# Cuthbert Allgood · Roland's first ka-tet

a thread of King canon of the DT1 (Dark Tower) world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Cuthbert Allgood:DT1:031609⟧

**who —** Cuthbert Allgood, Roland's boyhood friend and brother-in-arms of his first ka-tet, with Alain Johns.

**what —** The laughing companion of Roland's youth in Mejis — the warmth the gunslinger had before the Tower took everything.

**where —** In Gilead and Mejis, and on the field where Roland's first ka-tet fell.

**why —** Because we must see what Roland was — a boy with friends and jokes — to grasp what the quest cost him.

**how —** By the bird's skull he speaks to, a sharpshooter's eye, and a friendship that ends in war at Jericho Hill.

**the seal —** We were boys with guns and jokes once — before the Tower, the gunslinger could still laugh, and I was the one who made him.

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