The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy (56 page)

T
his section of the glossary includes all significant people, places and things from Mid-World. Characters mentioned only in passing or not by name are omitted. The numbers and letters after each entry indicate the books in which the person, place or thing is mentioned. The numbers 1–7 represent the seven main Dark Tower books. L stands for “The Little Sisters of Eluria,” 4.5 represents
The Wind Through the Keyhole
, and M means the Marvel graphic novels. Names in square brackets indicate situations where a subject's name changes because of a continuity error.

P
EOPLE

A
DAMS
, D
IEGO
(5)

A rancher in Calla Bryn Sturgis. His wife, Sarey, is one of the Sisters of Oriza.

A
DAMS
, S
AREY
(5)

One of the Sisters of Oriza. A cheery, jolly woman, fat but light on her feet. Brave as a lion and good with the plate, but lacks the ferocity of some of the other women. Roland puts her in charge of hiding the twins when the Wolves come.

A
FFILIATION
B
RATS
(4, M)

Name applied to Roland, Cuthbert and Alain by the Big Coffin Hunters and their associates.

A
GELESS
S
TRANGER
(1, 3)

Another name for Randall Flagg. Walter o'Dim tells Roland that he will have to kill the Ageless Stranger before he can reach the Tower. Susannah claims this is another name for Merlin.

A
LARIC
(6)

Roland's redheaded grandfather. He once went to Garlan to slay a dragon, but the last one in that part of the world had already been killed.

Crossover to Other Works:
This probably refers to King Roland of
The Eyes of the Dragon
.

A
LBRECHT
(7)

A blond vampire in the posse that follows Jake to the Fedic door. Eddie shoots him.

A
LEXANDER
, B
EN
(7)

A low man guard at Algul Siento. The lead engine of Fire-Response Team Bravo kills him.

A
LIA
(6, 7)

The taheen nurse in the Fedic Dogan. She has the head of a great brown rat. Susannah shoots her in the knee but allows her to escape.

A
LICE
(A
LLIE
) (1, 2, 3, 6, M)

Owner of Sheb's honky-tonk in Tull. She is Roland's lover until he kills her, along with everyone else in town. The man in black curses her by giving her a magic word to unlock Nort the Weedeater's memories of death. Jake has a vision of her in the vacant lot in Manhattan.

A
LLGOOD
, C
UTHBERT
(T
HROUGHOUT
)

Roland's best and oldest friend from childhood and member of his first
ka-tet
. His name is pronounced key-youth-bert. One of his favorite weapons is a slingshot, which he uses to discourage Roy Depape from tormenting Sheemie Ruiz and to lob firecrackers at the oil tankers at Hanging Rock. Roland has seen him take down a bird from sixty yards. He has no sense of the touch whatsoever, but he has an excellent memory for details and rarely forgets a name. He is a firebug at heart. Arguing comes as naturally to him as breathing. If he had lived longer, he might have developed a stomach for torture or killing outright, but he had none of that in Mejis.

On the surface he is a joker, quick to make a smart—or stupid—comment in any situation. Sometimes this makes him casually disarming. At other times, his relentless sense of foolery is simply annoying. Steven Deschain calls him Laughing Boy. To Roland he is (like Eddie Dean)
ka-mai
,
ka
's fool.
He believes Cuthbert would joke on the gallows. He couldn't even name his horse as a normal person would. He is impatient and hates silence more than danger. He accepts that some people might not want to talk for long periods of time, but he doesn't understand why.

This superficial levity and a patina of insouciance disguise the fact that he is lonely and volatile and that his emotions run deep. He is tormented after seeing Hax hang in Gilead. He can become angry quickly, though it is normally easy to coax him out of his anger. He spent two months mad at Roland in Mejis when he thought that Roland was being irresponsible and careless. His joking takes on a mean, cutting edge when he tries to goad Roland into action, and he finally breaks down and coldcocks his friend, the first time he ever hit him except in play.

He thinks the Tower is a symbol and the Wizard's Glasses are a myth. He wouldn't believe in ghosts unless he caught one in his teeth. Though he can't admit it, he's jealous of Susan Delgado for stealing his best friend and of Roland for always being the first at everything: the first to become a gunslinger and the first to fall in love. He falls in love with Susan when he meets her, too, but suppresses his feelings and welcomes her into their
ka-tet
. Though he and Roland mend their friendship, things are never quite the same between them again.

He never has to face Cort in a test of manhood. Mejis is his proving ground, and he is elevated to gunslinger after this mission. Alain told him once that he would die young. He was twenty-four when Randall Flagg put an arrow through his eye at the battle of Jericho Hill.

He is Eddie's twin and appeared to Stephen King together with Eddie when King was seven. The Crimson King had touched King, but Cuthbert and Eddie won him over to the White.

Physical description: Thin and dark, of average height, with a face that is handsome but restless. Brown hair and dark eyes.

A
LLGOOD
, R
OBERT
(4, M)

Cuthbert's father. In the Marvel series, he leaps in front of a poison dart fired by a slow mutant, saving Steven Deschain's life.

A
LVAREZ
, M
ISHA
(4)

A resident of Hambry. Susan Delgado taught her daughter to ride. Moments before Susan dies, Misha spits into her eyes. Her husband is part of the posse that arrests Roland, Cuthbert and Alain at the Bar K Ranch.

A
MY
(4)

A friend of Susan Delgado. They used to leave each other notes in the stone wall near the Green Heart pavilion when they were kids.

A
NDERSON
, P
EA
(4.5)

Debaria sheriff killed by the Crow Gang at Ambush Arroyo.

