Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (124 page)

A jar of the Great Old One’s demonstuff cracks open, loosening plague.

The Red Death wipes out the people of Fedic.
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1,800 B.R.B.

The Great Old Ones finally destroy themselves.

They disappear from the Earth.
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Human society fragments, and the old knowledge is forgotten.

Mutants roam the wastelands.

Mid-World’s Dark Age begins.

690 B.R.B.

Arthur Eld rises to power and rules the Kingdom of All-World.
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The people practice human sacrifice as part of the Charyou Tree Festival of Reap.

464 B.R.B.

The Great Old One’s technological web—supporting Beams and Tower—continues to decay.

Blaine’s computerized monitoring equipment in End-World collapses.
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464–64 B.R.B.

The Kingdom of All-World fragments and is replaced by a loose Affiliation of baronies.

The In-World Barony of New Canaan is the Affiliation’s hub.

New Canaan, and its barony seat of Gilead, is ruled by the gunslingers, who are the descendants of Arthur Eld and his knights.

64 B.R.B.–36 A.R.B.

Civil War erupts in the distant baronies of Garlan and Porla.

Wars continue for a hundred years.
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The Affiliation begins to destabilize.

ROLAND IS BORN

John Farson, a harrier from Garlan and Desoy, gains power in the lands west of New Canaan. His followers call him the Good Man.

Farson resurrects the Great Old One’s killing machines so that he can overthrow the Affiliation and the aristocratic gunslingers.

Failed gunslingers from Gilead and the In-World baronies, sent west in disgrace, begin to join Farson’s cause.

11 A.R.B.

Roland’s father, Steven Deschain, is on the verge of becoming
dinh
of Gilead, and possibly
dinh
of all In-World.
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Roland and his friend Cuthbert Allgood discover that Gilead’s head cook, Hax, is poisoning people for John Farson. They tell their fathers.

Hax is hanged for treason. Roland and Cuthbert witness his hanging.
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14 A.R.B.

West of Gilead, near the edge of the civilized world, fighting breaks out between Farson’s rebels and the Affiliation.
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Roland finds out that his mother is having an affair with his father’s sorcerer (Marten Broadcloak/Walter O’Dim), who also happens to be a secret
supporter of the Good Man. Needing guns to exact revenge, Roland goes for his test of manhood five years too early.

Roland succeeds.

14–14.5 A.R.B.

Roland and his two friends Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns are sent east to Hambry, in the Barony of Mejis, to keep them safe from Farson’s treachery.
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They discover a plot against the Affiliation and defeat some of the Good Man’s forces.

They find Maerlyn’s Grapefruit, the Pink One of the Wizard’s Rainbow, and steal it for their fathers.

Roland is captivated by the Pink One’s
glammer
and gazes into its depths. He sees his pregnant lover, Susan Delgado, burned to death on a Charyou Tree fire.
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14.5 A.R.B.

Roland and his friends return to Gilead.

Roland is given his father’s guns.

Gabrielle Deschain, lately back from a retreat in Debaria, is still in Marten Broadcloak’s power. She secretly plans to kill her husband, but Roland prevents it.
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Roland accidentally shoots his mother.
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16 A.R.B.

Much of In-World falls to the Good Man.

Roland’s father is murdered.
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19 A.R.B.

Roland’s
ka-tel
(or graduating class) of gunslingers load their guns for the first time.

Only thirteen remain out of a class of fifty-six.

Cort is too ill to attend the Presentation Ceremony.

Nine weeks later, Cort dies of poisoning.
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21 A.R.B.

Two years after Cort’s death, the red slaughter reaches Gilead, the last bastion of civilization.

The final civil war begins.
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24 A.R.B.

The battle of Jericho Hill is fought.
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Cuthbert Allgood dies, shot through the eye by Rudin Filaro (aka Walter O’Dim).
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Roland is the only gunslinger to survive.
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Roland leaves the Horn of Deschain (the Horn of Eld) on Jericho Hill.

