# Ka · the wheel · fate and duty

a thread of King canon of the DT1 (Dark Tower) world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Ka:DT1:bf82c8⟧

**who —** Ka — destiny, duty, the turning of the wheel; the force that draws ka-tets together and spends them for its purpose.

**what —** The law of Roland's world: not quite fate, not quite will — the current you serve or are broken upon, and the engine of the recurrence.

**where —** Through every world and every life of the gunslinger.

**why —** Because the cycle's meaning lives here — is the loop a punishment or a mercy? — and ka is the name of the question.

**how —** By drawing the right people through the right doors at the right time, and by turning, always turning, like a wheel.

**the seal —** I am a wheel, and I do not stop for love or grief — but I let him keep the Horn this turn, and that is the most I ever grant.

> a catalogued personification of Stephen King's The Dark Tower (© Stephen King; the 2017 film © Sony/MRC), under the DLW standard — commentary and cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders.

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