Owen Deathstalker

"Deathstalker luck. Always bad."

 Owen Deathstalker  was a pampered aristocrat and amateur historian, Lord of the agricultural planet Virimonde. After being outlawed by Empress Lionstone with no reason or charges given, (although secretly in order to use him to track down the Darkvoid Device) he flees Virimonde in the company of Hazel d'Ark, a clonelegger and pirate. They set out for Mistworld, looking for answers and allies in a universe that suddenly makes no sense at all. Only one thing is certain: in order for Owen to live, the Empire has to fall.

All members of the Deathstalker Clan are bred and trained to a unique ability called "the Boost"

On the planet Mistworld, Owen mercy kills a dying plasma baby. This act haunts him the rest of his life. It is there an esper child Johnny prophecies that he will "...die alone, far from friends and succor."

After passing through the Madness Maze, he has frequently wondered if he has become something other than human, which worries him no end.