-2 CE-

One evening, a Southern Cavale woman started up a communal bonfire, suitable for her entire small village to cook bread and other food items. By happenstance, this particular bonfire was situated over a soft patch of ground heavily concentrated with clay. Much to her surprise, the woman discovered the next day that the ground where the bonfire had been had hardened, and could not be punctured with her basic hoe.

She then brought this discovery to the attention of the other villagers, one of whom decided to hold a clump of clay over the next night's bonfire to see what would happen. To the villagers' surprise, this clay also hardened and formed a solid piece. The final logical step from there was when several of the villagers, now alerted to this discovery's significance, took turns shaping hunks of clay over the bonfire the following night.

All the villagers put the resulting vessels to good use storing grain, which helped them survive when the following year was particularly dry. A few years later, the new discovery of pottery was in common use for storing surplus crops all over the Southern Cavale lands. Eventually, this innovation spread by trade and diffusion to the Northern Cavale.