The Song of the Bear.Urs-A-Ka Ganmeans the scream of the Bear.

This is the essence of the gunslinger litany, or what aGUNSLINGERmust learn to do to become an accomplished killer.

All things work in harmony with the greater tides of fate. All events serve a greater purpose, even if we can’t understand what that purpose might be.

Arthur Eld—MID-WORLD’s greatest mythical hero and the ancient king of All-World—was a Warrior of the WHITE. Roland is Arthur Eld’s descendant. Like Roland, Arthur Eld was the Guardian of the D [..]

A type of gun. Roland and his childhood friends called these firearms barrel-shooters because of their oversize cylinders. Unlike the cylinders of many other handguns, the cylinder of a barrel-shooter [..]

The six Beams are like invisible high tension wires that cross at the nexus of theDARK TOWER and hold the Dark Tower in place. They maintain the integrity of time, space, size, and dimension. The Beam [..]

A billy-bumbler (also called a throcken) looks like a cross between a raccoon, a woodchuck, and a dachshund. Bumblers’ eyes are gold-black and they wag their little corkscrew tails like dogs. Bumble [..]

Black Thirteen is the last and worst of Maerlyn’s evil seeing spheres which are collectively known asMAERLYN’S RAINBOW. According to Roland, it is the most terrible object left over from the days [..]

The Breakers ofTHUNDERCLAP are both the prisoners and the servants of the CRIMSON KING. Imprisoned in the DEVAR-TOI, located in the poisoned land of END-WORLD, they use their psychic abilities to weak [..]

The Children of Roderick (also known as Rods) are a band ofMUTANTs who swore allegiance to ARTHUR ELDin the long-ago. They are from lands beyond those known to Roland.