And, if you turn over that cloak, red side out, the outfit is complete. Then again, it could be the powdered donuts. You are on to something. Everyone thinks all this talk about ring-thegns and such has something to do with jewelry.
Ring is close enough.
You go to battle over food, because of food, to raise cuisine levels. Mom's apple pie. You don't think that dragon slumbered all those years on cold, old gold. Someone messed with his doughnuts and it made him irritable. At least I think it was doughnuts.