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Authors: Robin Furth
JEMMIN:
Jemmin and HENCHICK were the Manni elders who discovered CALLAHAN lying by the UNFOUND DOOR in DOORWAY CAVE. Jemmin eventually died of a heart attack. V:411–14, V:466
LEWIS:
Like THONNIE, Lewis is one of the younger Manni men. He is a strapping fellow with a short beard and hair that is pulled back in a long braid. VI:28–43
MANNI COUPLE KILLED BY SKIN-MAN:
See
SKIN-MAN
: SKIN-MAN’S VICTIMS
OVER, THE:
This is the name for one of the GODS OF MID-WORLD, specifically the one worshipped by the Manni. The other names for the Over are THE FORCE and the PRIM. V:406
(The Force, The Over),
V:412, V:414, VI:26, VI:108
(as Discordial/Prim)
REDPATH CLAN:
They are the Manni clan that lives near CALLA BRYN STURGIS. MARGARET EISENHART was born into this family. V:335, V:399
(Manni Redpath),
VI:3, VI:5, VI:6, VI:7
(sixty-eight men),
VI:9, VI:38
(Manni kra; Redpath-a-Sturgis)
THONNIE:
Like LEWIS, Thonnie is one of the younger Manni men. He is a strapping young man with a short beard and hair that is pulled back in a long braid. VI:28–43
YOUNG AND BEARDLESS:
He is one of the younger members of the Manni delegation that comes to CALLA BRYN STURGIS’s meeting at the beginning of
Wolves of the Calla.
He does not believe that the adults should let any children be taken by the WOLVES. V:18–31
(Town Gathering Hall; present)
MANNI COUPLE KILLED BY SKIN-MAN
See
SKIN-MAN
: SKIN-MAN’S VICTIMS
MANPOWER
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES
MANSFIELD FAMILY
MANSION DEMON
MARCHLY, ERNEST
See
TREE VILLAGE CHARACTERS
: WOODSMEN
MARGARET OF THE REDPATH CLAN
See
ORIZA, SISTERS OF
: EISENHART, MARGARET
MARIA
See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: HAMBRY MAYOR’S HOUSE (SEAFRONT)
MARIAN
See
ORIZA, LADY
MARK
See
CORT
MARK CROSS BRIEFCASE BUSINESSMAN
See
VAMPIRES
: TYPE THREE
MARK CROSS PEN BUSINESSMEN
See
CHAMBERS, JAKE
: CHARACTERS JAKE MEETS WHEN HE RUNS AWAY TO BROOKLYN AND MID-WORLD
MARLOWE
MARTEN BROADCLOAK
See
WALTER
MARTIN, MR. RAYMOND
MARY DAME
MARY, SISTER
MARYANNE
See
DEAN, HENRY
MATURIN
See
GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM
: TURTLE
MAUDE AND JEEVES
See
PUBES
McAVOY, CHIP
McCAIN, LARRY
See
DEAN, HENRY
: HENRY DEAN’S KA-TET
McCANN, BIRDIE
See
BREAKERS
McCAULEY, KIRBY
McCAUSLAND, CHARLES (CHIP)
McCOWAN, AL
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER ASSOCIATES
McCRAY FAMILY
McCURDY, SHEB
See
SHEB
;
also see
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: TRAVELLERS’ REST: SHEB
McCUTCHEON, MAC
McDONALD, CAPTAIN
See
DEAN, EDDIE
: DELTA FLIGHT 901 CHARACTERS
McGURSKY, MRS.
See
DEAN, EDDIE
: EDDIE’S ASSOCIATES PAST AND PRESENT
McKEEN, GARRETT
See
KING, STEPHEN
: McKEEN (GROUNDSKEEPER)
McLEOD, GEORGE
McVRIES, PETER
See
GUNSLINGERS
MEARS, BEN
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: ’SALEM’S LOT CHARACTERS
MEJIS CHARACTERS
MELLON
MENSO THE ESP WONDER
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES
MERCY
MERLIN
Although the MAERLYN of Roland’s world is different from the mythical Merlin of the Arthurian legends, in
The Gunslinger
Roland seems to be aware of the existence of both these magicians. He even compares MARTEN, the wicked magician of his father’s court, to Merlin.
