Spillins

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Spillins is a fictional character from the Edge Chronicles, a series of books written by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart. Spillins is an oakelf who keeps watch on Wind Jackal's ship, The Galerider.

Although Spillins appears in only one book, The Clash of the Sky Galleons, he is the longest-standing member of Wind Jackal's crew. When the captain dies, he has to draw out the shryke teeth to decide who will be the new captain.

Oakelves are able to see other people's auras which plays an important part in the story. Quint has a good blue aura, while the aura of his father, Wind Jackal (driven mad in his attempts to catch and kill his treacherous quartermaster Turbot Smeal), is a poisonous shade of green. Thaw Daggerslash, has changing auras: an ambitious purple at the start and then a hideous, boiling red when he learns that Quint has been selected as the new captain of the Galerider.

Spillins does not die in the Clash of the Sky Galleons, but he does not appear in any of the other books, so it is assume that he died or left in the 20 years between the Quint and the Twig saga.