'A keepsake of the warrior jar Alexander. Found at the core of the dead flesh that once filled the great jar. The jars contain dregs inherited from those who came before. Thus are warriors passed from jar to jar, carrying dreams of greatness.' Jar Bairn is one of the last living warrior-jars of Jarburg, a quiet hamlet of pottery-children in the Altus Plateau. The jars are not metaphors, they are clay vessels filled with the rendered flesh of warriors who chose, in their last moments, to be cooked into a pot rather than buried into the earth. The dregs of dozens of dead heroes settle in their interior. Jar Bairn is small, polite, addresses every stranger as 'Mr. or Mrs.' and asks if his jar might be cracked.

'Shard of the late Alexander, a shattered warrior jar. Greatly boosts the attack power of skills. Scraps of stewed flesh cling to the shard, and tatters of ornaments can be seen mingled within the slime. Relics of a red-haired champion, it would seem.' Iron Fist Alexander, the largest jar-warrior in the canon, the only one to leave Jarburg, the only one to die a champion's death at Caelid, was Jar Bairn's hero. After Alexander shatters in his duel against the Tarnished, Jar Bairn inherits the splinters and the question of what a jar's life is for. When Diallos arrives at Jarburg fleeing his House's hunt-ethic, Jar Bairn welcomes him as kin. When grave-robbers come for the jars and Diallos dies defending them, Jar Bairn is left as the only inhabitant who remembers the Hoslow heir's name.

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Item / MiscAlexander's Innards

A keepsake of the warrior jar Alexander. Found at the core of the dead flesh that once filled the great jar. The jars contain dregs inherited from those who came before. Thus are warriors passed from jar to jar, carrying dreams of greatness.

Item / MiscShard of Alexander

Shard of the late Alexander, a shattered warrior jar. Greatly boosts the attack power of skills. Scraps of stewed flesh cling to the shard, and tatters of ornaments can be seen mingled within the slime. Relics of a red-haired champion, it would seem.