Characters in The Waste Lands

Jake Chambers

The boy caught in a time paradox whom the ka-tet must draw back across worlds.

Also in The Gunslinger, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower

Roland Deschain

The last gunslinger, leader of the ka-tet, whose mind is splitting under a paradox from his earlier passage through this world.

Also in The Little Sisters of Eluria, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, Wizard and Glass, The Wind Through the Keyhole, Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower

Eddie Dean

A former heroin addict from New York learning the gunslinger's way, who carves the key that lets Jake cross over.

Also in Wizard and Glass, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower

Susannah Dean

A woman drawn from 1960s New York, now a fierce member of the ka-tet.

Also in Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower

Blaine the Mono

An insane sentient monorail whose only price for passage is that the passengers beat him at a riddle contest.

Gasher

A surviving Gray fighter in the ruined city of Lud who kidnaps Jake.

Detta Walker

The volatile second personality that shares Susannah's body and complicates the ka-tet's journey.

Also in The Drawing of the Three

Andrew Quick

Talitha Unwin

Henry Dean

Calvin Tower

Aaron Deepneau

Richard Fannin

Oy

A billy-bumbler, an unusually intelligent raccoon-like creature, who joins the ka-tet and bonds with Jake.

Also in Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower

Shardik (Dark Tower)

A cyborg bear guarding one of the Beams that hold up the world, whom the travellers meet in the woods.