The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower characters

Appears from the start

The last gunslinger of Gilead, come at last near the end of his lifelong quest for the Dark Tower. Relentless and haunted, bound to his ka-tet by deep love he rarely shows, he presses toward the Tower through the final and most costly stretch of his road.

Appears from the start

A young man from New York, drawn into Mid-World and now a full gunslinger of the ka-tet, married to Susannah. Loyal, brave, and quick under fire, he stands with Roland through the last battles of the quest.

Appears from the start

A woman from 1960s New York, drawn into Mid-World and long since made whole, a gunslinger married to Eddie. Fierce and steady, she has endured being ridden by the being Mia and now fights to reunite the ka-tet and reach the Tower.

Appears from the start

A boy from New York, drawn into Mid-World and now a full gunslinger of the ka-tet, bonded to the billy-bumbler Oy. Brave beyond his years, he shares every danger of the final road.

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, faithful to the end of the road.

Appears from the start

A former priest from another world's America, traveling with the ka-tet. As this book opens he stands with Jake at the threshold of the Dixie Pig, ready to face a nest of the Tower's servants so that Susannah can be saved.

Also known as the man in black, Walter

Appears from the start

The shape-shifting dark sorcerer who has stalked Roland since childhood and meddled in his quest across every book. Cunning and ambitious, he schemes to seize the Tower's power for himself, playing his own game amid the servants of a greater and madder master.

Appears from the start

The great enemy of the Tower, a mad and monstrous being who rules the Tower's servants from a distant castle and works to bring down the Beams that hold all worlds together. He is the ultimate power set against Roland's quest, wanting the ruin of everything the gunslinger would preserve.

Appears from the start

The demon-fathered child born at the crossing point of the quest, claimed by two dark bloodlines and able to take the form of a monstrous spider. Both heir and hunter, he is drawn to stalk Roland's ka-tet across the last stretch of the road, a threat that grows as he does.