ok here I will list all of the characters from the dark tower that I can think of ^^ I know I'll miss some so damnit shut up this is hard >,< I got a better idea watch how I cleverly use wikipedia to get the information :D
and look how nice of me I'm even getting you an optional pic :D
note: I tried to get rid of all major spoilers in the descriptions also when you chooce your characters kindly put Claimed by [
your username goes here you fool] after the characters name
The Ka-Tet of Nintey and Nintey Nine
(the main characters)
Roland Deschain Claimed by [
wolvie]
Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, was born in the Barony of Gilead, in In-World. Roland is the last surviving gunslinger, a man whose only goal is finding and climbing to the top of the Dark Tower, purported to be the very center of existence. This quest is obsession, monomania and geas to Roland: the success of the quest is more important than the lives of his family and friends. He is a man who lacks imagination, and this is one of the stated reasons for his survival against all odds: he can't imagine anything other than surviving to find the Tower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Deschain <---for more info on Roland WARNING has spoilers
Eddie Dean Claimed by [
wolvie]
Eddie Dean, a drug addict and a first-time cocaine transporter. Eddie lived with his older brother and fellow junkie Henry, whom Eddie reveres despite the corrupting influence Henry had upon his life. Roland helps Eddie fight off a gang of mobsters for whom he was transporting the cocaine, but not before Eddie discovers that Henry has died from an overdose of heroin in the company of the aforementioned mobsters (after which the mobsters decide to chop off Henry's head). It is because of Eddie's heroin addiction that he is termed 'The Prisoner', and that is what is written upon the door from which Roland draws him.
Eddie passes through the door into Roland's world, and faces heroin withdrawal symptoms, but despite his suffering, he also shows an affinity for the ways of the gunslinger. Unwillingly at first, and somewhat under duress, Eddie becomes Roland's companion through Mid-World, and he soon falls in love with and marries Susannah
Roland also notes that Eddie's character strongly resembles that of Cuthbert, a gunslinger of Roland's past, and one of Roland's greatest friends
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Dean <---for more info WARNING has spoilers
Susannah Dean Claimed by [
Deg]
Also hailing from New York City, Susannah is an African-Americ
an (although as a woman of 1964, she prefers the term "Negro" over the term considered appropriate in Eddie's time, "Black") woman with two major afflictions: her legs below the knees were severed in a subway accident, and a childhood head injury left her with dual personalities, which Eddie incorrectly labels schizophrenia. She is "The Lady of Shadows", the second companion predicted by Walter to be drawn into Roland's world via the mysterious doors.
Initially, her dominant personality is that of Odetta Susannah Holmes, a well-mannered but priggish woman active in the civil rights movement. At times, however, she is taken over by Detta Susannah Walker—murderously psychotic, incredibly crafty, completely unbreakable—whom neither Eddie nor Roland can control. Roland manages to resolve these personalities by forcing her to look through the third door while he himself looks out of it, forcing her to see herself as she really is; thereafter, her personalities are integrated into a single, far more balanced individual, and she becomes Susannah Dean, Eddie's wife. Susannah has access to the memories and personalities of both Holmes and Walker, and can call upon their skills and temperaments at will.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Dean <---for more infor WARNING has spoilers
Jake Chambers
Jake Chambers, an eleven-year-old boy from the New York of 1977, is the symbolic (and later adopted) son of Roland. Jake's given name is John, but he prefers to be known by Jake, and is called "'Bama" by his house-keeper, who is far closer to him than his parents. In his home world, he dies at the hands of Jack Mort (who Jake initially believes is Walter) and ends up in Roland's world as a result. The gunslinger and the boy travel together in pursuit of the Man in Black, developing a strong bond along the way. However, in order to reach the Man in Black, Roland lets Jake fall to his death.
The child Roland allowed to die reappears in Roland's mind in The Waste Lands, however, due to a paradox. Since Roland (in The Drawing of the Three) prevented Mort from shoving Jake into traffic, he never died, therefore he never appeared in Mid-World and was never left to die under the mountains. Jake and Roland, however, can remember both timelines, and the knowledge is slowly driving them insane.
