Dark tower who is the man in black

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About The Authors. Stephen King. Robin Furth. Photo Credit:. Peter David. It was Tim's stepfather, Big Kells , who killed his father. Tim finds this out with a key that The Covenant Man gives him that will open any lock, but only once. Tim opens Big Ross' trunk and finds his father's lucky coin. The beating leaves his mother blind, and The Covenant Man shows Tim another vision: Tim visiting Maerlyn and obtaining a magic blindfold that heals his mother's sight.

Tim departs on the journey. He later finds a tyger that turns out to be Maerlyn, transformed by an agent of the Crimson King Maerlyn admits this happened because he was drunk at the time. This could be due to his identity being so obvious, even Eddie or any of the 20th Century members feel no need to bring it up. Another solution is that while Roland's narrative conveys this to the reader, the story he is telling of Tim Ross is actually being told in the verse his mother taught him, and, to the Roland of the past, the identity is not anything he would know.

Many explanations are possible, but it is notable that, even euphemized in the frame of what passes for a fairy-tale in Mid-World, Roland fails to recognize the one who has bedeviled him. When Roland was a young boy, Flagg, under the name of Marten Broadcloak, orchestrated a devious plan of treachery in service of the Crimson King. Marten became the court magician of Gilead , acting as chief advisor to his father Steven , seducing Roland's mother Gabrielle , exposing this to Roland on purpose.

This enraged Roland to the point that he decided to take his coming of age gunslinger trial at the unheard of age of Marten hoped that Roland would fail in his test and be sent west with all other failed gunslingers.

Unfortunately for him, Roland succeeded; when Steven orders his arrest, he then escapes Gilead through a gateway he draws on the wall. Marten had another plan to murder Steven Deschain through Gabrielle, but this plan also failed. However Marten aided John Farson , a notorious madman turned revolutionary in the destruction of In-World and this eventually led to the fall of Gilead. After witnessing the final destruction of Gilead, Flagg fought with the other remnants of John Farson's armies at Jericho Hill , under the name Rudin Filaro.

Filaro is said to be a screaming blue-faced barbarian who shot an arrow through the eye of Roland's best friend, Cuthbert Allgood , ending his life. Walter luckily saves Clay Reynolds after he informs John Farson he has located the Pink Sphere, he has the idea of manipulating Charles Champignon into writing a letter of recommendation for a man named Kingson who will infiltrate the city and take the sphere.

He later has to resurrect Kingson after he was killed and aids him leave the city through a doorway and goes to retrieve the sphere himself discovering the demon inside has caused the death of Gabrielle Deschain and so forces the demon back into the sphere. He is seen during the battle of the Fall of Gilead. After the battle he is seen ceremoniously taking down the Affiliation flag atop Gilead, making the city's destruction official.

He holds Randolph 's family, Chloe and Edmund captive causing Randolph to betray Roland to get them back. He kills Chloe as Randolph is late to a meeting with him and later disguises himself, changing a crow to look like himself and pretends to hand the crow Marten over to Roland. Roland figures out that Marten is actually disguised and so Marten flees.

During the actual battle of Jericho Hill, Walter as Marten kills Cuthbert Allgood by shooting a crossbow bolt through his eye. After the battle he spits on Roland's body in triumph for stopping his quest for the Dark Tower, thinking him dead. After this Roland begins his long trek across the wastes of a world that has "moved on" following Walter's every move and slowly getting closer to the Man in Black.

Roland is the last in a long line of gunslingers hailing from Gilead in Mid-World. Essentially the role of a gunslinger is a kind of old-style Wild West Cowboy law enforcement, but Roland is exceptionally skilled and life has led him on a quest to reach the Dark Tower before the Man in Black.

He wants to destroy the tower, and, as is mentioned often in the books, he is both chasing and being chased by, Roland. Let's start with the Tower itself. The Tower sits in the center of all existence. It is a real, tangible place, and from that place, eight beams flow. The beams connect to other worlds, and while the Tower still stands, and those beams remain intact, the universe exists. If those beams are damaged, or the Tower falls, all of existence will collapse.

So Roland's quest to stop the Man in Black from carrying out his evil plan of destruction is pretty important, all things considered. The logical question to ask, is why does the Man in Black want to destroy the Tower, and why does he hate Roland so much?