See also
MAERLYN
.
I:94, III:261, III:387
MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS
See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES
MIA
In High Speech,
mia
means “mother,” and there could be no more appropriate name for this invading spirit that hijacks SUSANNAH DEAN’s body in
Wolves of the Calla.
Unlike Susannah’s previous split personalities of DETTA WALKER and ODETTA HOLMES, Mia does not come from a deep psychological schism within her host, but attaches herself to Susannah once she has conceived the CHAP in the demon-haunted SPEAKING RING of the RIVER BARONY plains.
Originally, Mia was one of the disincarnate spirits left behind when the magical PRIM receded. In her wraith state, she was a sexual VAMPIRE who caused the deaths of many men, including AMOS DEPAPE, brother of the BIG COFFIN HUNTER ROY DEPAPE. For many years, Mia haunted the city of FEDIC. There, she saw and fell in love with a baby named MICHAEL. After the Red Death ravaged the city’s populace and baby Michael was taken away by his parents, WALTER made the lovesick Mia a Faustian bargain. If she would give up her disincarnate immortality, Walter would give her a baby. Mia could not conceive (like all elemental beings, she was sterile), but if she could be given a body, then she could carry to term. After submitting herself to the horrid process of
becoming
(a technological and magical alchemy accomplished in the FEDIC DOGAN operating theater/torture chamber), Mia gained the necessary equipment for surrogate motherhood. All she needed was someone else’s fertilized egg.
Mia’s sole purpose is to nurture and bear the Chap, the demonic offspring of herself, Susannah Dean, Roland Deschain, and the CRIMSON KING. As a servant of the Outer Dark, the
dan-tete,
or little king, is destined to destroy his White Daddy (Roland) and rule after his Red one. Although the fetal MORDRED is slowly being “faxed” into Mia’s body located in END-WORLD, at first it is Susannah who experiences pregnancy’s strange cravings. As an early service to the Red King, Mia occasionally hijacks Susannah’s body to feed it the binnie bugs, frogs, and raw piglets that Susannah (in her waking state) would not have been able to stomach. However, like Detta Walker, the longer Mia is inside of Susannah, the more control-time she seems to require. By the beginning of
Song of Susannah,
Mia has seized the reins of the physical form she shares with her host.
Unfortunately for Mia (who goes mad upon the delivery of her chap), she never gets to raise the child for whom she has sacrificed so much. No sooner does Mordred begin to suckle at his mother’s breast than he turns into a were-spider and sucks all the moisture from her body. All that is left of Mother-Mia is a giant dust bunny.
V:71–81
(hunts in Susannah’s body),
V:127, V:173, V:174, V:181, V:183, V:184, V:196, V:198, V:241, V:248, V:249, V:251, V:311
(baby’s keeper),
V:318, V:329, V:341, V:370–76, V:376–80
(Eddie knows she is in Susannah),
V:382, V:383, V:385, V:390
(indirect),
V:391, V:392
(indirect),
V:394, V:396, V:472, V:478, V:479–83, V:488, V:583, V:617, V:628, V:629, V:648
(Susannah-Mio),
V:659, V:674, V:688, V:697, V:699–705, VI:8, VI:48–52, VI:53–125, VI:150, VI:190, VI:194, VI:210, VI:216, VI:219, VI:223, VI:224, VI:225–61, VI:241–45
(Mia as elemental),
VI:287, VI:316–17, VI:319
(indirect),
VI:320, VI:321, VI:322, VI:325, VI:326, VI:327, VI:339, VI:343, VI:347–85, VII:3, VII:4
(Susannah-Mio),
VII:21–22, VII:35, VII:47, VII:52, VII:55–75
(by 75 she is dried-out dust on a bed),
