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FARSON’S MEN:

FARSON’S NEPHEW:
Disguised as a wandering singer, this young man smuggled a poisoned knife into GILEAD. The knife was meant to kill STEVEN DESCHAIN. IV:621

GRISSOM/GRISSOM’S MEN/BLUE-FACED BARBARIANS:
Grissom was the leader of Farson’s men during the battle of JERICHO HILL, where the AFFILIATION was defeated. Grissom’s men are described as “blue-faced barbarians.” V:169
(Grissom’s men),
V:170, V:171
(blue-faced),
V:410
(blue faces),
VII:174
(Walter fought with the “blue-faced barbarians”)

GRISSOM’S SON:
V:169–70
(eagle-eyed)

HENDRICKS, RODNEY:
IV:590–93, IV:594
(general),
IV:596–98
(present for battle; 598 swallowed by thinny)

LATIGO, GEORGE:
One of Farson’s chief lieutenants. IV:368, IV:371, IV:378
(hired Big Coffin Hunters),
IV:381, IV:404, IV:405, IV:421–25
(blond, from Northern In-World),
IV:470, IV:484, IV:501, IV:523, IV:528, IV:542, IV:583, IV:584, IV:589–91
(589 we learn his first name),
IV:592–94
(and his men),
IV:596–600
(600 walks into thinny),
IV:623, V:576
(men)

RAINES:
Bugler. IV:591, IV:596–98
(not named, but present for battle)

FARSON SUPPORTERS

BETWEEN GILEAD AND BEESFORD-ON-ARTEN (GENERAL):
In
The Wind Through the Keyhole,
we learn that in the scrubland towns beyond Gilead, many of the people are mutants, and many of them support The Good Man, John Farson. When they see Roland and JAIME DeCURRY riding by in the train SMA’ TOOT, they point at an invisible eye at the center of their foreheads, indicating their support for the Good Man. Although some of GABRIELLE DESCHAIN’s relatives still live in Beesford-on-Arten this does not increase the support for the gunslingers in the area. W:41

FAT MAN WITH ROCK:
Outside BEESFORD-ON-ARTEN, a fat man threw a rock at ROLAND and JAMIE’s train, SMA’ TOOT. As the rock bounced off of the closed stable-car door, the man grinned, grabbed his crotch, and waddled away. W:41

FAT MAN WITH ROCK

See
FARSON
: FARSON SUPPORTERS

FEATHEREX (GRAND FEATHEREX)

The Grand Featherex is a winged being that supposedly lives in the mythical Kingdom of GARLAN. Like the stork, the Featherex brings babies. In
The Eyes of the Dragon,
we learn that this creature is related to the phoenix.

II:66, IV:151

FEDIC CHARACTERS

The unfortunate residents of FEDIC were annihilated by the Red Death more than two dozen centuries before the WOLVES began invading the BORDERLAND CALLAS. SUSANNAH DEAN’s demonic possessor, MIA (who haunted Fedic before she was incarnated in a human body by WALTER and his cohorts), describes the people of Fedic as stubborn. They must have been. Their town was caught between the haunted CASTLE DISCORDIA, the evil FEDIC DOGAN, and the DEVIL’S ARSE, a crack in the earth in which monsters bred. By the time Mia haunted Fedic, most of the women there were already giving birth to monsters, thanks to the poisons left by the GREAT OLD ONES. However, the one perfect baby born into that town—named MICHAEL—sowed the seeds of Mia’s great child hunger and led to her Faustian pact with WALTER and the WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE.

ANDY LOOK-ALIKE ROBOT:
See
NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS

BABY MICHAEL:
See
MIA

FATHER:
See
MIA

MOTHER:
See
MIA

DEAD ROBOT:
See
NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS

HUCKSTER ROBOT:
See
NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS

RESIDENTS OF FEDIC:
VI:243, VI:244

FEEMALO

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: CASSE ROI RUSSE: HUMANS: FEEMALO/FIMALO/FUMALO

FEENY, ANDREW

See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES’S ASSOCIATES

FELDON, AMY

See
TULL

FELICIA

See
DELGADO, SUSAN

FENNS

See
MAINE CHARACTERS

FERMAN, ED

See
KING, STEPHEN

FILARO, RUDIN

See
WALTER
: WALTER’S ALIASES: R.F.

