I got the idea for this after participating in a wood-firing in a ceramics class, which was a lot of work but also really fun.
As for the story behind it, the protagonists in my story have a wood kiln and use it to make a bunch of pottery, a lot of which they trade. Since there aren't any thermometers where they live like we've got, they had to find a different way to moderate the temperature, so the clay wouldn't crack but still would get fired proper. Result ended up being to put the young volcanic dragon in there for a while to feel if the temp was raising at the right rate, so now whenever they fire, this one has kiln sitter duty, lol - at least for the first stage.
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Come to think of it, what all DID people use to measure heat for sensitive operations like clay IRL before thermometers? Was there some kind of a "is it hot enough to burn this thing yet" or "how fast does it turn a piece of metal red", or was it kind of trial and error and have you been working with it long enough to know by the feel+amount of kindling and time waited? Might be something to investigate...
And thanks about my bab, but it's a she