History WMG / TheDarkTower

* There is precedent for changes in events prior to Roland's trip across the Mohaine: In the Coda Roland gets sent back to the desert, but this time he has Cuthbert's horn. Roland did not have the horn in the previous loop; it had been lost at a point long before Roland entered the Mohaine.

Everything's [[KeystoneWorld set in stone]] in Keystone Earth, isn't it? With Roland presumably going back in time to the moment in the Mohaine Desert, the changes he made to Keystone Earth persist, and as such the Tet Corporation already exists at this point. Stephen King is also alive, and, knowing on some level what happened to him, he rewrites the story so that Roland already has the Horn.

[[WMG: Patrick Daville is the son of Roland Deschain and Susan Delgado.]]

* Dying is one way for a person to travel from one world to another (eg Jake). When Susan Delgado was being burnt in Hambry, perhaps the embryo she was carrying was transferred to the womb of another woman in another world: Sonia Delgado. The supernatural forces surrounding the ancient evil of the charyou tree may have caused the dimensional rift. Sonia bore the child – the biological son of Roland and Susan – thinking that it was hers. When Ralph Roberts is reading Sonia's mind in ''Insomnia'', he finds out 'Patrick, that's his name. She calls him Pat. He's named after his grandfather.' Patrick Delgado was the father of Susan Delgado, meaning that any child of Roland and Susan would have been the grandchild of Patrick – who is often referred to as Pat. It seems that Sonia is aware of her child's origins on some subconscious level. And of course, Patrick Danville's Mid-World heritage would go a long way towards explaining his supernatural abilities and cosmic significance. Besides, it's too damn depressing to think that Susan and her baby just died.

* [[{{Carrie}} Carrie White]] ([[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]])

** Or, perhaps, the point will be in the first book - when Roland lets Jake die for the Tower and the cycle will end when Roland chooses the boy over the quest.

[[WMG: The Cycle Will Repeat Endlessly Because Real-World Stephen King Can't Think of Something Cool Enough to Put At the Top of the Tower]]
As worded. Don't really know if this guess is really all that "wild" though.

* Not sure about the re-write, but in the original version of The Gunslinger, Roland asks Brown is he believed in an afterlife. Brown states that he thinks "this is it." This has two meanings, one is that there is no afterlife, and this is the only world they have, or that they are living in the afterlife

[[WMG: [[TheMist The Arrowhead Project]] was experimenting with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].]]
The Arrowhead Project in ''The Mist'' had a captured Eldritch Abomination, [[CharlesStross which it planned to use against the Soviet Union if the Cold War were to escalate to a nuclear engagement.]] It created the mist, along with a whole host of lesser horrors, and decided to go walking across New England. The monster the narrator sees near the end of the book is the Eldritch Abomination.

[[WMG: The narrator and 'reader' of ''Under the Dome'' are extraterrestrials of a species even more advanced than the Leatherheads.]]
The novel ''Under the Dome'' uses two distinct story telling styles. For most of the book's 1000-odd pages, the story is told in a very traditional, third person style. However, on a very small number of occasions, this changes to a first-person/second-person narrative style which is more conversational and less formal than the rest of the book. On these occasions, too, the narrator mentions being 'invisible' to the characters, but also mentions having a direct physical impact on their environment on at least one occasion (as he and the 'reader' travel along Mainstreet they disturb the traffic lights).

Even for Stephen King, who sometimes writes in a more conversational tone, transitioning so quickly is unusual. Also, as far as I know, this is literally the only story by the author where a narrator who is not a character describes having a direct physical effect on his environment. From this, it can be presumed that the 'narrator' on these occasions is, in fact, a separate entity who is a character in the story. The 'reader' is also a character.

Expanding on this, it is obvious that the two are not observing the people of Chester's Mill. They could do that on any occasion, but they have picked the time when the town is surrounded by an invisible wall to do so (which couldn't possibly give them a clear image of what humanity is like under normal circumstances). This suggests that they are more interested in the behavior of the Leatherhead children who have trapped the people in the town. They seem to realize that the human beings are alive and are thinking creatures, suggesting that they are not the same species as the Leatherheads and removing the possibility that they might be the parents of the children, trying to see what their kids are doing.

Most likely, the two invisible alien characters are members of a society even more advanced than the Leatherheads who are testing their behavior to see if they are worthy to join a group of the most powerful civilizations in the galaxy, or possibly even the Universe. Needless to say, by killing 800 innocent people, the Leatherheads failed their test miserably.