VII:76, VII:81, VII:115, VII:141–42
(a giant dust bunny),
VII:145, VII:149, VII:160, VII:163, VII:168,
VII:169, VII:170, VII:173, VII:175, VII:176, VII:302, VII:303, VII:315, VII:398, VII:399, VII:487, VII:488, VII:531, VII:538, VII:539, VII:554, VII:578, VII:595, VII:620
(lunatic mother),
VII:689, VII:741
(body-mother),
VII:766
(dust-mummy)
MIA’S ASSOCIATES:
BABY MICHAEL:
Michael was one of the few healthy babies born in the town of FEDIC before the onset of the Red Death. In her incorporeal state, Mia saw this baby and fell in love with him, realizing that her true destiny was motherhood. Mia’s longing for motherhood, a desire kindled by observing the untouchable Michael, was later used by WALTER, servant of the CRIMSON KING. He offered Mia motherhood in exchange for her incorporeal immortality. Mia, to her own undoing, accepted this most Faustian of bargains. VI:243–44, VI:249, VI:251, VI:254
MICHAEL’S FATHER:
VI:243–44
MICHAEL’S MOTHER:
VI:243–44
CHAP:
See
MORDRED
,
listed separately
RAT, MR.:
During one of her food-raids in her dream-version of CASTLE DISCORDIA, Mia kills Mr. Rat and steals his dinner. They are competing over a roasted suckling pig, which appears, momentarily, to be a human baby. Mr. Rat is the size of a tomcat, so Mia is a fairly fierce fighter. As always happens in the Dark Tower series, Mia’s foe has a twinner in MID-WORLD. Mr. Rat is also the rat which SUSANNAH DEAN kills in the JAFFORDS’s barn. V:373–75, V:376, V:381–82, V:390, VI:373
MICHAEL (BABY MICHAEL)
See
MIA
MICHELA, SISTER
MID-WORLD FOLKLORE (HEROES, ANTIHEROES, MAGICAL FORCES, FAMOUS TALES)
For a list of Mid-World divinities, see
GODS OF MID-WORLD
AM:
See
PRIM
,
listed separately
BEAMS:
See
BEAMS, PATH OF THE
,
in
PORTALS
BEAMS, GUARDIANS OF THE:
See
GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM
,
listed separately
BIG SKY DADDY:
see
GODS OF MID-WORLD
BLACK THIRTEEN:
See
MAERLYN’S RAINBOW
,
listed separately
BRAVE BILL:
In the story of “The Wind Through the Keyhole” (which is really a tale about a young gunslinger-to-be called TIM STOUTHEART), the WIDOW SMACK tells young Tim Ross that he should make himself a pallet behind the cottage door so that he can surprise his murderous steppa, BIG KELLS, if he comes home unexpectedly. She adds that this strategy isn’t much like one Brave Bill of the stories would use. Tim replies that being hit from behind is all his bastard steppa deserves, since that was how he murdered BIG JACK ROSS.
Interestingly, Bill is also the name of YOUNG BILL STREETER, the boy
to whom Roland recounts “The Wind Through the Keyhole.” We can’t help but wonder whether Roland chose the name “Brave Bill” to make his young companion feel brave in the face of everything he has seen, and everything he has yet to do. (Young Bill was the only witness to the SKIN-MAN murders at the JEFFERSON RANCH and had to identify the killer.) Just as Tim Ross grows up to be Tim Stoutheart despite the fact that he fears his cruel steppa, so Roland is secretly assuring Bill that he can grow up to be Brave Bill, despite the fact that he must identify the terrifying skin-man. W:168
CAM TAM:
See
ELURIA CHARACTERS
: CAM TAM (DOCTOR BUGS)
CAN-TAH:
See
CAN-TAH
and
GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM
,
both listed separately
CHASSIT:
See
NINETEEN
,
listed separately
CHILDREN OF RODERICK:
See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK
CRIMSON KING:
See
CRIMSON KING
,
listed separately
DAME MARY:
see
MARY DAME
below
DEMON ELEMENTALS:
See
DEMON ELEMENTALS
,
listed separately
