The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Jack Ross: Father of Tim
• Sai Everlynne: A giant of a woman in many ways
• Everlynne, prioress of Serenity: A very large woman that oversees Serenity, the women's retreat.
• Fortuna: A young sister that was attacked by a monster.
• Sheriff Peavy: The Sheriff of Debaria, an old friend of Steven Deschain, Roland's father.
• Steg Luka: One of the Saltie's (salt miner)
• Rhea: Known as Rhea of the Coos. An old, evil witch introduced in Wizard and Glass
• Bill Streeter: A young man Roland meets in Debaria, while hunting the "Skin-Man".
• Sammy Shunt: The owner of a lot of businesses in the salties mining area.
• Susan Delgado: The girl in Hambry, whom Roland met in Wizard and Glass.
• Jake Marsh: Dark Tower
• Strother: Lots of characters, everyone has hopes and dreams, some are good some are bad
• Ada Cosington: Add a description of this character.
• Straw Willem
• Widow Smack: Teacher, friend to Tim and his mother
• Gabrielle Deschain: Born Gabrielle of Arten, was Roland's mother and wife of Steven Deschain.
• Belinda Doolin
• Millicent Redhouse
• Spot Hunter
• Baldy Anderson
• Helmsman: A mutant that helms a boat in the swamps
• Vannay: Abel Vannay was one of Roland's teachers in Gilead. He is described as being a gentle man and walking with a limp. He teaches mainly science, mythology, and philosophy.
• Bitsy: One of the 2 mules Tim takes care of that belong to his parents.
• Aslan: Taken from The Chronicles of Narnia, he is the lion representative of one of the stations along the path of the beam.
• Steven Deschain: Known as Steven of Gilead, was Roland's father and husband of Gabrielle.
• Headman
• Elrod Nutter
• Susannah: A member of Roland's ka-tet. A young, black woman from New York City, and Eddie Dean's wife.
• Bill Canfield
• Dogan: Not a person, but a building.
• Maerlyn: Legendary wizard of the Eld. Said to live backwards in time.
• Nell Ross: The mother of Tim Ross.
• Pickens
• John Farson: A bandit, who speaks of democracy and equality and wishes to overthrow the Affiliation and In-World's aristocracy of gunslingers
• Cort: Was Roland's teacher in Gilead. He trained many young men to be gunslingers. He was a brutal, squat, scarred, bow-legged man.
• Manni: The Manni are a religious sect who know how to travel between worlds.
• Cuthbert Allgood: Gunslinger and friend of Roland. Prominent in the Wizard and the Glass
• Roland Deschain: The Gunslinger / protaganist of the Dark Tower series.
• Pea Anderson
• Wegg
• David Quick: Also known as the outlaw prince. He was the original leader of the Grays and Tick-Tock man's great-grandfather.
• Allan Crow
• Bix
• Howard Tasley
• Marten Broadcloak: Steven Deschain's counselor and sorcerer. One of the larger antagonists within The Dark Tower Series.
• Fryes
• Ollie Ang: One of the Salties (salt miner)
• Ernie Marchly
• Arthur Eld: The founding ruler of Gilead; equivalent to the mythological King Arthur. His illegitimate children's descendants would be the future gunslingers of Gilead.
• Tim Stoutheart: Tim Ross. He is the protagonist of the meta-fairy tale "The Wind Through the Keyhole."
• Andy
• Jamie DeCurry: A gunslinger. Friend of Roland
• Dustin Stokes
• Daria: An A.I. component to an electronic compass that Tim receives from the mutant Mud-people.
• Dolores
• Travis
• Eddie Dean: One of Roland Deschain's fellow gunslingers and travelling companion
• Vikka Frye
• Mr. Oy: AKA Oy - the Billy-bumbler/throken.
• Bern Kells
• Water-Tim
• Kellin Frye
• Peter Cosington
• Arn
• Alain: Gunslinger and friend of Roland. Prominent in Wizard and the Glass

Quotes edit see section history

• ““It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.””

• ““The gunslinger had spent long years with no ka-tet, and keeping his own counsel had become a habit.””

• ““In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn’t it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.””

• ““Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do——the wind that blows through the keyhole——is the breath of all the living universe.””

• ““Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.””

• ““He already knew he couldn’t like his mother’s new husband, let alone love him, but perhaps his mother could do both. Women were different. They had larger hearts.””

• ““A person’s never to old for a stories. Man and boy, girl and women, never to old. We live for them.””

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Gilead: The capitol city.
• Endless Forest: Its like an Enchanted Forest, Stephen King style.
• Little Debaria
• Yar
• Beam
• Mejis
• Armaneeta

Organizations edit see section history

• North Central Positronics: A company set up by the "Great Old Ones" more than one hundred generations before Roland's time. This company created much of the technology that controlled the modern world and their name and logo are seen on many of the artifacts left behind.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Ka: It signifies life force, consciousness, duty, and destiny. The closest terms in our language is probably fate and destiny, but it also implies karma. We are servants of ka and ka is a wheel that turns, and in the end it always returns to the place it began.
• Ka-tet: Ka refers to destiny; tet refers to a group of people with the same interests or goals. It literally means "one made from many."
• Sai: It is a term of respect and can be roughly translated as "sir" or "madam."
• Thankee Sai: A polite term for "thank you."
• Trig: Clever/ smart
• Wheel: Measurement of distance. 1 mile = 0.8 wheels
• Dinh: Leader of a tet

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Dark Tower.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Stephen King (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 W56 2012
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Mature teens could read this also. Violence, strong language, sex is mentioned but there are no actual scenes

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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