Roland Deschain

The Gunslinger

Manifest Destiny

We learn that the sneaky Marten Broadcloak is trying to rid of Roland because he has seen the future and Roland destiny stand in the Dark Tower and he wanted to rid of the naive young Gunslinger because he could cause a terrible rip in his plans and his Master. That why Marten wanted all this to end with a young Roland but he orchestrated the entire future of this powerful man instead. In a not too far future Marten would ran for his life from the Gunslinger in what is know as the Gunslinger first Book. When he did cough up whit him we learn Marten is part of the quasi-immortal wizard that is capable of manifesting each side of him with different form, names and mission as Walter of the All-World or as we know him today, Randal Flagg.

Young Love

Upon his first mission as a Gunslinger Roland travels to the town of Hambry, as a diplomatic but he is not that sort of person is, Cuthbert Allgood but not him. While in Hambry Roland slowly falls in love with Susan Delgado, who has already been selected as the wife of the mayor for his current is unable to bear him a child. In the heat of the moment Roland sleep with Susan impregnating her and leaving to fight John Farsons gang the Big Coffin Hunters, one the member of the gang Eldred Jonas himself an exile Gunslinger. During the fight Susan is killed by the town people for breaking the oath to the Mayor and becoming a witch. Roland witness her death as the burning stake through one of Maerlyn's grapefruit, this one being pink a very special one. From this mystic object he can see his future, his destiny, his tower, the Dark Tower. In that moment Roland die as a boy and was reborn as a hunter, a machine without a heart to go back the Gunslinger.

Powers

As a Gunslinger, Roland's weapons of choice are two large revolver pistols. He essentially has super-human accuracy and speed when firing a pistol. In the revised edition of The Gunslinger, it describes Roland's act of emptying his revolvers and reloading them with shells on his ammo belt as being too fast for the human eye to clearly follow. He can also hypnotize people under controlled settings by twirling one of his shell casings in between his fingers, though this power is rarely used.

Limitations

Roland is, after all, just a man and is not immune to the nature of the world. His biggest limitations being the fact he dislikes magic and any sort of witchcraft and later loses two fingers on his left hand making it impossible for him to hold two guns at once.