<P> Roland Deschain , son of Steven Deschain , was born in the Barony of Gilead , in In - World . Roland is the last surviving gunslinger , a man whose goal is finding and climbing to the top of the Dark Tower , purported to be the very center of existence , so that he may right the wrongs in his land . This quest is his obsession , monomania and geas to Roland : In the beginning the success of the quest is more important than the lives of his family and friends . He is a man who lacks imagination , and this is one of the stated reasons for his survival against all odds : he can not imagine anything other than surviving to find the Tower . </P>
<P> Roland Deschain , son of Steven Deschain , was born in the Barony of Gilead , in In - World . Roland is the last surviving gunslinger , a man whose goal is finding and climbing to the top of the Dark Tower , purported to be the very center of existence , so that he may right the wrongs in his land . This quest is his obsession , monomania and geas to Roland : In the beginning the success of the quest is more important than the lives of his family and friends . He is a man who lacks imagination , and this is one of the stated reasons for his survival against all odds : he can not imagine anything other than surviving to find the Tower . </P>
the dark tower series is centred around a character who is known as a
the dark tower series is centred around a character who is known as a
gunslinger
gunslinger