Roland Deschain

… Patrick Danville’s answer to his mother’s second question was lost in the rising storm of applause: Him’s name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him’s a King, too.

Patrick names the figure in his drawing as Roland and says he dreams about him. The Dark Tower later explicitly recounts this exact Patrick drawing as showing its gunslinger Roland.

Brown offered his hand and the gunslinger shook it. The dweller nodded to the southeast. “Walk easy. Long days and pleasant nights.” “May you have twice the number.” They nodded at each other and then the man Allie had called Roland walked away, his body festooned with guns and water.

The scene directly calls the departing gunslinger Roland after his account of Tull; it is inside the revised novel narrative, not its introduction.

Another grinding roar, this one much louder. The creature immediately stopped and raised its claws into its own peculiar version of the Honor Stance again. This wave was bigger. Roland began to drag himself up the slope of the strand again, and when he put out his hands, the clawed creature moved with a speed of which its previous movements had not even hinted.

Roland physically struggles on the shore while the lobstrosity attacks; the surrounding scene identifies him as the gunslinger after the encounter with the man in black.

Roland had been shooting for more years than the beautiful brown-skinned woman in the wheelchair would believe. He had corrected her at first simply by watching her aim and dry-fire at the targets he had set up. She learned fast. Both she and Eddie learned fast.

Roland teaches Eddie and Susannah and goes with Susannah to the clearing, continuing the group from The Drawing of the Three.

But Will Dearborn of the Inner Baronies didn’t ask her about her schooling or family or friends (the most common way of approaching any romantic rivals, she had found). Will Dearborn simply walked along beside her, one hand wrapped around Rusher’s bridle, looking off east toward the Clean Sea.

Tower VII explicitly says Roland was once Will Dearborn, the alias used in the Mejis story in Wizard and Glass.

We remember our first real love no more clearly than the illusions that caused us to rave during a high fever. On that night and beneath that fading moon, Roland Deschain and Susan Delgado were nearly torn apart by their desire for each other; they floundered for what was right and ached with feelings that were both desperate and deep.

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Roland took the hand, which was pleasantly rough. “I’m Roland Deschain, of Gilead. Long days and pleasant nights, John.” Eddie put out his own hand in turn. “Eddie Dean, from Brooklyn. Nice to meet you.” John shook with him easily enough but his eyes studied Eddie closely.

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Sai is an honorific; the responding gunslinger is explicitly Roland in VII and the narrating young Deschain in Wind.

Tower VII explicitly says Roland was once Will Dearborn, the alias used in the Mejis story in Wizard and Glass.

Farther down the aisle on this side, perhaps a dozen empty beds away from the boy and Roland Deschain, the gunslinger saw a third inmate of this queer infirmary. This fellow looked at least four times the age of the lad, twice the age of the gunslinger.

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That made most of them laugh. “Sai Deschain,” Wegg said, “puttin drink in these fellers ain’t a good idea.” But I thought it was. I motioned Kellin Frye to me and dropped two gold knucks into his hand. His eyes widened. “You’re the trail-boss of this herd,” I told him.

Sai is an honorific; the responding gunslinger is explicitly Roland in VII and the narrating young Deschain in Wind.

Roland gave him nothing, so Eddie looked back at the old man, shrugged, and grinned. “Little of both, I guess. I’m Eddie Dean, of New York. This is my wife, Susannah. And this is Roland Deschain. Of Gilead.” The riverman’s eyes widened. “Gilead that was? Do you say so?”

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