The characters / Recurring character
Arthur Eld
Arthur Eld is recorded in 7 distinct storys.
The Tower narratives share the ancestral king Arthur Eld, Roland’s lineage, his sword, and the Covenant; these are lineage and legendary-history references except the depicted dream tableau.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
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The gunslinger felt a nasty jolt go through him. “Yes,” he said. “Arthur Eld, you say true, I say thank ya. I was very young . . .” But the boy was asleep sitting up, his hands folded neatly in his lap. “Jake.” “Yar!”
Roland answers Jake’s Round Table reference by naming Arthur Eld.
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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… of older and nobler lines which grew closer and closer together as they stretched back toward Arthur Eld, he of the white horse and unifying sword. Yet there was life here, and plenty of it. There was a robustness that had been missing in Gilead, and not …
Gilead’s noble lines are traced toward Arthur Eld and his sword.
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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Gunslingers. Gunslingers to the west, come out of Mid-World. And it was true, God help them. Arthur Eld’s last deadly children, moving toward Calla Bryn Sturgis along the Path of the Beam. Ka like a wind. “Time to be men,” Pere Callahan told them.
The gunslingers are called Arthur Eld’s last descendants.
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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They were at a table she recognized—it was the one in the banqueting hall of Castle Discordia. Arthur Eld sat at the head with his crown on his brow and his lady-wife at his right hand. And his eyes were a blue she knew from her dreams.
A dream/vision tableau depicts Eld seated at the banqueting table with his crown and wife.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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… once spoken from End-World to Out-World; hile you son of two fathers, both of them descended from Arthur Eld, first king to rise after the Prim receded, and Guardian of the Dark Tower.” For a moment nothing happened. In the Control Center there was only …
The Tower guardian identifies the fathers’ shared descent from Eld.
The Little Sisters of Eluria
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The guns of his father, and his father before him, all the way back to the days of Arthur Eld, when dreams and dragons had still walked the earth. “Will you be all right?” he asked her as they settled down.
Roland traces his inherited guns to the days of Eld.
The Wind Through the Keyhole
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… even then, in those olden days, some were whispering it wasn’t fair, the taxes were too much, that Arthur Eld was long dead (if he had ever existed at all), and the Covenant had been paid a dozen times over, in blood as well as silver. Perhaps some of them …
The taxation narrative recalls the long-dead Eld and his Covenant.