Crimson King

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Unknown
Alias	The Crimson King The Devil The Antichrist Big Red Lord of Discordia Lord of Chaos Lord of the Spiders Los Los the Red Los the Crimson King The King Ram Abbalah Red Daddy Satan The Kingfish The Red King Los the Red King The Mysterious King
Origin	Insomnia (1994)
Allies	Randall Flagg Maerlyn
Powers / Skills	Telekinesis Immortality Necromancy High intelligence Shapeshifting Elemental abilities Atmokinesis Vast dark magic Control over the Deadlights Reality warping Regeneration Plot manipulation Animakinesis
Goals	Knock over the Dark Tower to destroy the multiverse and remake it in his image. Kill Roland. Destroy the Gunslingers (all failed).
Moral Event Horizon	Enslaving many psychic beings just so he could use them to successfully knock over the Dark Tower.
Kill Count	Incalculable The entire multiverse (attempted)
Worst Crimes	Malefic Mass murder Conspiracy Attempted mass omnicide Enslavement Abuse of power Terrorism Corruption Usage of necromancy with criminal intent Grand theft animarum
Type of Villain	Satanic Mastermind

“	All hail the Crimson King.	„
	~ The Crimson King.

The Crimson King is one of the overarching antagonists of the Stephen King mythos.

He serves specifically as the main antagonist of the novels Insomnia and Black House and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Maerlyn) of The Dark Tower series.

He is a demonic entity who seeks to remake the entire multiverse in his own sick and twisted image by destroying the Dark Tower, which would lead to the destruction of the multiverse.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• While it is stated at one point that he was born of chaos, suggesting him to be a literal incarnation of evil, the Crimson King was born from a union between Arthur Eld and a primordial entity from the Prim, the Crimson Queen. Since Randall Flagg is a demonic hybrid and It is a primordial entity, and both can understand human morality, it confirms that he has moral agency.
• He is responsible for almost everything bad that happened within the entire multiverse, as he supported both Randall Flagg and John Farson, who would go on to cause multiple problems within the multiverse, and fathered Mordred, who ate many people.
• He has ordered many deaths in the past, including those of children.
• He has attempted to destroy the Dark Tower multiple times, and if he ever succeeded, the multiverse would end up being destroyed, which would lead to the deaths of countless people. It is stated that he would have recreated it in his own sick and chaotic image, only to end up ruling it.
• He enslaved multiple psychic beings in the past and used them to try to destroy the Dark Tower, forcing them against their own will to attempt mass omnicide.
• As the series continues, he continues to become more and more insane with his urges to destroy the Dark Tower. He becomes so insane that he kills everyone around him (those being his minions and himself) by making them consume poison, just so he can become an undead abomination so he can kill the protagonists, destroy the Dark Tower, and go through with his goals. This shows that the Crimson King really has no care for others and is truly obsessed only with his own sick goals.
• He has no redeeming qualities at all and has no excuse for his actions, just being a tyrannical omnicidal maniac who is truly willing to do anything to destroy the entire multiverse, killing countless people in the process, just so he can recreate it in his twisted image.
• Despite being an eldritch abomination, he is shown to be indeed rather intelligent and have a malevolent personality.

Trivia

• The Crimson King, Maerlyn, and Randall Flagg are the only Pure Evils in The Dark Tower series.

External Links

• Crimson King on the Villains Wiki.
• Crimson King on the Ultimate Evil Wiki.
• Crimson King on the Stephen King Wiki.
• Crimson King on the Dark Tower Wiki.
• Crimson King on the Devil Wiki.