Erik

He was born in a little town in Persia, Son of a man working under construction. His mother sold him away when he was just a little child because of his malformation, having to use a wooden mask or sack on his head as he wandered on the streets looking to survive.
Early on his adult years he started to work as an architect, working for a Sultan in northern Turkey.
He traveled then in a caravan trough Asia as a magician, where he found his loving for the finner arts and music
He afiliated with the construction of the Royal Opera House
During the construction he is able to make a sort of playground for herself within the Opera House, creating trapdoors and secret passageways throughout every inch of the theatre.
He even builds himself a mansion in the cellars of the Opera where he could live far from man's cruelty, of intrinsec hallways.
In his isolation, Erik spends twenty years composing a piece entitled Don Juan Triumphant.
One day, wandering trough the catacombs he found a young ballet dancer humming in her dressing room, he was found emblessed with him, from that day he started giving her lessons, not letting himself show, only with his voice and under the pseudunim of the "Angel of Music" In one chapter after he takes Christine to his lair, he asks him to play him a piece from hisnmasterwork. She refuses and says, "I will play you Mozart, if you like, which will only make you weep; but my Don Juan, Christine, burns." Eventually, after he has wrenched off his mask and seen him deformed face, he begins to play it. Christine says that at first it seemed to be "one great awful sob," but then became alert to its nuances and power.

with his face looking more like a "sunburn", his disfigurement resembles that of a face mildly malformed by a birthmark, wich is covered by a white mask that covers all of his face
He has long black hair and pale skin, He had heterochromia, with his right eye on a subtle grey color, and the left one in a yellowish/ amber.
He has slim and tall figure, aproximetly 6th foot tall.
He wears his long black hair brushed backwards, over a top hat or fedora.
He usually wears fitted suits or fracs, with red velvet and embroided vests, and black cloak.

The Opera Ghost , The Phantom Of the Opera, The Red Death , The Man's Voice, The Angel of Music, Phantom" Are the names giving to the "Ghost" of the Opera from the workers there.
He is reserved, shy even to make contact with Christine even if he is very passionate and desesperate for her, he usually acts charming and cool, using his mask to not only and logicaly hide his deformation, but his low selfesstime he has.
He never felt the love of anyone in his entire life, yearning for a praise, a touch or a caress from someone