FIMALO

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: CASSE ROI RUSSE: HUMANS: FEEMALO/FIMALO/FUMALO

FINLI

See
TAHEEN
: WEASEL-HEADED TAHEEN

FISH GUARDIAN

See
GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM

FLAGG, RANDALL

See
WALTER
: WALTER’S ALIASES: R.F.

FLAHERTY, CONOR

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: DIXIE PIG CHARACTERS/ FEDIC CHARACTERS: HUMANS

FLIP, MR.

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: ’SALEM’S LOT CHARACTERS

FOOT SOLDIERS OF THE CRIMSON KING

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE

FORCE, THE

See
MANNI
: OVER, THE

FORT LEE REGISTER AMERICAN

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: CALLAHAN’S HIDDEN HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATES

FORTUNA

See
SERENITY, SISTERS OF

FORTY

Like NINETEEN and NINETY-NINE, forty is a magic number. In hobospeak, it refers to the bus that will take you as far away as possible. If you live in NEW YORK CITY and buy a ticket to FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, you are taking the forty bus.

V:428

FOUNDING FATHERS

See
TET CORPORATION

FOYLE, FRANKIE

See
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK
: ’SALEM’S LOT CHARACTERS

FRANCESCA (AND ROBERT)

See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: HAMBRY LOVERS

FRANK

See
PUBES
;
see also
CALLAHAN, FATHER DONALD FRANK

FRANKS, JOANNE

See
PIPER SCHOOL CHARACTERS

FREDERICKS, TOMMY

See
DEAN, HENRY
: HENRY DEAN’S KA-TET

FREDDY TWO-STEP

See
SKIN-MAN
: SKIN-MAN’S VICTIMS: JEFFERSON RANCH

FREEDOM RIDERS

See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

FREEMAN, NATHAN

See
DEAN, SUSANNAH
: ODETTA HOLMES’S ASSOCIATES

FRIENDLY FOLK

The Friends were a sect of the OLD PEOPLE. Like the MANNI, they spoke using the terms “thee” and “thou.” SUSAN DELGADO may have been descended from them, since her family used these words in their daily speech. The Friendly Folk remained in IN-WORLD throughout Roland’s youth.

IV:250

FRIGHTENED WOMAN

See
WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE:
CHARACTERS MET BETWEEN GREEN PALACE AND RIVER WHYE

FRYE, KELLIN

See
DEBARIA CHARACTERS
: SHERIFF’S OFFICE

FRYE, VIKKA

See
DEBARIA CHARACTERS
: SHERIFF’S OFFICE: FRYE, KELLIN

FULCHER, ANDY

See
KING, STEPHEN

FUMALO

See
WARRIORS OF THE SCARLET EYE
: CASSE ROI RUSSE: HUMANS: FEEMALO/FIMALO/FUMALO

FURTH

See
GUTTENBERG, FURTH, AND PATEL

GABBY

Gabby was the sarcastic nickname which the gunslinger apprentices’ tutor, VANNAY, gave to Roland. The name came from Roland’s childhood habit of being silent for prolonged periods.

VII:20–21

GAI COCKNIF EN YOM, MR.

See
TET CORPORATION
: FOUNDING FATHERS: DEEPNEAU, AARON

GALE, DOROTHY

See
WIZARD OF OZ

GAMBLER AND WOMAN

See
SKIN-MAN
: SKIN-MAN’S VICTIMS

GAN (VOICE OF THE BEAM, SPIRIT OF THE DARK TOWER)

According to MID-WORLD’s oldest legends, Gan arose from the magical soup of creation known as the GREATER DISCORDIA, or the PRIM.
²⁰From his navel, he spun the universe, and once it had spun into the shape he desired, he set it rolling with his finger. This forward movement was time. After creating the world, Gan moved on. The universe would have plunged into the void had not the great TURTLE caught it and balanced it upon his back. And it is here the universe still sits, poised upon the Turtle’s shell.
²¹

The great god Gan is actually the animating spirit of the DARK TOWER. Although this smoky-black edifice and its spiral of electric-blue windows may appear to be made of stone and glass, it is, in actuality, a huge living body. Just as the ancient myths of Mid-World maintain that the world spun from Gan’s navel, so both the BEAMS and the red ROSES of CAN’-KA NO REY spun out from the Tower. Together, Tower, Beams, and Roses form a living, singing force field which sits at the heart of END-WORLD, and it is toward this energy field that Roland, the last of the line of ELD, is inevitably drawn.