In the first half of The Waste Lands, Roland's ka-tet figure out a way to draw Jake into Mid-world, where he belongs (an action which finishes the real Drawing of the Three, Jack Mort never having been intended to join the ka-tet). Eddie is driven to whittle a key out of wood as they approach a Speaking Ring, where Eddie draws another door into the ground, this one guarded by an invisible demon. Susannah distracts the demon by allowing it to copulate with her, while Eddie perfects the key and uses it to open the door. On the other side, Jake has been led by the younger version of Eddie who lived in that when to a haunted house (indeed, Eddie has vague memories of the encounter himself), filled with evil spirits and a horrendous gate-keeper. Jake, with some timely assistance from Roland, fights through them to reach the door. Once the boy is in Mid-World again, Roland's and Jake's memories are merged and their descent into insanity abated.
Roland also notes that Jake strongly resembles Alain, another gunslinger, in his stable, reserved personality and talent with a psychic skill referred to as "the touch."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Chambers <----more info will probably make more sence but will have more spoilers
Oy
Oy is a billy-bumbler, one of a species of creatures native to Roland's world. These animals are described as looking like a cross between a raccoon and a dog, with a corkscrew-spiral tail. Introduced in The Waste Lands, the third book in the series, Oy befriends one of the main characters, Jake Chambers. While on the road to Lud, Jake rescues a wounded "billy-bumbler". When he first sees it, he calls, "Come here, boy," and the animal mimics Jake's words, barking, "Oy". The bumbler is friendly and intelligent -- Roland explains that it used to be common for billy-bumblers to speak and even be able to perform simple math -- and Jake decides to call him Oy, after the first word they heard him say. Seemingly a mere pet at first, Oy proves to be helpful in times of need, and sometimes nearly human in both intelligence and compassion. During the quest, especially when a problem arises, Oy is a valuable ally.
Oy develops emotions and even a sense of humanity beyond that of his ability to replicate some words that the others speak. Oy is often referenced as the smartest bumbler that characters have seen since the world had moved on. Oy provides a much-needed shelter from the harsh adultness of the quest for his master, often playing with Jake or providing moments of lightheartedness to the ka-tet. Together, the two are sometimes able to recall the innocence they have lost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_(Dark_Tower) <---more info on Oy has spoilers
Roland's Original Ka-Tet
Cuthbert Allgood Claimed by [Ritsuka-Kun]
Cuthbert is Roland Deschain's childhood friend, and a member of his original ka-tet. Cuthbert, often called Bert, is first featured in The Gunslinger, but he does not play a major role in the series until Wizard and Glass, the fourth volume in the series. He is very witty and skilled with a slingshot, although he does also carry the guns of a gunslinger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Allgood <---better info has spoilers
Alain Johns
Alain is one of Roland's original ka-tet, and along with the gunslinger and Cuthbert is evacuated to Mejis in Wizard and Glass for safety, due to the ongoing war against John Farson. Alain is strong in the 'touch', which appears to be a Mid-World form of telepathy or other mental power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Johns <---better info wif spoilers
sorry for shitty pic was best I could find on deviant art
Susan Delgado [WARNING MAJOR SPOILS!!!!!!] Claimed by [Ritsuka-Kun]
Susan Delgado appears in Wizard and Glass, the fourth book of the series. She is a resident of Hambry in the Barony of Mejis, where the 14-year-old Roland and his ka-tet have been sent for safekeeping. Her father was killed in a horseback riding "accident", actually a murder, and Susan has been cajoled by her aunt Cordelia into becoming a "gilly", essentially a concubine, for Mejis mayor Hart Thorin (while Susan is paid for her services, she is a recognized consort and any heir she bears to the heretofore-childless Thorin will be legitimate). Before her relationship with the mayor is allowed to begin, however, she falls in love with Roland, and lays plans to run away with him. She saves Roland's group from imprisonment and possible execution. Accused of helping the gunslingers kill the mayor, she is burned at the stake by the townspeople and her aunt. At the time, she is already pregnant with Roland's first child. Roland is devastated by her death—not just because of his love for her, but because, when confronted with the choice of returning for her or setting out for the Dark Tower and thus saving all of creation, he chose the Tower, thus condemning her to death.
