Colored himself green but couldn't change colors like he was supposed to, so just froze up and decided that he could change colors then, but it got to freezing temperatures and Death Valley temperatures and nobody wanted to adjust the air conditioning because they were to lazy and then you froze like that forever, never melting because other people put you on display and preserved you in the ice by freezing you in a refrigerator every night.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. — Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind