Slagor was the Skandian skirl of Wolf Fang. He and his crew did not go and fight for Morgarath, but decided to go raiding the coasts of Celtica and Araluen before the other Skirls and Jarls got back to Hallasholm, the capital of Skandia.
Erak and Slagor have always clashed.
Description[]
Slagor is a cowardly captain without any authority in Skorghijl. The other Skandians barely respect him and even his own crew seem to have came on board just for the money and don’t feel any ties of loyalty towards him. Erak finds his crew half or whole criminals. He said to Will in Skorghijl that Slagor is no Jarl, but a Skirl. He has a whip claiming to use it to encourage lazy rowers, but everyone knows that he won’t flog a rower. Everyone also knows that for raiding, Slagor only picks locations that are barely defended and always stays away from fights.
History[]
The Icebound Land[]
He arrives on Skorghijl claiming he thought he could make the crossing of the Stormwhite Sea because of a lull; he lost two of his men trying to make the crossing. After Will and Evanlyn's escape attempt, he offered to flog them, but Erak told him to mind his own business. Slagor and his men didn't leave Skorghijl with Erak and his men because their ship needed repairing from the damage it had taken.
Oakleaf Bearers[]
Slagor betrays Skandia by planning to bring one hundred and fifty Temujai led by Or'kam in three ships to attack the Skandians from the rear of their army during the battle between the Skandians and the Temujai. His plans are overheard by Evanlyn, who followed him after she thought he was up to something, due to the fact he looked 'shiftier' than usual. Before Halt and the others were able to devise a way of accusing Slagor without being shouted down or foiled, Slagor accuses Evanlyn of being Princess Cassandra, daughter of King Duncan, and tries to persuade the Oberjarl Ragnak to execute her, fulfilling the Vallasvow sworn by Ragnak. Halt talks the Oberjarl out of executing Evanlyn immediately, then accuses Slagor of his plot against Skandia and, with Will, finds proof of his treachery. They found this out by sailing three ships, the amount of ships the Temujai were expecting, to the island where the Temujai were supposedly waiting for Slagor. When they found the Temujai camping there, the Temujai immediately asked where Slagor was. This was proof that he was involved in the plan.
Erak's Ransom[]
In Erak's Ransom it is revealed that Slagor had been beheaded for his treachery against Skandia in The Battle for Skandia by Erak. Though Princess Cassandra is disappointed upon hearing this news, having attempted to convince the new Oberjarl not to follow up with his punishment, believing it to have been a bad idea and felt responsible for the traitorous Skirl's death, though everyone else agrees that it was an appropriate punishment. However, Cassandra's worries would be well justified, as, upon Slagor's death, one of his cronies, a power-hungry Jarl by the name of Toshak, used Slagor as a figurehead for himself and the small faction of Skandians he gathered together against Erak, making a martyr of the former captain and making a more sanitized version of the traitorous Skirl and a figurehead for any Skandian who had an ax to grind with Erak or Skandia's new ally; Araluen.