Just a note as I'm in the middle of "the Golden Fool" I have noticed some thing. The Fool has not left its chambers since its old friend who percives it to be female has come to Buck.
The answer perhaps (from admitedly limited knowledge so far) is that the Fool is neither male nor female.
Lets look at this from an Out islander point of view, who has power in an Outisland comunity? Female, so how does one of the fool's people (a Catalyast) appear? Usually they appear as whatever the expectation for power is, for buck male, Outisland female.
