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John Farson (also known as The Good Man) is a pivotal antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse.
He is the posthumous overarching antagonist of The Dark Tower series.
Serving as one three overarching antagonists (alongside Randall Flagg and The Crimson King) of Wizard and Glass, the fourth volume The Dark Tower series.
He was originally a harrier and stage-robber who began to gain a political following in the lands of either Garlan or Desoy while Roland Deschain was still a boy. His sigul was the eye of the Crimson King. He was a tall man and "broad at the brisket".
Farson promised his supporters a fair and democratic society as opposed to the Feudalist-style Affiliation. He even had a John F. Kennedy-like slogan, "Ask not what the Good Man can do for you, but what you can do for him." Due to his allegiance to the Crimson King and his methods of subversion, treason, and mass murder, it is highly unlikely that he ever entertained any notion of installing a society that was even remotely democratic or fair.
Since Farson is not referred to in the main 'present' of the novels, it can be assumed that he is long since dead or deposed since his revolt that resulted in the overthrow and destruction of Gilead; possibly he was a victim of his own 'revolution' or its short-lived success. It can be surmised that the aid he received from Randall Flagg and the Crimson King was considerable, since, a short time after Roland and his friends thwarted his plans in Hambry, his armies still managed to end civilization in Gilead.
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Although Farson's name features large in Wizard and Glass, he does not actually appear in any of the seven 'Dark Tower' volumes and is only referred to by other characters.