Roland believes that Susan Delgado was the only true love of his life.
Allies of the Ka-Tet
Ted Brautigan
Ted Stevens Brautigan (19 letters), was introduced in the Stephen King novella Low Men in Yellow Coats from Hearts in Atlantis. He is a powerful "Breaker", a psychic, whose extraordinary powers as a facilitator are sought by the Crimson King so he can hasten the destruction of the beams and Dark Tower. Ted arrives in the Devar-Toi, the prison camp where the Breakers are held, in 1955, and with help from Roland's old friend from Mejis, Sheemie Ruiz, soon escapes the Devar-Toi and enters the Connecticut of 1960, which is when the story of Low Men in Yellow Coats takes place. After his adventure in Connecticut, the low men capture and smuggle him back to the Devar-Toi via the Dixie Pig and Thunderclap Station. Ted meets Roland and his ka-tet in the final novel of the series, and he, Everything's Eventual's Dinky Earnshaw, and the newly-revealed psychic Sheemie assist the ka-tet in the attack on the Devar-Toi and ultimately succeed in obliterating the low men and the taheen. After Roland, Jake, and Oy travel to the Maine of 1999 to prevent Stephen King from dying, Ted and his friends escort Susannah Dean to Fedic Station, and Ted, along with a handful of the other psychic Breakers depart for the Callas, where they hope to first find redemption from the Calla folken and then return to America via the Doorway Cave.
Sheemie Ruiz
Sheemie, introduced in Wizard and Glass, was a mildly mentally retarded tavern boy at a saloon in Hambry. Sheemie assisted Roland and his first ka-tet in preventing the followers of John Farson, and more specifically, the Crimson King, from reviving the Great Old Ones' war machines, later following the group back to Gilead. Sheemie joined Roland's ka-tet briefly and helped the gunslingers ward off the Crimson King's followers until he and his mule Capi mysteriously disappeared. However, while Roland assumes Sheemie is dead, he is not; he had been captured by the low men and taken to the Devar-Toi, the Breaker prison, because of his telepathic abilities, which remained unknown to Roland's ka-tet. He reappears in the series' final novel and assists the new ka-tet in defeating the low men and the taheen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheemie_Ruiz <---More Info Spoilers
Dinky Earnshaw
Richard "Dinky" Earnshaw is the psychic assassin from Stephen King's short story Everything's Eventual. He was hired by a man named Mr. Sharpton who was the head of a North Central Positronics subsidiary. However, when Dinky discovered what Sharpton was truly using him for, he killed Sharpton. Unfortunately, the low men captured him and transported him to the Devar-Toi, where he later met Ted Brautigan and Sheemie Ruiz. The three joined forces with Roland and his ka-tet in the final novel of the series and they helped to defeat the Devar-Toi's guards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinky_Earnshaw
Pere Donald Callahan
Donald Frank Callahan (19 letters) is the "damned" priest who first appeared in the novel 'Salem's Lot. He makes his first appearance in the Dark Tower series in Wolves of the Calla, although his involvement in the series was hinted at in the afterword to Wizard and Glass. After being marked by the vampire Kurt Barlow, and therefore forced out of his church, Father Callahan spends time volunteering in a homeless shelter. Callahan made it a goal to get even with the vampires for what they did to him and his friend, who contracted HIV after being bitten by a vampire. He is aided in this by his ability to spot the vampires; since Jerusalem's Lot (and the forced taking of some of the vampire Barlow's blood) he has been able to recognize vampires at a glance. Like Jake Chambers, Callahan enters Mid-World after dying in his own world, although in Callahan's case the death is his own doing; he jumps from a window to escape agents of the Crimson King, then arrives at the Way Station from the The Gunslinger, shortly after Jake & Roland left it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Callahan <---more info spoilers
Patrick Danville
Patrick appears in Insomnia as a promising child artist, then again at the end of the Dark Tower series as a young adult artist with enough talent to shape the real world as he sees fit. As a young boy, he was prophesied to save two men in the future. He drew pictures of Roland and the roses as well. In the Dark Tower series, he was kept imprisoned for an unknown amount of time by the psychic vampire Dandelo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Danville <---more info has spoilers
Cortland "Cort" Andrus
Teacher of Roland's original ka-tet. Roland earned his guns by defeating him with the hawk David, who was killed in that battle. After Roland's challenge, Cort laid in his cabin for a week in a coma, being tended by two nurses. Cort was often rough handed with his students, using physical punishment and denial of food to punish mistakes. He also fancied calling the prospective gunslingers, "maggots". According to the Roland, he is murdered soon after Roland's class graduates. He acts as a sort of a spiritual guide to Roland throughout the series, his voice and teachings popping up in the Gunslinger's mind every so often as Roland needs to reflect upon his training.
