When Verence is elevated from a Fool to King of Lancre by Granny Weatherwax, his and Magret's relationship escalates into true love, although because neither party knows how to proceed there is not much progress in the actual relationship. However, given how well the Queen got on with the elder Fool, there is another interpretation. It is assumed that this means he is the son of the elder Fool's wife and Verence I (who was fond of exercising his droit de seigneur), and he is duly crowned Verence II. Nanny Ogg then tells everyone that the Fool is Tomjon's older half-brother.
When Felmet is deposed, Verence I's hidden heir, Tomjon, rejects the throne, preferring his current life of a theatre actor. Eventually he shows some courage in standing up to the Duke and reveals that he witnessed the murder of Verence I.
Similarly, when Nanny Ogg refers to his mother, one of the Beldame family from Blackglass, she speaks in the past tense, implying his mother is deceased as well.Įarly in the novel he befriends the witch Magrat Garlick and this leads to the beginning of a rather unusual relationship, even for a Fool, in which both parties are too embarrassed to discuss their relationship. Verence's own father ran away from Lancre when he was young. He has a runny nose, a strong dislike of custard and absolutely no sense of humour - the latter because he was educated in the Fools' Guild, to which his abusive grandfather sent him as a child. He is a tall gangling man who walks bandilegged and prances in a half crouch so that he appears shorter than he really is.
The Fool had served Verence I as had his father and grandfather before him. Verence first appears in the sixth novel of the Discworld series, Wyrd Sisters, as the court jester or Fool to the monarch of Lancre, Duke Felmet who ascended the throne following the murder of Verence I. Wyrd Sisters Fictional character biography
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