One who brings a work into being. In this house the creator keeps sovereignty over what they made.
Latin creator (one who brings forth, a maker), from creare (to bring forth, produce); one who brings a work into being and, by the oldest sense of the root, remains bound to what they made.
The Latin agent noun names the bringing-forth itself, not a handover afterward — a creator was never, at the root, someone who makes a thing and then lets it go. This house keeps the word closer to its oldest sense than most places do.