Abel Vannay
Also known as "Vannay the Wise," he was the other primary tutor of Roland's ka-tet and of apprentice gunslingers. Known mostly for his wisdom and forebearance, Vannay's analytical method of instruction and pacific nature serve as strong counterpoints to the ruthless application of force and cynical thought process exercised by Cort. It is mentioned that he walks with the assistance of a black ironwood cane. His only known relative was his son Wallace who played with Roland as a toddler ,however he died very young of an illness. Vannay would become one of the many victims to fall prey to the forces of John Farson in the battle for Gilead.
Stephen King
Stephen King (as a fictionalized character) appears in the final two Dark Tower books. Roland and his ka-tet learn of his existence when Roland comes across a copy of 'Salem's Lot, after first meeting Father Callahan, during plans to end the Wolves' reign in the Calla. Roland and Eddie later confront King in his Maine home at a time when he has written Salem's Lot and The Gunslinger but no further Dark Tower books. Roland hypnotizes King and it is revealed that he did not in fact "create" the characters of Father Callahan or Roland or any others involved with the Dark Tower but is in reality a channel that records their quest. It is also revealed that at a very young age, the Crimson King attempted to claim Stephen King as one of his own. King fears retaliation from the Crimson King if he continues to write Roland's tale but the Gunslinger's hypnosis encourages him to continue. The attempt on King's life to end his chronicling of Roland's quest comes in the form his 1999 automobile incident.
The Badguys :D
Randall Flagg
The Man in Black, and a character with numerous aliases, including: the Ageless Stranger, the Walking Dude, Walter O'Dim, Marten Broadcloak, Richard Faninn, Rudin Filaro, Legion, and his given name, Walter Padick, son of Sam; he appears in many books of Stephen King, most notably in The Eyes of the Dragon and in The Stand, always as a nearly-demonic sorcerer. He is the Crimson King's chief agent, but secretly plots to rule the Tower himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Flagg <---more info spoilers
The Crimson King
The ultimate in evil, this mysterious figure wishes to conquer the Dark Tower and raze it to the ground. Since this will destroy the entire universe, the Crimson King is naturally cast as the villain in The Dark Tower books. He is also known as Ram Aballah, and once ruled from his castle in End-World, but now is imprisoned on a balcony on the Dark Tower, which he had run to in a fit of madness that had taken him over. He believes that when the Tower falls, he will rule the Todash darkness that was once the multiverse. He is the one whom Walter/Flagg serves, whom the low men and taheen serve, and he has opposed Roland of Gilead from the beginning. The Crimson King is known by a number of names, including Los' the Red, Ram Aballah, The Aballah, The Kingfish, The Red King, The Lord of Spiders, and The Lord of Discordia. He also appears in Insomnia.
Rhea
A decrepit old witch, Rhea Dubativo was the one responsible for the death of Roland's true love, Susan Delgado. She was entrusted with the pink Wizard's Glass (known as Merlin's Grapefruit), which slowly drained her and drove her insane, similar to the deterioration of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. Readers never find out what happens to her; although Roland implies that he killed her, nothing more is elaborated upon beyond that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_of_the_C%C3%B6os <---more info
Eldred Jonas
The main antagonist of Wizard and Glass, Eldred is a failed gunslinger now in service to the Crimson King. He leads a gang called the Big Coffin Hunters. Eldred, though in charge of the Red's operations in Mejis, is answerable to George Latigo (one of John Farson's chief lieutenants) and Randall Flagg (at this time known as Walter), Farson's personal wizard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_Jonas <--more info spoilers
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