Lorebook: Carishala

Carishala are pottery fashioned from dust and/or clays compacted together with water and heated up to high degrees to harden and maintain form. They are known for their heat retention and due to their use in slower preparations, for their contribution to taste as well. They can be left plain/undecorated (though sometimes colored) or can be intricately decorated on the outside as well.

Carishala are found amongst many of the peoples of Somewhere Else, and it is unclear who were the original inventors of carishala. It is thought that they are among the oldest kinds of pottery and yet they are still extensively used into later times. They are especially popular among the epitomous Hajyiik clan of Ruktruun in the high mountains of Taurikip, but they can also be found in the deserts amongst the dwellers there and in the far river lowlands. The relative ease of procurement for materials for them and production of them contributes to their widespreadness.