— Gabrielle Deschain
Gabrielle Deschain is the mother of Roland and the wife of Steven Deschain whom she married at sixteen. Her maiden name is Gabrielle Verriss and is sometimes referred to as Gabrielle-of-the-Waters. She sung the Baby-Bunting Rhyme to Roland when he was a child which is where he first heard the word "chassit" and the early years of her marriage passed smoothly as she raised her son, tended to Steven and became acquainted with the aristocracy.
She was seduced by the court magician, Marten Broadcloak when he was made Steven chief advisor, and the affair continued for at least two years though Steven knew the entire time. When Roland learns of this, he is forced into an early test of manhood. She left for Debaria to seek repentance for her actions at Our Lady Of The Rose, she confessed to the friar there only to learn it is Marten and so she is seduced again. Her seduction was both physical and mental, for she was persuaded into an attempted assassination of her husband as well as agreeing to steal Maerlyn's Grapefruit.
She steals the sphere, too ashamed or even scared to kill her husband, Roland goes to confront her knowing she took the sphere but he is tricked by The Demon of the Grapefruit into believing that she was Rhea and so he killed her. She died carrying a belt that she had made for Roland, presumably as a peace offering. Roland wore the blood-stained belt for many years.
She is spared from the flaming pits of Naar when Marten arrives too late to resurrect her by placing some of his blood into her mouth so she will reach the clearing at the end of the path.