A
NDERSON
, R
UPERT
“O
LD
B
ALDY
” (4.5)

Tree Village's big farmer. He's known to be stingy. He bought Bern Kells's house after Kells married Nell Ross.

A
NDRUS
, C
ORTLAND

See Cort.

A
NDY THE
M
ESSENGER
R
OBOT
(4.5, 5, 6, 7)

An Asimov robot, a product of North Central Positronics in association with LaMerk Industries, built more than two thousand years ago. Design: Messenger (Many Other Functions). Serial # DNF-44821-V-63. A tireless walker, he likes to sing songs, spread gossip and deliver horoscopes. He always knows when the Wolves are coming. He tends to be smug and appears to enjoy the discomfort of humans. When asked to divulge privileged information, his voice becomes emotionless and dead, like a real robot. Directive Nineteen is his fallback position in these cases. Each generation, he coerces someone from Calla Bryn Sturgis to become a spy and reports his findings to Finli o'Tego at Algul Siento. He ends up buried in shit at the bottom of Rosalita Muñoz's outhouse.

Physical description: He looks like a child's stick figure and reminds Eddie of C-3PO from
Star Wars
. Seven feet tall with a gold, cylindrical body and impossibly thin silvery arms and legs. His hands have only three fingers. His head is a stainless-steel barrel with blue electric eyes that flash when he's laughing. He has a plate affixed to his chest with his name and serial number.

A
NG
, O
LLIE
(4.5)

One of the miners from Little Debaria who did time in Beelie Stockade. A bald man, slight for a miner but muscular, notable for wearing a wristwatch. He dies in the Debaria jailhouse and his body is burned.

A
NSELM
, H
UGH
(5)

Owner of a smallhold across the ridge south of Tian Jaffords's place in Calla Bryn Sturgis. He helps Tian build Rosalita Muñoz's outhouse. He and his wife, Krella, have twins (a boy and a girl) around thirteen years old.

A
NSELM
, K
RELLA
(5)

Hugh Anselm's wife. She helps corral the children before the Wolves come.

A
RA
(5)

Cantab of the Manni's wife and Henchick's granddaughter. She throws the Oriza, but as one of the Manni, could never be at fellowship with the Sisters of Oriza.

A
RDIS
(3)

A Pube. The last person to go near Blaine the Mono. Blaine asks him a question he can't answer, then kills him with electricity.

A
RMANEETA
(4.5)

The
sighe
(fairy) who lures Tim Ross through the Endless Forest into the Fagonard Swamp. She has the form of a beautiful naked woman four inches tall with gauzy wings. She gives off a green glow and her upturned eyes have no pupils. She can fly like a dragonfly. Her laughter is a silvery tinkle, like bells coming from a great distance. She colludes with the Covenant Man.

A
RN
(4.5)

A pokie who works at the Jefferson Ranch and survives the skin-man attack because he was out rounding up strays with Skip and Canfield.

A
VERY
, H
ERKIMER
“H
ERK”
(4, M)

High Sheriff of Mejis and Chief Constable of Hambry. A frog-eyed, big-bellied man, though his belly is harder than it looks. Considers himself a self-made man who can make hard decisions when he must. He is ingratiating to the Affiliation Brats, but Roland can tell he doesn't like them. Cuthbert calls him a fat bag of guts without a trustworthy bone in his body, and Alain thinks he wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. He brokers a peace treaty between the Big Coffin Hunters and Roland's trio after the dustup at the Travellers' Rest, though Roland knows he doesn't have any authority over Eldred Jonas. He is a figurehead and gladly cedes power to others during conflict, as
when the posse rounds up the Affiliation Brats at the Bar K Ranch. He is on duty in the jail when Susan Delgado frees Roland and the others. He tries to strangle her, but she shoots him to death.

B
ANDERLY
(4.5)

The bull foreman at the mines in Little Debaria. He orders the crew to plug the crack in the mine with rocks but refuses to close the mine or report the problem to his superiors in Gilead.

B
ARONS
(L, 3, 4)

Feudal leaders of the family estates around which Baronies developed. They wore ceremonial rings that were handed down from father to son. By the time Roland goes to Mejis, the title has almost no meaning.

B
ARONY
C
OVENANTER
(4.5)

See Covenant Man.

B
EECH
, M
RS.
(4)

Her mailbox marks the edge of Hambry in Mejis.

B
EEMAN
(7)

A
can toi
security guard at Algul Siento.

B
ERNARDO
(5)

The town drunk in Calla Bryn Sturgis.

B
IG
C
OFFIN
H
UNTERS
(1, 4, 5, M)

A trio of regulators hired by George Latigo to act on his behalf in Mejis. So called because of the coffin-shaped tattoos they each have on the webbing of their right hands, acquired in the town of Wind. Some of the low men have the same coffin tattoo. Their cover story is that they are private bodyguards for Mayor Thorin, though no one knows why he needs guards. They've been in Hambry for a month by the time Roland, Alain and Cuthbert arrive, staying at the watchman's house five miles out of town. They brought the pink Wizard's Glass to Mejis for safekeeping and are overseeing the transfer of livestock and oil tankers west to John Farson. Eldred Jonas, a failed gunslinger, leads them. He hasn't yet shared the huge cash advance paid by Latigo with his partners, Clay Reynolds and Roy Depape. One of their previous jobs involved helping the Vi Castis Company regulate freeholders out of the mines
west of Hambry. They know a lot of old gunslinger tricks. Jake thinks of his father as a Big Coffin Hunter in TV Land.