Skavengers

Template:Characterbox Skavengers, also known as Pirates, are canine-like beasts in the Legend of Spyro series who travel across the realms in massive ships, capturing inhabitants to force them to fight in a gladitorial arena on the Fellmuth for entertainment, and raiding various locations to steal precious and valuable treasures. Hunter, Spyro, Cynder, Sparx, and Mole-Yair are examples of prisoners they captured.

Their captain was Skabb, but he was too stupid to talk for himself, so the real leaders of the Pirates were two parrots named Scratch and Sniff.

Story

The pirates captured Spyro and Sparx as a replacement for Arborick, a massive Wooden Sentinel that Spyro had killed. They forced him to fight in a gladitorial arena on the gigantic ship, Fellmuth, against the Blundertails, two giant scorpions with riders astride them, the Ravage Rider, a small, fast and dangerous floating ship and the Executioner, an armoured humanoid creature in golden armour. Spyro also discovered, to his shock, that Cynder was captured as well, possibly in the Ancient Grove also when she fled the temple. Skabb orders them to fight, but Cynder only wants to put up a show long enough for the crowd so that they could escape.

An attack by Gaul's ape army begins so that they can capture Spyro in order to free the Dark Master, but they decide to capture Cynder instead to use her as bait. Spyro then fights through the pirates to find a map that would lead him to the White Isle, where the Chronicler dwells. When he reaches the captain's quarters, he is confronted by Skabb and fights him, but the pirate runs away. Spyro glides through the fleet of small ships, and reaches Skabb on a floating platform, where he fights him again and defeats him a final time. Sparx knocks out Sniff, one of the parrots who were taunting him. While Scratch, the other parrot, escapes. The later fate of the Pirates is unknown, but it is possible that the apes wiped them out and destroyed their fleet, rendering the pirates extinct in the process.

Their fleet consists of flying ships.

Sizes, Ranks and Attacks

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A Pirate Captain

Skavengers come in three different sizes: small, medium, and large. Their sizes are based on their rank: small pirates are Soldiers, medium pirates are Captains, and large pirates are Commanders.

There are others that are not very common but just as dangerous. The Blundertails faced in the arena as bosses become minor enemies on the Fellmuth and, on a few of the fleet's vessels, the gunners that fire cannon balls at Spyro and there are also Scurvywing Riders, which will be re-encountered in another boss-fight on one of the ships and those that act as bombardiers when Spyro is escaping the pirate fleet and pursuing Captain Skabb.

Soldiers

The Pirate soldiers do not wield any weapons, but they attack by scratching, punching, and leaping into Spyro much like the Apes do. Although they have two knives strapped to thier lower backs, they chose not to use them. These type of pirates are strong in very large numbers or when powered by totems thrown by the Pirate Commanders.

Captains

The Pirate Captains wield sabers and throw dynamite balls. Their sword attacks consist of downward slashs, X pattern like hacks, and an upward slices. Medium pirates sometime strafe off to the side when Spyro approaches or they attack him head on. They throw their bombs at Spyro, trying to take careful aim to not miss their mark. Luckily, they are sort of stupid and most of the time they miss, or hurl it at their own comrades.

Commanders

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A Pirate Commander

The Pirate Commanders are the strongest type of Pirate. They wield a flaming cutlass and they throw totems, which empower the lesser pirates to make them stronger and harder to kill. Their sword attacks consist of C like slashs, circular swings, or they barrel right towards Spyro much like the Ape Commanders do.

Gunners

The Pirate Gunners are seemingly common. They mount on fire cannons, and fire at you with barrage of cannons. They fire at Spyro no matter where he goes much like the Ape Gunners do.

Blundertails

The Blundertails are not as common as the first three pirates, but are just as dangerous. The scorpion-riding pirates are first faced in the Fellmuth arena as bosses, but they are later on faced as enemies. They have two methods of fighting: in long-range attacks, they fire cannons from their tails, and in short-ranged, they swat you with their pinchers.

