 Gan's role in the novels is very much in line with the concept of God.In the cosmology of Stephen King's multiverse, Gan is that which the High Speech term "The White" refers to.Gan rose from the Prim (implied as being the darkness behind everything) and created the universes and infinite alternate universes that the Dark Tower (a building that serves as a microcosm of all of the multiple realities of the "Dark Tower" series) holds in place.