Hvitur Clan

## Introduction

The Hvitur Clanis an international clan of thieves and criminals in the series. It contains most of the series's major characters. Strangely, the clan is portrayed as good, probably because it plays a big role in the series.

## Description

Members of the Hvitur Clan can be nicknamed "Scavengers", meaning that they are of the clan. The reason why men in the Hvitur Clan are called Scavengers are because they are always stealing things and are criminals infamous primarily of theft.

Most of the clan's members are from many different parts of Europe (stereotypically from the UK), but members like Akira Fuchigami and Victor Primrose are from two different continents. Of course, the Hvitur Clan is known mainly for wearing top hats of all shapes, sizes, and colors. They wear top hats so Scavengers can be recognized as members of the Hvitur Clan and not raiders. The two other signs of being part of the Hvitur Clan is having two silver ear rings around the helix on one ear, and if they a leader, right-hand man, or part of any of the high-class councils, they possess one golden tooth near the right of the mouth.

"Hvitur" means "white" in Icelandic. It is unknown why the word white was chosen to be translated and why Icelandic was chosen to be the language.

## History

The clan's current leader, Lionel Goldenwood (Dio), is rudely called the "least manly" leader of the clan. He is also the first leader to become leader at the youngest age of all the leaders, at a young 16 years.

Dio is also the one of the few "real" leaders of the Hvitur Clan, along with Jefferson Goldenwood. 50 years before The Reset, the Hvitur Clan actually had women so that the clan's leaders have children of royal blood. Jefferson's plan was as follows:

*"We need women...[.] What I'm trying to say, Ricky, is that so if I can bring in my wife, I can have a child with her. Our child would be the next leader, and he would find a woman worthy to have a child with. Regardless of the children's gender, they must be the next leader. The Hvitur Clan's leaders will come from a line of blood-related people, all in the same family. Our daughters, granddaughters, great granddaughters, whatever - must not change their last name, however." - Jefferson*

But after 10 years, the current leader at the time (Veronica Goldenwood) was a tyrant - she killed other Scavengers as punishment, took all the treasure for herself, and so on. The High Council had to do something about it, so they overthrew her and banned her from his leadership for being a scourge to the Hvitur Clan. She didn't have any children yet, so instead the High Council had to violate Jefferson's rule about "royal blood."

*"I am hoping to find Scavengers who will be a better leader if not in blood but in nature, just so we do not have anyone like Veronica. Prove yourself worthy and you'll be leader."* - Miranda Deer, former leader of the High Council

The next leader after Terrence Suave was supposed to be Evan Kestrel, a rather elderly man. He was officially made leader for about a month or two, but a Scavenger named Alessandro Ricci seemed to have remembered the clan's first leader, Jefferson Goldenwood, and claimed that the clan's youngest leader at the time, Lionel Goldenwood (nicknamed Dio), should be the next leader because they were kin. The Scavengers of the High Council decided to perform a DNA test on Dio to make sure that Alessandro was right. One of the high Scavengers, Maurice Wolf, grew suspicious of Alessandro's most-likely-true theory. He told the others that Alessandro was lying, and came up with a concept that explained the fact that Dio changed his last name to Goldenwood because he thought he'd someday become leader because of Jefferson. The results showed that they were blood-related, and Maurice was kicked out of the High Council for lying.

Then the young 16-year-old Dio became the Hvitur Clan's new leader after the DNA test. Dio was very scared and not ready to rule the Hvitur Clan, but his support and advice from Evan helped him lead the Hvitur Clan.

The skilled and "ethereally lucky" Henry Stickmin invaded the clan's airship. was announced by Lionel Goldenwood that it was the Hvitur Clan's biggest and most impacted event in all of the Hvitur Clan's history, thus giving the event and rather melodramatic name: *The Scavenger Leadership Succession,* which defines the event of Henry invading the Scavenger Airship to have his crime charges dropped, and then becoming the clan's leader as a result of Dio bribing him. Dio, when he was on the brink of being arrested by Captain G, (Milo Centhin) he made a deal with Henry. He said that if Henry didn't bring him to Captain G to get arrested, he could become the Hvitur Clan's leader, and the airship was surrendered to him.

Henry decided to take Dio's offer and as Dio promised, he became the new the Hvitur Clan's new leader (making Dio's reign the shortest in all of the Hvitur Clan's history). That clearly explains the "succession" part of the title.

Dio became the Right-Hand Man of the Hvitur Clan, and Francis was then kicked out of his position. When Henry was captured and threatened to have an extremely long sentence at the prison complex The Wall, he managed to escape his cell and ask the Hvitur Clan for help escaping. When Henry was gone for some time Dio took over as the leader, he was acting as if he was the leader of the clan. He calls Dio to help him escape The Wall. Although Dio was skeptical at first, he said yes and agreed to help him. Henry sneaked through the prison and told Dio he wanted to be picked up at the cafeteria. When Dio sends in a pod of three Scavengers to fight the guards in the cafeteria, primarily as a distraction, a booster inside of the pod was given to Henry so he could reach the airship. The booster didn't have enough gas, but Henry barely made it to one of the airship's balconies. Dio catches his hand; Henry was hanging off the balcony. Just as dramatically as he was when he threw Evan Kestrel off the airship in Arc 1, Dio tells Henry that he never actually wanted to save him in the first place, and that the reason why he didn't have the intention to was because he hated Henry for nearly killing Francis with the chainsaw. The other reason was because he wanted his position as leader back, so he released Henry's hand and threw him into the frozen ocean.

Dio gained his position back as leader and once Francis was well again to return to his duties, they both went back to their positions.

## Line of leaders

the Hvitur Clan's first leader is Jefferson Goldenwood, one of Dio's ancestors.

* The leader after Jefferson Goldenwood is unknown along with at least eight more unknown leaders.

* Veronica Goldenwood

* Billy G.
* Sir Wilford IV
* Terrence Suave
* Ex-Leader Evan Kestrel
* Lionel Goldenwood (current)
* Ex-Leader Henry Stickmin

## Line of failing right-hand mans

Line of known "unsuccessful" right-hand mans

(This is a list consisting of all the right-hand mans who never became leader, due to death, illness, or simply just quitting, and not the right-hand mans who became leader such as Terrence Suave and Billy G.)

* The first (at least 11) right-hand mans are unknown.
* Royce Carmine: fell of a bridge in one of the hallways of the airship
* Jackson Cummings: died from cancer
* Pablo Garcia: mysteriously disappeared, presumed dead
* \*\*\*Charles White: killed in an invasion

\*\*\*Not to be confused with Charles Kavanagh, a helicopter pilot working for the USA government.