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<div class="floatright">[[Image:Fool-sketch.jpg|thumb|Sketch of the Fool by [[John Howe]]]]</div>
The Fool is a character of many roles. He was named [[Beloved]] by his mother but only a few people know about that identity.[[Fitz]] first meets him as the jester of King [[Shrewd]], . The Fool himself claims he is the [[White Prophet]] to and that Fitz is his [[Catalyst]]. After the [[Red Ship War]] he spends a time in [[Bingtown]] and the [[Fitz|Fitz'sPirate Islands]] as a female carpenter called [[CatalystAmber]]. Named by his mother (and eventually by Fitz) as ''Beloved''When he returns to [[Buck]], following he assumes the role of a tradition [[Jamaillian]] noble called [[Lord Golden]] and travels to [[Aslevjal]] to change the fate of his people by exchanging names the world knowing that represent it will be the bonds they share with one anotherend of his life.
==Childhood and schooling==
According to his own words to Fitz, the Fool was born far, far to the south and of ordinary folk. He had a loving mother and two brothers as fathers, as was the custom of that place. His colouring was different from the beginning, marking the fact that somewhere in the distant past a [[White]] had mingled his blood with an ordinary folk and that the baby was born to take up the tasks of that folk. That is why he was soon sent to a place where he was educated and all his dreams were recorded. When he was old enough, he was taught the art of the quill so he could record his dreams more precisely. One day he claimed to be the [[White Prophet]] of this age but his masters said it wasn't possible, for there can only be one White Prophet for each time, and that they had already prepared her and sent out to fulfill her destiny. They couldn't tell him what he was if he wasn't a White Prophet although he had all the traits of one, and he soon ran away.
==The King's jester==The Fool was taken into the Royal Court at [[Buckkeep]] as an anomaly, his incredibly pale colouring and slender and flexible form marking him out as something unusual. He became devoted to King Shrewd, using his position close to the King to observe everything, often making cutting or blunt remarks that could be laughed away as a Jesters prattle. It was said that he was a gift from the [[Bingtown traders]], but that has never been confirmed. To Fitz he said that he sold himself to the king much the same way as Fitz did: loyalty for protection. He had been at the court scarce a season before he heard the rumour of Fitz' existence and knew he had found what he had started out to look for, his Catalyst.
While he kept himself away from most of the population of Buckkeep [(and they, in turn were wary of him]), he and Fitz formed a friendship, clumsy at first, but through the trilogies years it grows into a bond above and beyond mere friends.
== The gender of the Fool ==
There is much debate about the sex of the Fool. While 'the Fool' protects his claim to masculinity throughout the first trilogy; years in Buckkeep as the jester and the journey to the [[Mountain Kingdom]], his appearance as a woman called [[Amber]] in the Liveship books Bingtown confuses the matter. There are also several good arguments for his being female made by [[Starling]] in the third [[Assassin]] book. However, when the Fool later returns to Buckkeep in later books, it is in the guise of another male, [[Lord Golden]].
Generally, '"the Fool' " and '"Lord Golden' " are given masculine pronouns - and '"Amber' " is given feminine - as it is recognised that all three 'characters', though tecnhically technically the same person, are distinct facets of the character as a whole.
== The Fool's physical appearance ==
Throughout the trilogiesyears, the Fool developes severe fevers (often at the most inapporopriate moments) that leave him a slightly darker shade of gold by his skin peeling as if sunburnt (a process which causes slight itchyness and a lot of irritation) and his iris's changing colour, enabling him to create the new persona's personas of Lord Golden and Amber for himself without rousing suspitionsuspicion, though it is never revealed for cetain certain ''why'' this happens. [[Prilkop]] gives a possible explanation(, who undergoes the same developement development himself, leaving him completely black.) , gives a possible explanation that the fever's fevers relate to the [[White Prophet]]'s impact on the future and fate. 'Perhaps as we cause change, we change'. This is a reasonable enough explanation, as the unsuccesful White Prophet the [[Pale WomenWoman]] stayed completely white all of her life despite being older then the Fool.
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