#The Fairsex Jester

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Book of Blood: Origin of Perfect Humans

The beginning of society was fraught with chaos. John Smith wandered the barren continent, looking for a place to start the new world. He was lonely, so he made a companion of wheat, blood, and fire, and called her Hella, and she was good. Her temperament was choleric and vivacious. They became a family and planted seeds which would grow into sanctuary, for them and their children.

Hella gave birth to Sondra, who was her grandmother. Sondra was phlegmatic, but even in her occasional laziness proved herself useful. Sondra called forth the life force of earth, and provided the First Feast to the Family, and it was good. But then, from the cornucopia spouted black bile, which gave form to the Fairsex Jester, who was unclothed and ashamed. The crops wilted, and he was driven away. In his wake were wars, famine, death. He corrupted the earth, tainted it, made it an unfit place for the Family to live.

Sondra was sent away for her pity on the Jester. But John of Blood was not unjust. He plucked out her eyes but in doing so gave her new sight, and gave her water to till the earth so she might not starve.

John and Hella bore a son and daughter, who became Math and Logic, and it was good. They erected a wall around their Family, to protect from the corrupted land. When Sondra returned she could not come inside, but implored the Lady of Yellow Bile and Sir Bloody John to take pity on her children. They adopted the best girl and best boy, Art and Language, and it was good.

Sondra cried herself away, forming the phlegmatic river and begetting Labor and Industry, who constructed the outer wall, to protect the phlegmatic family. Here, they worked and played and were content, and it was good.

Each year, the Jester attempts to vault the wall, in doing so tainting the phlegmatic family, making them ugly and deformed. John of Blood saw the image of himself, as Father of Humanity, become sick and enfeebled. Mother Hella did what she could to cure the children of Labor, but those who resisted the cure offered by Industry were given back to the Jester, to be cared for outside, in the hopes that the sun would re-balance their black bile.