Skurvywing Riders

The Skurvywing Riders are not the most common to face, but are seen throughout among the fleet, riding astride their mammavian mounts, the Skurvywings. When facing them, the riders hurl fire bombs at you. To avoid you, they fly out of sight until it is safe for them to attack once again. When they are not attacking you face-to-face, they will drop bombs on you as they fly by. Fortunately, they can't exactly hit you on target, so fly pass them if you can.

Other Enemies

There are other enemies found amongst the Pirates. One are the ghosts found in the prison cells of the Fellmuth, and below the decks of the fleet ships. Another are armored saber-toothed big cats that are like the Apes' Death Hounds; these though are found in the DS version of The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night.

Pirate Ghosts

Unknown if they are the deceased spirits of the Skavengers, these pirate ghosts are still dangerous. They appear from out of nowhere and will slash you with their cutlasses. They are found in the Fellmuth's brig and some of the fleet ships below deck. Howewer, they are extremely weak against fire!

Saber-toothed Cats

Appearing only in The Eternal Night DS version, not much is known about these felines except they wear the same armor as the Skavengers. They are the pirate versions of the Death Hounds.

Parrots

Two parrots named Scratch and Sniff are the pets of Skabb. However, Skabb is too stupid to talk for himself so the parrots do the talking for him and command the pirates.

Ships

The ships of the Skavengers are sailing ships. But these ships can fly over the realms. This is probably their way of traveling without always making port, or try to sail around land masses. There is a massive fleet, consisting more than a hundred ships. The Pirates use these ships to travel to different parts of the world to capture inhabitants for them to fight on the arena of the Fellmuth. If captured weaker races, they would be put them through slavery, like the Manweersmalls to serve the pirates grog. Even though the Pirates sail their ships in the sky, they mostly sail over the sea still.

Jollyboats

The ships are not the only flying vessels, the jollyboats they have also can fly. The pirates use these rowboats to reach the shore of a land they've reached, or to transport reinforcements to different ships or parts of the Fellmuth when they are assaulted. The boats have oars, but they seem useless as the boats appear to not use them for movement.

Fleet Vessels

Most of the fleet consist of frigate-like ships. Each vessel is commanded by a Commander and possibly a Captain. The Pirates use these ships to travel to different realms and/or different sections of that designated realm to capture various inhabitants for them to fight on the arena of the Fellmuth, mostly those of great strength or power. If they captured weaker races/species, they transport them on slave ships, and put them through slavery. But when not being slaver ships, these vessels can be warships, and attack enemies that assault them, such as blast them with cannons on deck or from the gunports that line the hulls. The small ships have one mast, the medium ships have two masts, and the large ships have three masts.

Fellmuth

The flagship and largest pirate vessel of the Fleet is the Fellmuth. It is Captain Skabb's ship, and the one ship where the arena is held at. Once the pirates have succeeded in collecting enough prisoners, they transport them in their ships to the Fellmuth, where the weaker will become slaves, and the strongest and/or most powerful will be forced to fight for the pirates' entertainment. The Fellmuth has more prison cells than any of the other ships, and holds a crew of more than a million. It has two tall masts with two shorter ones in front of the other. The most notable feature of the ship is the gladitorial arena found in the very center of the gigantic galleon. During the siege of the Dark Master's army, the Fellmuth has gone up in flames. Its fate is unknown, but it might have presumbly been destroyed.

Gallery

• Skavenger Concepts
  Skavenger Concepts

Trivia

• The largest and highest-ranking of the Skavengers are Commanders. This, however, is incorrect, as commanders come before captains.

• While they seem to operate like real Caribbean pirates, such as capturing slaves and being of somewhat British, the Skavengers dress-up as the stereotypical pirates.

• The same year this game was advertised and released was at the same time Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was released. The pirates must have been based on the popularity of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
• It is possible that the Pirates are based off of jackals or hyenas, or another type of dog.