# Walter / The Man in Black · the dark sorcerer · agent of the King

a character (filmed in 2017) of the DT1 (Dark Tower) world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Walter / The Man in Black:DT1:a9f18b⟧

**who —** Walter o'Dim — the Man in Black, Marten, and a face of Randall Flagg — the sorcerer Roland has chased across his whole life.

**what —** The cycle's recurring tempter and herald of the Crimson King: he kills with a word, scatters lies, and lures Roland on.

**where —** Across the desert, through Mid-World, in service of the King who would topple the Tower.

**why —** Because the gunslinger needs a dark mirror — chaos and charm against duty and grief — to chase across the desert.

**how —** By sorcery, prophecy, and cruelty; in the film, by a literal command — ‘stop breathing’ — that the body obeys.

**▷ the .shadow — its User (think TRON) —** the carbon character is cast from a real-life User: **0**, the actor who lent the face in the 2017 film. The analog it shadows: 1 *2*

**the seal —** I am the man in black, and I have fled across this desert in more lives than you can count — catch me and the wheel turns again.

> 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