A child is born... His??mother's only gift is a mask. Precocious and??gifted, he will live friendless and alone. taunted and??abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged??again-as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A brilliant??outcast... the world is his home. Filled with??bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a??stonemason's apprentice in Rome... a dark magician at??the treacherous Persian court... and finally, the??genius behind the construction...