Shardik runs to Roland's camp in the clearing to find Eddie. Thinking them to be the "troublesome fire starters" who lived in his woods years past (delusions presumably brought on by extreme fever and madness), he decides to kill them. When Roland and his ka-tet arrive and set up temporary residence in Shardik's woods, the creature becomes visibly upset. Electronically, the bearings in its "thinking cap" were worn and, according to Eddie, about to freeze up, presumably resulting in the creature's death. Biologically, the bear suffered an extensive infestation of worms. Left on Shardik by the Old Ones is the following:Īfter several millennia of service watching over the beam it had begun to deteriorate and die. It is possible that Shardik might have had a non-cybernetic form apart from the one encountered by Roland and his Ka-tet: Maturin, the turtle beam guardian, is revealed to be a force of the white, and aids Roland and his allies on several occasions, and is revealed to be a powerful "macroversal" spirit in It. Shardik's functional longevity is most likely due its internal nuclear power source. Shardik was known as Mir by tribal groups who once lived in the woods of his domain, which in their language means, the world beneath the world. Shardik was built by North Central Positronics, the mysterious company which was a part of The Imperium thousands of years prior to the events of The Dark Tower Series.
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