The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass characters

Appears from the start

The last gunslinger of Gilead, leading his ka-tet along the path of the Beam toward the Dark Tower. Guarded and driven, he rarely speaks of himself, but in this book he opens his past to his companions, telling the long story of his youth. His memories reveal how the hard, closed man came to be.

Appears from the start

A young man from New York, drawn into Roland's world and now a gunslinger of the ka-tet, in love with Susannah. Sharp, funny, and stubborn, he has grown into the quest and increasingly stands up to Roland as an equal rather than a pupil.

Appears from the start

A woman from 1960s New York, drawn into Roland's world and made whole from a once-divided self. She uses a wheelchair, having lost her legs before she came, and rides with the ka-tet as a capable gunslinger, devoted to Eddie.

Appears from the start

A boy from New York who died once and was drawn back into Mid-World, now a full member of Roland's ka-tet. Brave and resourceful beyond his years, he is close to Eddie and Susannah and bonded to the billy-bumbler Oy.

Appears from the start

A billy-bumbler, a small, clever animal of Mid-World that can echo human speech, devoted to Jake and to the whole company.

Also known as the man in black, Walter

Appears from the start

The dark sorcerer Roland has pursued since the first book, a shape-shifting servant of darker powers who has meddled in the gunslinger's life since childhood. Cruel and elusive, he crosses between worlds and works to keep Roland from the Tower, appearing under many names across the quest.

First appears in chapter 4

A young woman of the sleepy seaside barony of Mejis, appearing in Roland's account of his youth. Beautiful and headstrong, she has been promised as a concubine to the barony's aging mayor to settle a family debt. She meets a newly arrived young stranger and is drawn to him, though duty and the town's watchful eyes stand in the way.

First appears in chapter 4

One of Roland's boyhood friends and fellow apprentices from Gilead, appearing in the story of Roland's youth. Quick with a joke and rarely serious on the surface, he is nonetheless a loyal companion and a deadly shot, sent east with Roland on a mission that is really an exile for safety.

First appears in chapter 4

Another of Roland's boyhood friends and fellow apprentices, appearing in the story of his youth. Steadier and quieter than Cuthbert, with a gift for a kind of intuition called the touch, he serves as the calm center of the three young gunslingers sent east to Mejis.