Colored Soul-Globes: High Fantasy

“Let it be colored,” he ordered, when he looked at the soul bauble of the little girl about to be born. “Let it be swirled with gold and blue and red and all the fine and fabulous colors, for I am sick of these blank creatures that walk about with their precious milky soul-globes and debate their relative purity based up the curve of one swirl or the feather of another.” And so it was done, and so the most peculiar arc of the little girl’s life began, as the whim of one who was soon to be widely deemed mad. He was taken from his position about a year later, and executed for profaning the holy temple he’d served in, but not before he’d created a hundred such riotous soul-globes. Many of the--

Inspiration: "color."
Story Potential: High, at least as a background setting.
Notes: There's always something a little intriguing about the notion of one person being chosen in some way to be special above the others, isn't there? And if it's at the whim of a mad/holy man, so much the better!