At least, that's what Flagg set it up to look like. Death by Childbirth: Sasha, while giving birth to Thomas.Cruel Mercy: Anders Peyna, who never tried to hide his dislike for Flagg, suspects Flagg allowed him to live after he stepped down as judge-general instead of killing him, just so Peyna can watch Delain fall into chaos and disorder.Later, when Peter has to send a message to Dennis (who is waiting outside The Needle), he too uses his own blood as ink and a straw from his mattress as pen.
Couldn't Find a Pen: The 400-year-old letter by Leven Valera was written by him in his own blood and the sharpened Shaft of a Spune. One such cover's tagline is "Once upon a time, there was a terror." Covers Always Lie: Some later editions tried to market the book as being a horror novel. He gets a chance to demonstrate it when he puts an arrow through Flagg's eye. Chekhov's Skill: Archery is mentioned as being Thomas's best skill, the one thing he is better at then Peter. The 400-year-old letter from Leven Valera, that Peter found when imprisoned in the Needle, is later used by him to write a message for Dennis because it's the only writable material available to Peter. Peter's need for a napkin at every meal and his mother's old dollhouse are this as well. The peephole in the dragon skull that Flagg shows Thomas, where Thomas sees Flagg poison his father and Dennis finds out, years later, that Peter was innocent, bringing about Flagg's downfall. Flagg has also been identified as He Who Walks Behind The Rows from Children of the Corn. In a later scene in The Dark Tower, Roland mentions that his grandfather Alaric "Henry" Deschain had once traveled to Delain to slay the last dragon, only to discover that another king had already beaten him to it. In the Dark Tower series, Roland mentions that he met Thomas and his butler Dennis during their pursuit of Flagg after the end of the book. 
Canon Welding: Flagg first appeared in The Stand.Big Bad: Randall Flagg, the king’s Chief magician.Bedsheet Ladder: Peter manages to make one out of threads plucked from the embroidered napkins given to him daily and woven together on the tiny but functional loom in the dollhouse he requested to keep in his cell over the span of several years.They used beer and piss, and the text notes that most of the piss was beer, because Roland brought a lot with him when he went hunting, and he wasn't stingy with it. All-Natural Fire Extinguisher: When King Roland slays the titular dragon at the start of the story, his men work to put out a fire that the dragon had started.If you hate him because of the things he did - and the things he allowed to be done - I will understand but if you do not pity him a little as well, I will be surprised.
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