Balder

Balder is the main antagonist of Bayonetta and a major character in Bayonetta 2. He is the father of Bayonetta and the husband of Rosa. In his youth, Balder was one of the most important member of the Lumen Sages, being the barer of the "Right Eye of Light" one the Eyes of the World. After being possessed by Loptr, he spent 500 years to prepare the world for the return of Jubileus, The Creator and to warp the mind of the human into thinking that the Angels were purely a force of good while the Demons were purely evil which is false in the Bayonetta universe. In the present day, Balder became CEO of the Ithavoll Group a Paramilitaristic and religious group.

While Balder is an antagonist in the first game, he becomes a playable character in the Tag Climax of the second game.

Before the events of the game
Balder was born on October 25, 1379 in the Lumen Sage clan, as a child Balder display the abilities necessary to become a Lumen Sage. Once he is a sage he fall in love with an Umbra Witch named Rosa, the lover have a daughter that they decide to name Cereza. This broke the tenet that was believed to have kept the balance between the Umbra Witches and Lumen Sages in place, Balder is exiled and Rosa is imprisoned for all eternity. Those actions led to the prophesied Clan War that killed all the Lumen Sages (except Balder who was in exil) and almost all the Umbra Witches allowing Loptr to prepare the return of Aesir, The God of Chaos without any opposition.

During the Clan Wars, Balder is told by the Angels that the witches were planing a "rebelion" since most of the Lumen were killed during the early stages of the conflict that turned in a conflict between Paradiso, Inferno and the Human World and as such the witches were not kept in check by their counterpart. Balder decided to head to Vigrid in order to make sure that the rebelion is stoped, he enact the Witch Hunt to act as a countermesure to the Witches' fighting abilities. Once reunited with Rosa, he learned that Fortitudo lied to him and that it was only a plan to reunite the Sages and the Witches to destroy them and proclaim the reign of the light on the Human World by claiming the Eyes of the World for themselves. While Balder is trying to defend Rosa, Loptr attempted to kill him with one of his card, Rosa takes the hit and die in Balder's arms. While mourning her death Balder is pulled 500 years into the future by future Loptr.

Trivia

 * During the fight with Father Balder in Bayonetta if the player does not steer Bayonetta's lipstick bullet correctly, Father Balder regains his composure and lunges at the screen in which it triggers a game over