Gan is the Mid-World god most closely linked to the voice of the WHITE. As JAKE CHAMBERS says while in a trance state, “So speaks Gan, and in the voice of angels. Gan denies the CAN-TOI; with the merry heart of the guiltless he denies the CRIMSON KING and Discordia itself.” In the prayer which Roland utters over Jake Chambers’s grave, Gan is called upon to raise the dead from the darkness of the earth and to surround them with light.

Although Gan is a god, and though (as the spirit of the Tower) he rules the destiny of the multiverse, he seems to have a particular interest in Roland and the line of Eld. When Roland mounts Gan’s steps in the final book of the Dark
Tower series, what he sees in Gan’s hundreds of rooms forces him to reflect upon his life, and how (if he gets the chance) he must choose to live differently.

In our world, the voice of Gan is often transmitted through artists and writers, who are called
kas-ka Gan,
which means one of the prophets, or singers, of Gan. For our
tet,
the most important of the KEYSTONE EARTH
kas-ka Gan
is the writer STEPHEN KING.

VI:294, VI:295
(“Gan bore the world and the world moved on”),
VI:298, VI:318
(“So speaks Gan along the Beam”),
VI:320, VI:321, VI:353
(Gan the maker),
VI:380, VI:394, VII:4, VII:33
(birthed universe from his navel),
VII:34
(voice of Gan, voice of the Beam),
VII:129, VII:168, VII:291, VII:295
(Wolf-Elephant is Gan’s Beam),
VII:296
(Beam),
VII:300
(Beam),
VII:301
(Beam),
VII:303
(Beam),
VII:305, VII:306, VII:345, VII:348, VII:368, VII:371, VII:380, VII:388, VII:406, VII:447, VII:456, VII:457–58, VII:459, VII:474, VII:504, VII:505, VII:512, VII:513, VII:542, VII:543, VII:585, VII:607, VII:609, VII:638, VII:757
(Gan’s Gateway),
VII:798, VII:820, VII:821, VII:822, VII:823, VII:827, W:189, W:247
(Gan’s blood),
W:274

BLACK MAN IN JAIL CELL:
While in 1999 NEW YORK, JAKE CHAMBERS has a vision of a black man in an OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, jail cell. The man, who resembles a wizard in a fairy tale, has a toothbrush mustache, wears gold-rimmed glasses, and is listening to a radio, which is issuing a list of our world’s dead. Jake thinks that this image was sent to him by the DARK TOWER, and that the man may be a human incarnation of Gan. However, the black man in question also resembles a younger version of MOSES CARVER, SUSANNAH DEAN’s godfather, who is also a founding member of the TET CORPORATION. VI:320–21

GAN’S BEAM:
Gan’s Beam is the ELEPHANT-WOLF Beam.
For page references, see
GUARDIANS OF THE BEAM

GAN’S GATEWAY:
The yellow hearts of the CAN’-KA NO REY ROSES (roses which are identical to a certain flower in NEW YORK CITY’s Vacant LOT) are called Gan’s Gateways.
For page references, see
ROSE

GANGLI, DR.

See
CAN-TOI

GAN’S BLACKBIRDS

See
APPENDIX I

GARBER

See
HAMBRY CHARACTERS
: HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION

GARFIELD, BOBBY

See
BREAKERS
: BRAUTIGAN, TED

GARFIELD, LIZ

See
BREAKERS
: BRAUTIGAN, TED: GARFIELD, BOBBY

GARMA

See
MUTANTS
: CHILDREN OF RODERICK