Wind Jackal is a fictional character of Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart (writer)

Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series which are written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell...

's The Edge Chronicles

The Edge Chronicles

The Edge Chronicles is a young-adult fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It consists of three trilogies, plus three additional books, and others . Originally published in the United Kingdom, this series has since been published in the United States, Canada and Australia. To...

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Character biography

The origins of Wind Jackal (also called Orlis Verginix) are unknown, but he was captain of a Sky Pirate ship, "The Galerider" for at least two years. In the first chronological book, "Cloud Wolf" he and his crew (including his son, Quint), aid an attack on the leagues vessel, The Great Sky Whale in an attempt to free the slaves on board. Quint and a few other pirates are captured, and Wind Jackal rescues them, freeing the bellow-slaves on their escape. The ship's flight rock cools, and it hurtles into the air. In the closing chapter, Wind Jackal gives Quint a sky Pirate name, Cloud Wolf.

In the next book, The Curse of the Gloamglozer

The Curse of the Gloamglozer

The Curse of the Gloamglozer is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2001. It is the fourth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the first of the Quint Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the first novel, preceding the Twig Saga trilogy...

, Wind Jackal leaves Quint on the floating city of Sanctaphrax,to assist his old friend Linius Pallitax

Linius Pallitax

Linius Pallitax is a fictional character from The Edge Chronicles fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.In the first book of the series , The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Linius the is the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax and father of one of the stories protagonists, Maris and a...

.When Linius dies several months later in the next book, The Winter Knights

The Winter Knights

The Winter Knights is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2005. It is the eighth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the second of the Quint Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the second novel, preceding the Twig Saga and Rook Saga...

 Quint joins the Knight's Academy to become a Knight academic, chasing storms in search of the precious substance, Stormphrax. At the end of the book, Wind Jackal rejoins Quint and begins a search for the murderer of his family and sworn nemesis, Turbot Smeal. During the book Clash of the Sky Galleons

Clash of the Sky Galleons

Clash of the Sky Galleons is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2006. It is the ninth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the third of the Quint Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the third novel, preceding the Twig Saga and Rook Saga...

, almost all of Wind Jackal's crewmembers die, until only he, Quint, Tem Barkwater

Tem Barkwater

Tem Barkwater is a fictional character in the children's book series The Edge Chronicles. He appears in Clash of the Sky Galleons, Beyond the Deepwoods, Stormchaser, and Freeglader. He first appears serving under Wind Jackal on the Galerider and follows Quint after Wind Jackal's death...

, Maris Pallitax and Spillins remain of the original crew. He tracks Turbot Smeal to an abandoned sky-wreck, where he is stabbed in the back by Smeal, who is in fact his crewmember Thaw Daggerslash

Thaw Daggerslash

In the fiction of Paul Stewart, Thaw Daggerslash is a young forthling Sky Pirate. Charismatic and handsome, he is popular with many that he meets...

. Thaw kills Wind Jackal, then tells Quint that he was killed by Turbot Smeal. Quint does not discover the true events until Thaw reveals them in his last words.