List of Animals of The Edge Chronicles - S

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• Scrabster - A "sky vermin". They sneak into skyships through cracks and eat the cargo, favoring candles. These are mentioned in Clash of the Sky Galleons on the Galerider. They kind of look like crawdads or lobsters, but with tentacles coming out of their mouth.
• Shryke - A species of birdlike Creatures. They are vicious and cold blooded, and the females have the more colourful plumage, using the males as drab pets and slaves. Shryke teeth are used by Sky Pirates to elect a new captain (a shryke-smile). The crew members are each given a shryke tooth and have one day to choose a person to give their tooth to. This occurs in Clash of the Sky Galleons. Hemtuft Battleaxe wears a shryke-feather cloak in Freeglader. Notable Shrykes include Mother Horsefeather of the Bloodoak Tavern, the black Shrykes of Imbix Hoth's bodyguard, Mother Muleclaw, Sister Slashtalon and the unusually benovolent Mother Bluegizzard of the New Bloodoak Tavern.
• Silver-backed quarm - A larger, more aggressive variety of quarm. They travel in large groups of "troops", similarly to gorillas.
• Skullpelt - Illusionistic predator, resembling a leather-bound skull wrapped in blue fur. Takes the form of something its prey will find appealing in the lullabee groves, to trick and kill. Thaw Daggerslash uses the skull of a skullpelt as mask when posing as Turbot Smeal in Clash of the Sky Galleons.
• Skulltrog - An extremely primitive race of trog that hunts in packs and shows no sign of verbal communication whatsoever. Huge, muscular creatures, they attack their soon-to-be-prey with force alone. They attacked Rook during his journey to the Free Glades in "The Last of the Sky Pirates" but then ran away when the Snickets came, but all were eaten by them anyway.
• Slaughterer - Deepwoods creatures, these bipedal humanoids are solitary, and they have bright red skin and spiky scarlet hair. Slaughterers originated in large, family oriented tribes in the Deepwoods, but are also seen in large communities like Undertown and the Freeglades. Their most identifying trait (the red coloring of their skin and hair) is not caused by, as suggested by other Deepwoods cultures, the blood of the animals whose meat and pelt they trade, but from the red smoke of the specific wood that they burn in their tanning and group fires. Over the centuries, as it is said in 'Beyond the Deepwoods,' it stained their skin and hair.
• Slime mole - A (possibly) blind burrowing creature that is usually found around milchgrub colonies, who excrete a slime called "mole glue" from slime sacs on the sides of their bellies. This is used as a varnish for librarian knights sumpwood skycrafts, giving it the ability to hover. Their skin, like spindlebugs and milchgrubs, is entirely transparent. They have two small legs on the front of their large, slug-like body, probably used for burrowing in their natural habitats. Their mouth consists of a tube-like protuberance on the front of the body, ringed by a multitude of eyes.
• Snicket - Named by Rook Barkwater. Possibly a relative of the ratbird. They have long pointed noses and stubby triangular wings, and are completely black. Like ratbirds, they fly in flocks; however, unlike the scavenger ratbirds, snickets appear to be hunters. In Last of the Sky Pirates they stripped a trog straight down to the bone in a few moments and later on completely devoured a logworm from the inside.
• Spiderbat - A creature mentioned in Freeglader
• Spindlebug - Spindlebugs resemble insects, but are enormous and wholly transparent, giving them the nickname "Old Glass-legs". They tend the Milchgrubs, raising food for gyle goblin colonies, which operate like ant colonies on a larger scale. Spindlebugs live for centuries and are very devoted to their work. One spindlebug is known to have worked for Linius Pallitax, the sometime ruler of Scantaphrax; Tweezel, a cunning strategist who runs errands, calls people early for their appointments (by making them believe they are late) and looks after the family. It is he who rescues Linius while Quint is distracted by the Gloamglozer. He eventually ends up in the Free Glades.
• Stormhornet - A large, wasp-like creature that lives on lakes, rarely seen apart from when a storm is due. A stormhornet gave inspiration to Rook Barkwater in Last of the Sky Pirates, and he fashioned his skycraft in the likes of it.