Dark Tower

The story begins in the middle of things, with Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger of a world that has moved on, pursuing the man in black across an almost timeless desert landscape. Catching his enigmatic, half-human antagonist is only a first step for Roland on his way to the Dark Tower, where he hopes thet the quickening destruction of Mid-World and the slow breaking of the Beams may be halted or even reversed. The Tower is Roland´s obsession, his grail, his only reason for living when we meet him. But the quest that is his destiny (ka) cannot be undertaken alone, nor solely in the gunslinger´s world...
Ka: like many words in High Speech, ka has much multiple meanings and so is difficult to define precisely. It signifies life-force, consciousness, duty and destiny. In the vulgate, or low speech, it also means a place to which an individual must go. The closest terms in our language are probably fate and destiny.