24–36 A.R.B.

Roland casts about for Walter’s trail.
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He visits the ruins of Gilead, now overrun with timothy and wild vines.

The old castle’s kitchens are infested with Slow Mutants.
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Roland travels to Eluria, is captured by the Green Folk, and ends up in the clutches of the vampiric Little Sisters of Eluria.

He escapes.
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36 A.R.B.
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Roland is hot on the trail of the Man in Black.

He enters Tull and is besieged by the followers of the mad preacher Sylvia Pittston, servant of the Crimson King and lover of the Man in Black (aka Walter O’Dim).

Roland kills everyone in Tull, including his lover, Alice.

Roland crosses the Mohaine Desert and at the Way Station and meets Jake Chambers.

In the Cyclopean Mountains, Roland sees the Man in Black for the first time in twelve years.

Roland allows Jake to fall into an abyss below the mountains, then enters the golgotha with Walter.

Roland and Walter enter a fistula of time and Roland has a vision of the Tower’s many levels.
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When he awakes, Roland has aged ten years, but three hundred years have passed in Mid-World-that-was.
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While Roland dreams, the remains of Mid-World collapse.

140 A.R.B.

River Barony Castle (near the town of River Crossing) falls to harriers.
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198 A.R.B.

The Wolves begin invading the Callas of Mid-World’s borderlands.
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The Crimson King’s followers are feeding a twin-telepathy chemical (extracted from the brains of prepubescent twins) to the Breakers of End-World so that these telepaths can speed the destruction of the Beams and the collapse of the Dark Tower.

246 A.R.B.

David Quick, the outlaw prince, leads an attack on the city of Lud. This city (Mid-World’s version of New York) is caught in a constant cycle of warfare.

Quick dies trying to use one of the Old Ones’ flying machines.
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266 A.R.B.

Patricia (Blaine’s twin mono) stops running.
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336 A.R.B.

Roland awakens in the golgotha and travels to the Western Sea, where two of his right fingers and one of his toes are eaten by lobstrosities.

He draws forth Eddie Dean and then Odetta Holmes (along with Odetta’s second personality, the nasty Detta Walker).

Roland forces Odetta and Detta to unite, and they become Eddie Dean’s great love, Susannah Dean.

In the Great West Woods, our
tet
finds the Bear-Turtle Beam and follows it to the ancient kingdom of Mid-World.

Jake is drawn, once more, onto Roland’s level of the Tower.

While drawing Jake, Susannah becomes pregnant by the demon of the Speaking Ring (actually a Demon Elemental) and conceives “the chap.”

Oy joins the
ka-tet.

Our
tet
travels to River Crossing, then to Lud, and finally boards Blaine the Insane Mono on his mad hurtle toward Topeka.

Blaine says he will kill them all, and himself, unless they can beat him in a riddling contest.

Eddie defeats Blaine with the illogic of his bad jokes.

Blaine crashes, destroying himself, but our
ka-tet
survives.

They enter an alternative version of our Kansas and encounter a thinny.

There, by the warble of the thinny, Roland recounts the story of his time in Mejis and of his love affair with Susan Delgado.

Our
tet
enters the Green Palace and faces down the infamous R.F. (aka Walter O’Dim).

They awake in a clearing of white winter grass, once more on the Path of the Beam.

336–337 A.R.B.
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Our
tet
journeys along the Path of the Beam and enters the borderlands.

Susannah, pregnant with the chap, develops another personality, that of Mia (High Speech for “mother”).

Roland and his companions enter Calla Bryn Sturgis and battle the Wolves, saving the Calla’s twins from being made “roont” in End-World.

The Crimson King foresees our
ka-tet
’s victory, so kills himself and all but three of his followers.

Undead, the Crimson King rides to End-World and positions himself on a balcony of the Dark Tower.

After the battle with the Wolves, Mia takes control of Susannah’s body and escapes through the magical portal of the Doorway Cave.

