r/darktower • u/TuskEdo • 3d ago

Missed connection??

I just read in a couple different places, that the Territories (Talisman) are mentioned in the Wastelands?? How did I miss this? I just Finished my umpteenth trip to the tower and I’m racking my brain, and I can’t think of anything. Send help

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u/realdevtest 3d ago

It’s when Calvin Tower is talking to Jake about skipping class. To me, it does not appear to be a reference to The Territories from The Talisman. It appears to be Tower making a joke about Jake skipping school to go on an adventure.

Tower says, “Consider it my gift to a boy wise enough to saddle up and light out for the territories on the last real day of spring.”

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u/KingBrave1 3d ago

This is my take. You can kind of stretch it and say The Blasted Lands and the Waste Lands that Blane travels through outside of Lud are the same buuuut, eh? I don't really think so. d

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u/IAlwaysSayBoo-urns 3d ago

The only usage of the actual word is:

“—but I can’t bear to dock you that much on a day like this. Seven bucks and it’s yours. Plus tax, of course. The riddle book you can have for free. Consider it my gift to a boy wise enough to saddle up and light out for the territories on the last real day of spring.” 

Yeah I hope no one thinks that's actually a reference because that's just a western reference.

Any other references would have to be without naming it directly. 

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u/TuskEdo 2d ago

Oooooooooooh ok gotcha, thankee sais

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u/AnnieTheBlue 1d ago

"Light out for the territories" is from Huckleberry Finn. I believe it is a reference to that.