First, Happy Canada Day to my Canadian readers!
This is a tale of romance against incredible odds--why the priestess is sad and why her father doesn't want her to marry the servant varies from teller to teller, as is the item the hero must retrieve. While the story is often told in one sitting, so many episodes of the servant's journey have been written down and told that it is considered a story in itself.
The basic bones of the story, as Dorian tells it:
A servant to a wealthy lord notices that the priestess of the town has suddenly gotten depressed and refuses to come out of her chamber, save for her duties at the temple.
The servant has known the priestess for a long time, so the two of them are as close as brother and sister. When he questions her father about it, he is ran out of the house, saying she is due to marry a rich man (who she has never loved)
Later the Seer of the temple says that he can still prevent the priestess from being married to someone she has never loved, if he finds one of the strongest pendants a priestess of her rank can wear--the Pendant of Spirits (Dorian prefers the servant to find the pendant itself, while other minstrels may have him find pieces of the pendant)
After a long journey, he presents the pendant to her as a sign of his love. Her father reluctantly agrees to let them marry, and they all live happily ever after.
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