One who crosses separate events until they hold as one telling. The weaving is what makes a story out of things that merely happened.
A compound of story (Greek historia, inquiry, narrative) and weaver (Old English wefan, to weave); the crossing that turns events that merely happened into a telling someone can follow.
Whoever gathers a scatter of separate happenings and binds them into a single thread worth following. Nothing about the events themselves makes them a story; that work belongs entirely to the binding.