Erik draws from his own inner demons, wanting to make mirrors as horrifying for others as they are for him, drawing up plans for a torture chamber made from mirrors. In their journey back to Nadir's home, they form a shaky friendship that blossoms into a great one when Erik helps Nadir's sickly son.Įrik becomes the Shah's mother, the Khanum's, 'Angel of Death,' and is charged with dreaming up and manufacturing entertaining deaths for criminals. This is where Nadir finds him and he asks Erik to come work for the Shah of Persia. He wears a long black cloak with many hidden pockets for his tricks. Time passes and Erik is a traveling 'magician,' using his talents he picked up from his time with the Gypsies. Shocked by this turn of events, Erik is forced to leave the first home he found kindness in. She toys with him until eventually, she coerces him into showing her his face, and she is so frightened that she falls off the roof of her home to her death. However, Giovanni had a daughter, Luciana, who was both attracted and disgusted by Erik. Now on his own, Erik is taken in by a kind architect, Giovanni, who teaches him his art. One night, after nearly being raped by his kidnapper, Javier, Erik kills him and runs away. He eventually earns the respect of the gypsies after he establishes himself as a primary source of money in their clan, eventually picking up tricks of illusion. During this time, he begins to disassociate with humanity. He is essentially forced into a freak show, being locked in a cage and forced to reveal his face for crowds of terrified onlookers.

He then decided to run away from home, and only then did his mother realize she loved him.Īfter running away from home, Erik is captured by gypsies. When an angry mob burst into their house to kill Erik, Erik escaped but his dog, Sasha, was killed. Erik was deemed prodigious from an early age by the Father who delivered him - he taught him his lessons, and Erik discovers his extraordinary talents for singing, composing, and inventing. She refuses to show her child affection, verbally and physically abusing Erik whenever he tries to get closer with her. His vain mother scorns his deformed appearance, and hides him away in their home because of it. His mother, Madeleine, was a rich person's child, educated in a convent school. His father, named Charles, was a successful, elderly, black haired and good-looking mason. His date of Birth is not named, but looking at his fathers death, it must be in the beginning of August. His father died on the 3rd of May, three months before his birth. Erik is the main protagonist as he appeared in in Susan Kay's Novel PhantomĮrik, better known as The Phantom of the Opera was born in 1831 in St.

Phantom by susan kay