... Pyramid Head (red) is a strong, fierce demon that resides in an alternate dark reality created by Alessa's hatred. His duties are to constantly roam the bowels of the basement and sub-levels within the abandoned Grand Hotel. ... At certain times of the day, this demon is summoned by the approach of darkness which plunges the town of Silent Hill and its buildings into another dimension, a sinister dark dimension characterized by decay, death, and suffering. Such is the world of poor Alessa, an innocent young girl burned alive by religious zealots. ... Pyramid Head, carries with him one weapon, a large, heavy sword-like knife that he drags behind him as he roams the bowels of the Hellish basement and it's environs searching for Human souls to avenge his Master, Dark Alessa. He travels with a festering swarm of cockroach-like creatures that feed on the flesh of the living and the suffering, and alert him as to their presence as he is inherently blind due to the pyramid-shaped, metallic head-gear he must wear