Spinello was an Algarvian major (later colonel), during the Derlavaian War Spinello represented in his own whose character expresses the complicated and contradictory Algarvian attitude to the Kaunians. Before the war he was a scholar specializing in ancient Kaunian culture and liked to spend quiet hours at the Kaunian Museum in Trapani, the Algarvian capital. With the outbreak of war he became the military governor of the Forthwegigan village where Vanai and her grandfather Brivibas lived.