The Persian first appears during Christine and Raoul's mad flight from the rooftops and warns them to go a different way. Leroux writes that he has " a noble and generous heart" and is very concerned for the fate of others. He is described in the novel as having an " ebony skin, with eyes of jade", and he wears a short astrakhan cap along with normal dress clothes. He has a Persian servant whose name is Darius. He became known as a fixture of the Opera, considered an eccentric Persian and allowed to wander backstage where he pleased. He later traveled to Paris and took up living in a small, middle-class flat in the Rue de Rivoli, across the street from the Tuileries, on the modest pension he received from the Persian government. Being kindhearted, he helped Erik escape from Persia when the Shah-in-Shah ordered him executed, a trick that involved presenting a body washed up on the shore as Erik's. He refers to these times as "the rosy hours of Mazenderan". yuhĪccording to his account of himself in the novel, the Persian served as the chief of police (daroga) in the court of the Shah of Persia during the years that Erik was there. In the novel, he is always seen wearing dress clothes and a tight-fitting cap. In the musical, his character and Madame Giry's are added together, as she shows Raoul where Erik lives, however, unlike the Persian, she does not accompany him to Erik's lair. He appears in the Susan Kay fan novel Phantom as a major character. He is referred to by Erik as the " daroga", Persian for " police-chief", and his memoirs are featured in three chapters of the novel. i n the book he is the one who tells most of the background of Erik's history. The Persian is a major character from the Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera.
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