Wizard's Rainbow
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The Wizard's Rainbow is a group of magical objects that play an important role in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It is made up of 13 glass balls, each one representing one of the Twelve Guardians of the Beams that hold the Dark Tower up, the last representing the Dark Tower.
They are also referred to as "Bends in the rainbow" by Roland's father. The Bends as a group are referred, to as a group, at least twice in the series, the first being when Roland is talking with his father just before leaving for Mejis and the Outer Arc, the second when the ka-tet are standing in front of the glass gate. Those identified are the Pink, Black, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow and Purple. Each Bend is associated with a terminus of one of the Beams, plus Black, which stands in the middle of the Rainbow for the Dark Tower.
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[edit] The Green Bend
According to Roland's father, it is or was reputed to be in Lud.
[edit] The Orange Bend
Last known to be in Dis
[edit] The Blue Bend
Last seen with a band of Slow Mutants; however, they lost it around 63 years before the series began.
[edit] The Pink Bend
Was in the posession of John Farson, but was left with the witch Rhea in Mejis when Roland and friends were sent there. Roland managed to take it home with him to his father, but it was stolen after the death of Gabrielle Deschain. Roland and his new ka-tet come across it in the Green Palace after a confrontation with the man in black at the end of Wizard and Glass.
[edit] The Black Bend, AKA Black Thirteen
Given to Pere Callahan by the Man in Black behind the scenes while Roland was chasing him in the first book of the series. He was transported to Calla by it. He subsequently hid it away after settling down in Calla. Later when Roland's ka-tet arrive in Wolves of the Calla, he offers it to Roland as incentive for their aid, though unbeknownst to him, Roland would have helped anyway.
Mia steals it after the showdown with the Wolves of Calla and uses it to escape to the New York of 1999, where she planned to give birth to Mordred. Jake and Pere Callahan follow and retrieve the Black Thirteen, then store it in a locker beneath the World Trade Center. It is not known what happened to it afterwards.
