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Lord Burroughs is the main villain and final boss in Capcom's survival horror game Clock Tower 3.
History
Lord Darcy Burroughs was an wealthy and powerful landowner in the beginning of the 17th century. He married Natalya Hamilton, and had one daughter, Annabel.
He was especially fond of his daughter; however, when he learned of the Ritual of Engagement, an unholy ceremony by which drinking his daughter's blood from her still beating heart would grant him immortality, he planned to murder her.
Ritual of Engagment
The ritual could only be performed during the first hour of her fifteenth year, an event he awaited eagerly. Unfortunately for him, his daughter died in a carriage accident the day before her fifteenth birthday. This infuriated Lord Burroughs into a homicidal rage.He had the coachman and the maid who were with Annabel at the time of her death decapitated, but their deaths did not soothe his bloodlust. He began to kill other victims, from his staff to innocent villagers to his own wife, when she attempted to stop him.
The villagers eventually revolted, and murdered Lord Burroughs in a particularly gruesome manner: he was crushed to death in the cogs of the castle clock tower while fleeing the mob of angry villagers. Before his death he vowed to plague the world with hate and terror as long as the clock tower continued to stand.
Character gameplay
Lord Burroughs is the ancestor of the protagonist Alyssa. Her grandfather Dick, and his dark spirit becomes the driving force behind the game. Burroughs merges with his descendant Dick, and together, they seek to to perform the Ritual of Engagement, by which they will gain immortality in the form of becoming Entities. Alyssa, however, thwarts his attempt at immortality, and successfully destroys him.
See also
"Lord Burroughs"