Skatval the Brisk was a Haloga chieftain during the reign of Stavrakios of the Empire of Videssos. His tribe lived along the Lygra Fjord. When four priests of Phos, led by Tzoumas, arrived on a mission from the Empire of Videssos, Skatval almost immediately recognized that Kveldulf, an Haloga who was captured as a slave twenty years earlier and was now returned as a priest of Phos, was the most dangerous of the lot. Skatval's father was Raud. His wife was Ulvhild.