Elden Ring's Most Mysterious Enemy (and Its Lore)

Maybe they are not trying to keep you out, maybe they are keeping whatever is in the evergoal IN!

I have a feeling the lore behind them was cut from the game

Great for farming rurnes at low level

These are enemies? I always just let them be. They never bothered me and I don’t bother them

Fextralife is constantly smoking something, serving up blatantly false or bizarrely contrived names, facts and figures on all their wikis, literally a decade after some of these games have come out. What's an "Abnormal Stone Cluster", Fextralife??

i have never ran into the shadow enemies
where tf they at

It’s like these things were supposed to be removed from the game but they forgot

I thought those golems to been built by Old Giants, seeing the fire inside, but the link between those and Lookout Stones, Evergaol and elevators to Onix Lords seems a good guess.

This video came out a year ago, but my two cents?
Everything associated with the ruins that fell from the sky seem to have association with gravity magic, see also the Ruins Greatsword and its weapon skill, Wave of Destruction. If we assume the ruins came from Farum Azula, it's not actually as much of a stretch as you'd think to associate the sky mausoleum with gravity magic, and as a result, the Onyx Lords. Perhaps the Onyx Lords and the Ancient Dragons were friends, or were born from similar places? Perhaps skin of stone is a common trait among those that came from before the Erdtree.

Their eyes look like Wheatley from Portal 2

One thing about the golem connection, crystal darts also have the same frenzy effect on stone imps and burial watchdogs, and the dart's item description mentions how a "golem crafter used a similar tool." Because some of the watchdogs use glintstone staffs, its likely that the golem maker was either Carian or a student of Raya Lucaria/Sellia.

Maybe its possible that the golem maker learnt gravity magic in Sellia to create the evergaols and lookout stones? I don't think the alabaster lords created them, as you can find one trapped in an evergaol behind Caria manor, even though they would most likely have a way to escape if they were the inventors.

You say 'enemy', but in my experience they are mostly harmless and benign. And they do become more passive after the inmates. They do attack at certain evergaols. Don't remember which one, but it required a stonesword key to get into. They attacked before going in, and after completing it stopped attacking.
We also don't know what happens when an inmate breaks out either. Maybe the light they produce from their eyes is what's keeping the evergaol active? Maybe if someone broke out they'd go Super Saiyan, and shove the prisoner back in.

i found an alabaster lord in the lake of rot if that has any impact on lore im sure someone will find out

speaking about being hesitant on farum azula being powered by gravity magic because of the absence of color purple, I'd like to make a comment that the Ruins Greatsword is canonically a chunk that fell from that place, and somehow that chunk was found to be imbued with gravity magic as seen in it's ash of war, so to me, it's kind of a big proof farum azula floats thanks to gravity magic infused in it's stones and that it simply doesn't emit visible purple light for some reason

The runes on the evergaol look like Greek letters to me but I couldn't find anything that matched what they spelled.

Lingua latina!!! in elden ring

They crawl around the outside of the gaol sometimes, and sometimes they stand tall and watch it. It might be a patrol route? or something else like foraging for sustenance.

theyre so cute and adorable i wonder if they could be domesticated

I think that the lords came from the rock that hit farum azula and that might have been the humanoid beings we see in the walls at farum and might be of the draconian ancestors

I thought they were somehow connected to the fallen star beasts? They reminded me of their tails and the evergaols reminded me of their craters

There is also altus tunnel leading to the west altus divine tower which has the exploding stones with an alabaster lord as the boss

I think it was wasted potential not talking about who’s actually stuck in the evergaols; if we can deduce the beings jailed the longest, or a pattern between who gets jailed, that could give lots of hints towards the watchstones!

I always called these things gravity, when i got to caelid in the early game once and got almost one shot by one of them i said to a friend that im being killed by gravity

Youre gonna fight the boss form of it in the DLC. Maybe the 2nd one. Im calling it.

Pretty sure their name is just "anal beads" but alright

I always liked the name "staturpillar" as in a statue caterpillar, or simply "stone caterpillar." I like the name, though it sounds like a Rock-Bug type pokemon.

I call them mama Luigi’s

I always thought they maintained the gaols by influencing the fates of the people in the gaol using their gravity magic. The breakouts they're monitoring for aren't the kind we're capable of staging.

but in japanese, is there an "old english word" for jail as well?

I will point out with regards to the lost civilisations that the Clay Men, who you get the bubble sorceries off, are stone-like in apearance, live in areas only accessible by the floating blue elevators and are an ancient society from before the erdtree. All their weapons reference an ancient dynasty and their Spears are made form metiorite shards. It seems that they are a sort of parralell group to the Alabaster lords but they use blue magic like the lifts and golems

the runes on the gaol look somewhat like the ones in summoning signs, maybe

See, I never knew this enemy was never named because I assumed it's entire backstory was written on some insignificant item in the corner of nowhere that I hadn't picked up, like 90% of the other story beats.

Cringe

Obviously their name is eye balls

The draconic soldier in that river well looks VERY similar to the golems. So maybe golems are recreations of draconic soldiers to replace them when they went extinct.

When radahn's stars fall, they cause floating rocks above the pit that leads you to nokron. Maybe gravity magic only shows the purpe effect when something is actively being moved, and when there is no color that means that the object is dormant (like the floating city or the rocks above the nokron pit)

Idk I just call them chill worm boys and hangout with them every now and again

The list of names didn't include "Pickle". You are clearly maidenless.

You're missing the fact that they look like Onix from pokemon. Another fact that inextricably links them to the Onyx Lords. 😎

Bro…. Rock worms

Omg milking of soulsborne game lore never stops to amaze 😂

i know it’s name, it’s the stone balls that explode

They are also in one of the cailid mines

The Runes you mentioned are also found on monoliths around the game. The same monoliths where you get your maps for each area.

I call them ass beads.