Why this word is great
STORYTELLER — [Noun] A person who relates stories, whether factual or fictional, to an audience. From story ("a narrative, tale") + teller ("one who tells"). Unlike a "narrator," which denotes the formal voice within a tale's architecture, or a "fabulist," which implies deliberate invention, often with a whiff of the legendary or deceptive, a storyteller is the living conduit for the craft itself. It is the warmth of a voice shaping shadows into giants by a fire, the journalist marshaling disparate facts into a compelling arc, and the child explaining a scrape with elaborate, earnest detail—the fundamental act of imposing a spine of meaning upon the scattered vertebrae of event, a momentary architect of order against the silent, accumulating dark.