You could say that Kay Deschain was one of the original gunslingers. One of Arthur’s original knights, Kay Deschain, died protecting the king from a demon known as the Crimson Queen, who tricked Arthur into impregnating her with a son known as the Crimson King, the main antagonist of the series. Roland is descended from the legendary Arthur Eld (think King Arthur), who was the greatest protector of the Tower and the first king of a unified Mid-World. The Gunslingers were once the highest authority in all of Mid-World, the planet on which the physical manifestation of the Tower is located. Roland is the last of the gunslingers, an order of peacekeepers tasked with protecting reality and, therefore, the Tower. It can only truly be accessed in Mid-World, the place Roland and Walter Padick are from. The Tower takes different forms on different worlds. Walter’s goal in the movie is to destroy the Tower, bring about the apocalypse, and rule over whatever is left. Why is this Tower so important? Well, without it the multiverse would crumble and all that would be left is chaos. We don’t meet any such Guardians in the movie. The twelve portals are protected by hulking magical Guardians. It is held up by six beams, which contain two portals at each end. The Tower is six hundred floors high and can only be accessed from one of an infinite number of worlds. The Dark Tower is the center of all worlds, created by Gan, the King universe’s version of God.
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