Tricksters and fools have always been very intriguing characters in mythology, folklore and literature. Their tendency to deconstruct the moral values and conventions of the status quo shatters even the most secure constructs, beliefs, or people. Unlike their contemporaries, the masters of deception float between two worlds; the conscious and the subconscious. This ability develops a highly ambiguous personality, which the trickster may use to motivate others for revolutionary change. Their anomaly evades them from any laws of logic or punishment, why they literally "enjoy the privilege of fools". An all time favourite trickster is Mephisto in Goethe's Faust:
"Part of the Power which would the evil ever do, and ever does the Good."
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