the letter above the frank was from one steven deschain of gilead , a gunslinger ( which was to say a knight , squire , peacemaker , and baron ... the last title having almost no meaning in the modem day , despite all john farson 's ranting ) of the twenty-ninth generation descended from arthur of eld , on the side line of descent ( the long-descended gel of one of arthur 's many gillies , in other words ) .