The Dark Tower Cosmology Page

Hello. This is the page that describes how the Comsology of the Dark Tower series and all its tie ins work.

Layers
The Dark Tower follows a similar cosmological model like the SCPverse does, as in there an endless amount of layers, everyone of which transcends the one below. It goes on forever and above, in a cell that is like a prison, sits the Crimson King who wants nothing more than to destroy the entire Dark Tower.

Physical multiverse
The Dark Tower has a physical multiverse. Every "physical" layer consists of an endless amount of universes, each one of them being an infinite multiverse in size. Roland Deschain originally saw 600 floors when he finally achieved his goal of being infront of the Dark Tower, however that can be attributed to the fact that the Tower appeared different to him than it would appear to others.

How big a universe is
A single universe contains another endless universes.

"Imagine the sand of the Mohaine Desert, which you crossed to find me, and imagine a trillion universes - not worlds by universes - encapsulated in each grain of that desert; and within each universe an infinity of others. We tower over these universes from our pitiful grass vantage point; with one swing of your boot you may knock a billion billion worlds flying off into darkness, a chain never to be completed.

As an universe contains an endless amount of universes itself. It's also said that a single atom contains an entire universe, which would mean that one atom alone is already an infinite multiverse as it gives birth to an endless chain of infinities.

"Perhaps you saw what place our universe plays in the scheme of things - as no more than an atom in a blade of grass. Could it be that everything we can perceive, from the microscopic virus to the distant Horsehead Nebula, is contained in one blade of grass that may have existed for only a single season in an alien time-flow? What if that blade should be cut off by a scythe? When it begins to die, would the rot seep into our universe and our own lives, turning everthing yellow and brown and desiccated? Perhaps it's already begun to happen. We say the world has moved on; maybe we really mean that it has begun to dry up"

Multiple worlds in one layer
''In world upon world - in worlds strung side by side in multiple dimensions throughout infinity - evils shrivel and disperse: despots choke to death on chicken bones; tyrants fall before assassins' bullets, before the poisoned sweetmeats arrayed by their treacherous mistresses; hooded torturers collapse dying on bloody stone floors. Ty’s deed reverberates through the great, numberless string of universes, revenging evil as it spreads. Three worlds over from ours and in the great city there known as Londinorium, Turner Topham, for two decades a respected member of Parliament and for three a sadistic pedophile, bursts abruptly into flame as he strides along the crowded avenue known as Pick-a-Derry. Two worlds down, a nice-looking young welder named Freddy Garver from the Isle of Irse, another, less seasoned member of Topham’s clan, turns his torch upon his own left hand and incinerates every particle of flesh off his bones.''

''Up, up in his high, faraway confinement, the Crimson King feels a deep pain in his gut and drops into a chair, grimacing. Something, he knows, something fundamental, has changed in his dreary fiefdom. - Black House''

Long-Time Levels
The physical multiverse is transcended by layers which contain beings that are almost immortal and eternal. Beings such as the representation of Death come from these layers.

''Clotho: [Be content with this: beyond the Short-Time levels of existence and the Long-Time levels on which Lachesis, Atropos, and I exist, there are yet other levels. These are inhabited by creatures we could call All-Timers, beings which are either eternal or so close to it as to make no difference. Short-Timers and Long-Timers live in overlapping spheres of existence-on connected floors of the same building, if you like-ruled by the Random and the Purpose. Above these floors, inaccessible to us but very much a part of the same tower Of existence, live other beings. Some of them are marvelous and wonderful,-others are hideous beyond our ability to comprehend, let alone yours. These beings might be called the Higher Purpose and the Higher Random... or perhaps there is no Random beyond a certain level,we suspect that may be the case, but we have no real way of telling. We do know that it is something from one of these higher levels that has interested itself in Ed, and that something else from up there made a countermove. That countermove is you, Ralph and Lois.] - Insomnia''

All-Time levels
All-Time Levels are ones from which beings of the Higher Purpose and the Higher Random rule over. These are beings that are above death and are as close to eternal as one can be.

Other than that, there isn't a lot of information when it comes to this level.

Macroverse
The Macroverse is the void beyond the Dark Tower. It is the void that surrounds the multiverse and when Gan let the Tower fall after he moved on, there was Maturin to catch it. Maturin completely transcends the multiverse and it's implied that there are an infinite amounts of lesser version of Maturins, all carried by his true form.

From the fictional notes of Stephen King in Song of Susannah:

''I had a dream last night that I think breaks the creative logjam on It. Suppose there’s a kind of Beam holding the Earth (or even multiple Earths) in place? And that the Beam’s generator rests on the shell of a turtle? I could make that part of the book’s climax. I know it sounds crazy, but I’m sure I read somewhere that in Hindu mythology there’s a great turtle that bears us all on his shell, and that he serves Gan, the creative overforce. Also, I remember an anecdote where some lady sez to some famous scientist, “This evolution stuff is ridiculous. Everyone knows that a turtle holds up the universe.” To which the scientist (wish I could remember his name, but I can’t) replies, “That may be, madam, but what holds up the turtle?” Scornful laugh from the lady, who says, “Oh, you can’t fool me! It’s turtles all the way down.” Ha! Take that, ye rational men of science! Anyway, I keep a blank book by my bed, and have gotten so I write down a lot of dreams and dream elements w/o even fully waking up. This morning I’d written Remember the Turtle! And this: See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; he holds us all within his mind. Not great poetry, I grant you, but not bad for a guy who was three-quarters asleep when he wrote it! Tabby has been on my case about drinking too much again. I suppose she’s right, but…''

Void in which IT lives
''one side or the other. And beyond him, coming up fast, Richie could see/sense something that finally dried up his laughter. It was a barrier, something of a strange, non-geometrical shape that his mind could not grasp. Instead his mind translated it as best it could, as it had translated the shape of It into a Spider, allowing Richie to think of it as a colossal gray wall made of fossilized wooden stakes. These stakes went forever up and forever down, like the bars of a cage. And from between them shone a great blind light. It glared and moved, smiled and snarled. The light was alive. (deadlights) More than alive: it was full of a force - magnetism, gravity, perhaps something else. Richie felt himself lifted and dropped, swirled and pulled, as if he were shooting a fast throat of rapids in an innertube. He could feel the light moving eagerly over his face. . . and the light was thinking. This is It, this is It, the rest of It.''

IT resides in a void outside of the Macroverse. Not much about it is known, but it is known that IT in its true form is eternal, beyond death and fate itself and is above the multiverse the same way Maturin is.

Gan's void
Gan or as he is also often called "the Other" resides in a void beyond both Maturin and Pennywise. The latters are nothing more than a mote of dust in his mind. He's the author of all there is and everything that happens is a kin to a fictional story sung by Gan.