Canopic jar

Canopic jars were a type of container used across many parts of the Realms to store preserved internal organs.
==Description==
These jars were typically made from pottery, like ceramics or clay, or carved from limestone. Many canopic jars were made to have the likeness of some type of animal, but some simply had religious hieroglyphs painted on or etched into them.
==Usages==
Canopic jars were considered to be an essential item for the creation of mummies and mummy lords. After being used to store a mummy's internal organs, the jars had to be kept in the same tomb as it. Some sages claimed that canopic jars stored the life force of a mummy, a relationship akin to a lich and their phylactery, and that destroying the jars could in turn destroy the mummy whose organs they preserved. Though others argued that this was not necessarily true of all mummies.
Beyond mummification, some used canopic jars simply for the purposes of burial or keeping organs preserved for later magical research, as was the case with the ancient star elves.
==Notable Users==
* Some kept canopic jars within decoy chambers of their tombs, holding the organs of the servants they had in life. Such was the case with Brysis of Khaem and Valin Sarnaster.
===Creatures & Sentient Races===
* Canopic jars were used in the tombs of the ancient sarrukh and later by their creations, the yuan-ti, in their own tombs, such as in the Maze of Sseth.
===Individuals===
* Mystic Carrion, a mummy lord in the late 15 century DR, who hid two of his canopic jars within the Undercity of Baldurs Gate and the third in the city's mortuary.
===Nations & Regions===
* In the ancient city-state of Cursrah, canopic jars were kept by the kingdom's priests for the purposes of mummification.
* As a burial practice, canopic jars were placed in the tombs of the ancient Mulhorandi rulers of Thay.
* Beyond the Prime Material, canopic jars could be found in the Domain of Dread known as Har'Akir, often serving as mist talismans. In the Shadowfell city of Evernight, they were used for decoration and could be purchased at the Corpse Market.
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===References===
Category:Containers
Category:Items from the Domains of Dread
Category:Items from Thay
Category:Items from the Unapproachable East
Category:Items from East Faerûn
Category:Items from Cursrah
Category:Items from the Calim Empire
Category:Items from West Faerûn
Category:Items from Tashluta
Category:Items from Southwest Faerûn
Category:Items from Anauroch
Category:Items from Faerûn
Category:Items from Toril