![]() He is the last known living descendant of Arthur Eld, the legendary king of All-World and his world's analogue of King Arthur, and is therefore sworn to protect the Dark Tower. He became a gunslinger at the age of fourteen after defeating his teacher, Cortland Andrus, in combat (his weapon of choice being David the hawk). ![]() The main protagonist of The Dark Tower series, also known as "The Gunslinger", who hails from Mid-World, specifically Gilead in the barony of New Canaan. "The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle." This makes the breaking of their ka-tet in the final book all the more heartbreaking. True Companions: Roland's first ka-tet started off as this, but his second become true companions through their arduous quest, eventually seeing the others as their true family. ![]() ![]() Each of them are also misfits and loners in their own way. Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Unlike his first ka-tet who all grew up and trained to be gunslingers together, Roland's second ka-tet are all total strangers at first, each of them pulled from different 'wheres and whens' and forced together through ka.Generation Xerox: Roland's new ka-tet, despite being from different universes and not blood relations, display characteristics of his old ka-tet, though not always in the same way.Badass Normal: Unlike many of the villains they come up against, the gunslingers are all normal humans (and one billy-bumbler) with no magical powers or supernatural abilities, other than Jake and Alain who are strong in "the touch", a psychic power that gives them the ability to read minds, track enemies and project their thoughts to others.Badass Crew: By the nature of the fact that every main member of each ka-tet is a natural born gunslinger (except Oy, who himself is Badass Adorable) who can instantly master any weapon, they are all extremely badass and capable of taking down foes that are much greater in number than them. ![]()
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