Cold-tempered, relentless and calculating, he normally maintains a stoic and composed attitude but can easily let himself go to anger, especially when provoked or cornered.

The Hell Priest is an extremely cruel, ruthless and sadistic being. In this novel, Pinhead (identified as 'the Cold Man') has a new confrontation with Kirsty Cotton, to whom he reveals his plans to conquer Hell and capture a mortal who will witness his rise to power (which will turn out to be Harry D'Amour). In 2018, Pinhead appears in another novel: Hellraiser: The Toll, written by Mark Alan Miller under the supervision of Clive Barker and which bridges the gap between Hellraiser: A Film By Clive Barker and The Scarlet Gospels. However, Lucifer's body reconstructs itself and disembowels the Hell Priest who unfortunately lives long enough to blind Harry and rape his medium Norma Paine to death.

He strips Lucifer's body of his armor and becomes the new Lord of Hell. The Hell Priest uses the magic from the magicians to kill Hell's ruling classes, betrays and murders the Order of Gash, and attempts to do the same to Lucifer himself. He takes Felixson to become his slave and turns him into a monster. Elizabeth dies from the baby resulted in the Hell Priest's's rape tearing her apart from the inside, and the Hell Priest feeds the remains of the dead magicians to it. The Hell Priest shows anger over being called 'Pinhead' by Joseph, and kills him a second time for having done so, by infecting his head with worms that end up eating him. Lili dies from the trauma of seeing Heyadat get killed. He kills Poltash with his hooks and chains for trying to escape, rapes Elizabeth, and kills Heyadat for trying to reason with him, in the same way he killed Poltash. They try to figure out a way to stop the Hell Priest, however he finds them. Ragowski's resurrectors are led by Elizabeth Kottlove, and include Lili Saffro, Yashar Heyadat, Arnold Poltash and Theodore Felixson.

The Hell Priest's intentions are exposed once Joseph Ragowski, one of the magicians he killed, is resurrected via the N'guize Working and reveals his plans. He goes against Harry D'Amour, another iconic character within Barker's novels. In the 2015 sequel The Scarlet Gospels, Pinhead returns as the main antagonist and seeks to destroy all magicians in the world, absorbing their power and leaving some alive to be his broken slaves. He is also given actual pins in his head instead of tattoos. The screenplay ignores Pinhead's characterization in the original novella and gives him the role as the lead Cenobite who is obviously male as opposed to being androgynous in the novella. In the screenplay volume, Pinhead's actions are relatively the same within the film's theatrical release. Biography Hellraiser: A Film By Clive Barker

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