Kirth Gersen

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kirth Gersen is the protagonist of the five Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance, set approximately 1500 years in the future. When he was a boy, he and his grandfather were the only members of a peaceful and harmless space colony to escape a massacre and slave raid (the Mount Pleasant Massacre) perpetrated by pirates led by five master criminals known as the Demon Princes. The grandfather devotes the rest of his life to training the young Gersen--on Earth, Alphanor and other central planets of the Oikumene--to be the avenger who will track down and summarily execute the Demon Princes.