Randall Flagg has appeared in a number of King's novels under different names, many of which have the initials R.F. The name that he associates himself with the most and uses for the majority of his appearances in The Dark Tower series is Walter o'Dim. He is described as an accomplished sorcerer and a devoted servant of the Outer Dark with general supernatural abilities such as necromancy, prophecy and influence over people's behavior. Flagg makes his first appearance in the 1978 novel The Stand as the main antagonist, followed by significant roles in The Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower.His goals typically center on spreading destruction and causing conflict, usually through bringing down entire civilizations. In The Eyes of the Dragon, he hoped to bring an entire kingdom to ruin by manipulating various characters; in The Stand, where he is also referred to as the Walkin' Dude, he organizes what is left of the dregs of society after America is almost entirely decimated by the accidental release of a government-made superflu.[4] In The Dark Tower series, Flagg is influential in weakening and destroying the Affiliation, the feudal system of government in Mid-World, under the name Marten Broadcloak.Says King, He's the one that I keep coming back to. Of course, he's in the Dark Tower books. He always appears under different names, but you can always tell who he is because the initials are the same: R.F. He's sort of the way that I sum up all the things that I think about evil: somebody who's very charismatic, laughs a lot, tremendously attractive to men and women both, and somebody who just appeals to the worst in all of us. His face changes, of course. He may look like Tony Curtis to me and he might look like Justin Timberlake to some little teeny-bopper and he might look like somebody else to you, but whatever it is, he's saying the same thing: 'I know all the things that you want and I can give them to you and all you have to do is give me your soul, which really isn't worth that much anyway.' Show less «