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According to his own words to Fitz, the Fool was born far, far to the south and of ordinary folk. His land is past the edges of every map [[Verity]] has ever seen, and past the edges of the maps in those countries. One must go south, and then east across a sea to find a long peninsula, and on its tip the village where he was born. He had a loving mother who had a long, dark curling hair and green eyes. He had two cousins as fathers, as was the custom of that place: one was broad and swarthy and full of laughter, ruddy-lipped and brown-eyed farmer who smelled of rich earth and open air. The other was as narrow as his cousin was wide, gold to his bronze. He had blue eyes and was a poet and songster. The Fool also had an older sister with golden hair who used to spoil him outrageously. When he first arrived at [[Buckkeep]] he delibarately let people think that he had little understanding of the [[Six Duchies language]] although that was not the case. His mother tongue however was something else, and for decades he did not use it at all until he met [[Prilkop]].

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.

Throughout the years, 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 personas of Lord Golden and Amber for himself without rousing suspicion, though it is never revealed for certain ''why'' this happens. [[Prilkop]], who undergoes the same development himself, leaving him completely black, gives a possible explanation that the 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 Woman]] stayed completely white all of her life despite being older then the Fool.