From The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser
                  "Spleethe was fishing. The Leaguesmaster had demanded more of him than he had expected~taking the Stormchaser, killing Cloud Wolf, delivering the stormphrax."
                  Slyvo Spleethe is the quartermaster aboard the sky ship known as the Stormchaser, who plans to kill Twig's father, captain of the Stormchaser, so he would become the new captain. Spleethe persuades Twig to stowaway on the ship, Twig takes the offer, not knowing he would be taken hostage in an attempt to kill his father.