of my world.
I give no quarter to those who create imbalance.
I will find you, you of impertinence.
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Vaer
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Up close I am made of many tiny shells and stones,
From a distance you cannot tell one of me from another
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Sand
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| We appear in many shapes and sizes, in the sea we are disguised in the shape of fish. What are we?
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Mammals?
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We are not lawless,
We simply live by our own rules,
Governed by the ocean,
Loyal unto ourselves only
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Pirates
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With red fins, and small quick steps
I traverse the comfort of familiarity
Questioning the great beyond
Challenging small enmities
Wise and sagely in classroom pretend
Young and curious are my real strengths
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Poe
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You may think I am made of rock,
But I am alive and made of many different things,
I look very beautiful but I am delicate despite my strength
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Coral
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