# The Beams · the six lines that hold the Tower

a thread of King canon of the DT1 (Dark Tower) world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦The Beams:DT1:1b53c9⟧

**who —** The Beams — six lines of force binding the Dark Tower, running between twelve portals each kept by a Guardian (Shardik the bear among them).

**what —** The architecture of the multiverse: cut the Beams and the Tower falls; the Crimson King's whole war is aimed at breaking them.

**where —** Across the sky of every world, converging on the Tower.

**why —** Because a nexus needs structure — the Beams are the load-bearing physics of all worlds at once.

**how —** By tension between the portal-Guardians, holding the Tower upright, until the King's harvest begins to snap them.

**the seal —** Six of us hold the Tower up; break us and all the worlds slide into Discordia — which is precisely what the Red One wants.

> 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.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · DT1 · The Dark Tower · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0