Bardic Tales: Dinoss and the Dragon

A story told in many lands by many minstrels. It's well known as a tale that is adapted by its teller in response to their audience on each night.
Dinoss was a merchant man, and one day, as he travelled through a forest glade to return home, he came upon a woman at the roadside. The pair travelled together and soon fell in love. They returned to Dinoss's home and married.Each night this woman would lock herself in the house's weaving room. She insisted that Dinoss could never come and gaze upon her at work. She made him swear he wouldn't look, to the sun and the moon and the waves of the ocean. And in return, each morning she emerged with the most beautiful silks and tapestries she had woven through the night.Dinoss and his household became truly prosperous in this time.But after years had passed and the pair had a child, Dinoss could no longer bear not knowing what his wife did each night in the weaving room. He put his eye to the keyhole, but could not see through. He put his head to the floorboards, but could not gleam anything from the crack at the bottom of the door. He only heard the furious click click click of the weave as his wife spun. He couldn't stand it any more. He burst into the room and gazed upon a beautiful dragon before the weave, pulling her shimmering scales off to spin into tapestries like no other.The dragon was distraught. It fled from the home, weeping. It could no longer stay in the home with the promise broken. Years passed, and Dinoss waited every night in the weave room. He beseeched to the air for his wife to return home, for his sake and their child's. She never could. But she returned to the side of the house, just outside the weave room, and wept each night as only wooden walls separated her and her husband. Some mornings Dinoss would fight great fabrics left in front of the house, and so his child never wanted for anything all through its adolescence.He never met eyes with his wife again though, for broken oaths are not such simple things to fix.Many bardic tales featuring draconic children, sorcerers of many kinds, or humans with aspects of a dragon say their protagonist is the child featured in the tale of Dinoss and the dragon.
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