Randall Flagg / Walter o’ Dim

A man who affected the dress of a monk and the shaven head of a penitent—” “Walter,” the gunslinger whispered. And although he had come so far in his musings, the bald truth still amazed him. “You. Marten never left at all.” The man in black tittered. “At your service.”

The revised novel directly identifies the speaking man in black as Walter and Marten. This is edition-specific narrative evidence of the alias identity.

One of these men had been a creature the gunslinger believed to be a demon himself, a creature that pretended to be a man and called itself Flagg. He had seen him only briefly, and that had been near the end, as chaos and the final crash approached his land.

Roland recalls the magician Flagg pursued by Dennis and Thomas; the closing narrative of The Eyes of the Dragon places those same men in pursuit of Flagg. This supplies contextual continuity beyond a matching name.

“Call me Fannin,” the grinning apparition said. “Richard Fannin. That’s not exactly right, maybe, but I reckon it’s close enough for government work.” He held out a hand whose palm was utterly devoid of lines. “What do you say, pard? Shake the hand that shook the world.”

The later passage explicitly lists Richard Fannin among Walter’s names together with Randall Flagg.

“Marten,” Roland said. He held out his left hand, the one which was still whole. “Marten Broadcloak. After all these years. After all these centuries.” “Want this, Roland?” Eddie put the gun he had used to kill the Tick-Tock Man in Roland’s hand.

Roland addresses the sorcerer as Marten Broadcloak.

He held out his left hand, the one which was still whole. “Marten Broadcloak. After all these years. After all these centuries.” “Want this, Roland?” Eddie put the gun he had used to kill the Tick-Tock Man in Roland’s hand. A tendril of blue smoke was still rising from the barrel.

Reviewed narrative excerpt depicts this character in the story.

Other servants of the Crimson King, maybe. Possibly Walter, the hooded man in black who sometimes shifted his shape and form and called himself Randall Flagg. Possibly even the Crimson King himself. Yes, Jake knew. “If you have the touch,” Callahan continued, “we have to assume that some of them do, too.

Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.

Roland’s birth history identifies Marten as the person who would not welcome the heir.

The later passage explicitly lists Richard Fannin among Walter’s names together with Randall Flagg.

His close advisor, Flagg, made Roland very aware of this. He also pointed out that at fifty, the years left to him in which he could hope to create a child in a woman’s belly were only a few.

Flagg acts as the king’s advisor and magician. This king named Roland is distinct from Roland Deschain; only Flagg is identified by this evidence.

All I can tell you is that Ben and Naomi were eventually married, that Peter ruled long and well, and that Thomas and Dennis had many and strange adventures, and that they did see Flagg again, and confronted him.

The narrator explicitly pairs Thomas and Dennis with their later encounter with Flagg, corroborating The Drawing of the Three’s recollection of those pursuers.

CHAPTER 23 Randall Flagg, the dark man, strode south on US 51, listening to the nightsounds that pressed close on both sides of this narrow road that would take him sooner or later out of Idaho and into Nevada. From Nevada he might go anywhere.

Established dark man travels Idaho toward Nevada; source explicitly lays out Richard Fry, Robert Franq, Ramsey Forrest, Walkin Dude and Boogeyman identities.

She thought, in that moment of half-sleeping and half-waking: Him, it’s him, the Walkin Dude, the man with no face. Then she slept again, this time dreamlessly, and when she woke the next morning she didn’t remember the dream at all.

Frannie explicitly identifies faceless intruder in dream as Walkin Dude; established Flagg alias from chapter23. He offers coat hanger aimed at her unborn child.

intrusion in Frannie’s dream

Because it became known—gods know how, not from me or my friends—that she had become the consort of Marten Broadcloak, the court magis and my father’s chief advisor, and that Marten had fled west. Alone. “Roland, hear me very well.

Roland recalls his mother’s relationship with his father’s advisor Marten.

Because it became known—gods know how, not from me or my friends—that she had become the consort of Marten Broadcloak, the court magis and my father’s chief advisor, and that Marten had fled west. Alone. “Roland, hear me very well. I know you felt betrayed by your lady mother.

Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.