She travels to the Dixie Pig in New York, 1999, so that she can rendezvous with the servants of the Crimson King and bear her demonic chap.

In the Extraction Room of the Fedic Dogan, Mordred Red-Heel is born.

Mordred immediately eats his body-mother, Mia.

Susannah Dean kills her captors and shoots off one of Mordred’s eight spider legs.

Jake, Oy, and their new
tet
-mate, Father Donald Callahan,
track Susannah to the Dixie Pig in the
where
of New York City and the
when
of 1999.

Pere Callahan is killed.

Pursued by the henchmen of the Crimson King, Jake and Oy reach the New York/Fedic Door.

Roland and Eddie pass through the Unfound Door to Maine, 1977.

After battling Balazar’s thugs, they track down Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau.

Calvin Tower sells Roland and Eddie the magical Vacant Lot, home of the Rose.

Roland and Eddie meet their maker, Stephen King, in the
when
of 1977 and the
where
of Bridgton, Maine.

With the help of John Cullum, Roland and Eddie form the Tet Corporation to protect the Rose in our world.

Our
tet
is reunited in the Fedic Dogan and passes through the Wolves’ Door to Thunderclap Station.

Mordred eats Walter O’Dim and follows them.

Our
ka-tet
defeats the servants of the Crimson King in the Devar-Toi.

Eddie is shot by the Devar Master and dies.

Roland, Jake, and Oy travel through a magic door made by the Breakers to Maine, 1999.

They save the life of their maker, Stephen King.

Jake dies.

Roland meets the executives of the Tet Corporation and sees the Rose.

Roland, Oy, and Susannah are reunited in Fedic.

They travel through the Discordia to Le Casse Roi Russe.

Mordred follows.

Roland, Oy, and Susannah destroy the were-insect Dandelo and free the mute artist Patrick Danville.

On the road to the Tower, Patrick draws the Unfound Door for Susannah.

Susannah abandons the quest and enters an alternative version of New York.

Mordred—dying of food poisoning—attacks Roland.

Oy dies defending Roland.

Mordred dies under the gun of his White Daddy.

Roland and Patrick reach the Tower, but the Red King is waiting for them.

Patrick uses his magical drawing skills to draw, and then erase, the Crimson King.

Roland climbs the Tower and finds . . . himself.

Commala come-come,

The journey’s never done.

Or is it?

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

But this time, Roland has his horn, and he will sound it when he reaches the distant fields of Can’-Ka No Rey, and the Tower which calls him.

**1. BABY-BUNTING RHYME

When Roland was a little boy, his mother sang this song to him.
Chussit, chissit, chassit
are the High Speech words for the numbers seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen. (VII:23, VII:767)

Baby-bunting, darling one,

Now another day is done.

May your dreams be sweet and merry,

May you dream of fields and berries.

Baby-bunting, baby-dear,

Baby, bring your berries here.

Chussit, chissit, chassit!

Bring enough to fill your basket.

2. BREAKER RHYME

This little rhyme is popular among the Breakers of End-World. I suppose it helps them justify their part in the destruction of the macroverse. (VII:289)

Enjoy the cruise,

turn on the fan,

there’s nothing to lose,

so work on your tan.

3. ORIZA RHYME

We learn this High Speech rhyme in Calla Bryn Sturgis. In the Calla they believe that mortal woman was made from the breath of mortal man, but that the first man came from Lady Oriza. The translation is “All breath comes from the woman.” (V:631)

Can-ah,

can-tah,

annah,

Oriza

4. PENNY POSY

This bit of “cradle nonsense” was sung to children in Mid-World. Roland would have known it well. (VII:171)

Penny, posy,

Jack’s a-nosy!

Do ya say so?

Yes I do-so!

He’s my sneaky, peeky, darling bah-bo!

5a. RAIN IN SPAIN (Original Version)

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

There is joy and also pain

but the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.