Theodore Barrows

"It all began with the first lord of the castle, Theodore Barrows. Rick told the story with a solemn face: Theodore had returned home in the mid-15th century, from the Hundred Years' War with a paralyzing fear of death. Out of what some might call inordinate terror, he sold his soul to a pagan god in exchange for what he thought was immortality. The deity with whom he made this pact was a god of death known as "the Great Father.""

- Stan Gotts describing about Theodore and "Great Father" in the novelization.

Theodore Barrows is the unseen overarching antagonist in the novelization of Clock Tower. He was also an ancestor of the Barrows Family.

Past
Theodore Barrows was in the mid-15th century and became the first lord of the Barrows family. Having fought in the Hundred Years' War, and develop trauma from the war. He later built the Barrows Castle afterwards.

Theodore was very interested in religion and wrote four books. One of them in part touches upon what one could call the primitive religious consciousness of the Europeans.

The "Great Father"
At some point, he joined a cult that praised a dark deity known as "Great Father" and was shown to be afraid of death, possibly from the trauma while being in the war.

Rumor has it that the Great Father demanded sacrifices. Theodore started to abducting children within the country of England and use them in the cult's demonic rituals, which includes cannibalism, torture and massacre; Theodore believed that if he sacrifice children to the dark god he would gain immortality. The death of Theodore is unknown, but his inhuman ways spread among the populace.

Legacy
Although His crimes should have ended after his death, but the dark god, Theodore had summoned continued to haunt the Barrows Clan. Due to this, each generation of the Barrows, a demonic child would be born into the family and continue the massacre Theodore had started many years ago, leading to the creating of the demonic serial killer John Barrows, the first Scissorman in the family.

Trivia

 * It is unclear how Theodore died. It have stated in the novel that many rumors circulated about Theodore's death, that he had sacrificed the children to a dark god, but that he finally was forced to sacrifice himself to the god of his heathen religion. Or that his relatives, afraid that the king might hear of Theodore's deeds, poisoned him. Or that they drowned him in his bathtub.