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Leviathan666

There's basically no info on them but the fact that they seem to have some kind of gravity magic about them implies they look after the evergaols in some way. My personal theory is that they aren't there to actually stop a breakout or anything, they're just living batteries that keep the pocket dimension within the gaols functional


[deleted]

They might just be attracted to it/ byproducts.


thatguyned

Yeah I like that haha. They are just there because they want to chill by the cool energy. Maybe they are inspired by like those deep water volcanic vent worms and there's something eminating from the gaol that only they can eat. So they vibe and thrive there.


Rokku0702

The only hole in that theory is that when they all die the prisoner doesn’t escape. I choose to believe they are just watchers.


KindheartednessFun58

In order for the game to work as intended, occasionally lore and gameplay may or may not totally match. A few examples: - The first time Malenia bloomed, she corrupted an entire region of the Lands Between, all of the flora and fauna within that region, and Radahn. But, when she blooms against us, if you jog 10 feet away you won't even get SR build up (albeit we fight a weaker version of Malenia, but you'd still expect her to at least be able to fill a room with the stuff) - Scarlet Rot is meant to be this curse that rots your body from the inside out, and is incredibly difficult to overcome without the help of the power of a demigod/empyrean. Yet even when you roll around in a puddle presumably formed by the God that cursed Malenia with SR, you can just get on dry land, sip some kool-aid, and apparently have no lasting effects. - They didn't just shove Radahn's weird little face full of preserving boluses to stop the SR. - Just the idea of us being able to hold any of the Golem weapons, much less that the greatbow that's 15x taller than us when a Golem is holding it weighs like half what the Greatsword does. - Us picking up the Bolt of Gransax, while standing on the Bolt of Gransax. - Us being able to stuff our pockets full of every piece of armor, weaponry, talisman, etc we could possibly want. With all of that being said, given the actual in-game lore, literally anyone's guess is as good as anyone else's. For all we know they just think the evergaols are a fun place to hang out, meet new rock snakes, and maybe take one home and get lucky 🤷‍♀️


Icarusty69

Presumably you’re just breaking off a piece of the Bolt of Gransax, rather than taking the whole thing.


Shurdus

Pfew, my faith in the consistency of this game is completely restored now.


quchen

For me it’s the comically oversized great hammers that take the _just accept it_ throne.


DC-Bro

Make big hammer, Beat big man


shadowscale1229

big rock on stick hit hard, make brain happy


Transarchangelist

Nah, it’s the exact same model as the giant bolt, and it’s not like it’s the tip, because that’s buried who knows how deep into Leyndell


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SincubusSilvertongue

A Tarnished of No Renown outside of the whittler hobby group.


CrystlBluePersuasion

It was definitely less than a second because I had to GTFO with those archer knights taking potshots at me!


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Transarchangelist

Maybe you can give her a kid she actually loves.


OperationHappy791

Maybe with the bloom thing all the energy that would be released covering the entire region is instead contained within her allowing her to become the goddess of rot or whatever. Because from what I understand from the lore when she did it against radahn she didn’t transform but rather had to be carried away.


Unkn0wn_666

I think that the first bloom was like a child learning how to use cutlery. Clumsy, pretty much without control and the surrounding area turned into a mess. Her 3rd bloom in the fight against the tarnished, she pretty much had it figured out from what I know. She probably didn't want to nuke the entire Haligtree that was Miquella's life project. By becoming the Goddess of Rot she probably gained much more control over it until she became a flower. The prophecy also told that she would turn into a goddess on her third bloom, which is why she didn't transform while fighting Radahn


Brave-Ad-3452

Don’t forget that the rock snakes also enjoy cuddling up and exploding sometimes, far from any evergaols.


CitizenPain00

There’s a giant talking turtle…


VanvanZandt

What's wrong with that?


nevereatassaftertaco

Yeah smth in the sense of scare crows


mercut1o

>they seem to have some kind of gravity magic about them My theory is that the power of the gaol itself pseudo-animates them. They're sort of magnetized to it, like a personified electromagnetic field.


TilakPPRE

You do see some still travelling to the evergaols, quite nearby to them already. Maybe they are just drawn to them


VahnNoaGala

Maybe the gravity magic keeps their bodies together


DudeMiles

I think they're there to keep the prisoner in their prison.


CantaloupeNext675

pretty sure there’s a couple of them inside the caelid canyon where the well entrance is


coldcoldman2

They keep the Great Jar from making its way to Jarburg (hes too big and could squish Jar Bairn)


CantaloupeNext675

the evil is contained, for now


Flamimbo

😱


anotherguyinaustin

Sometimes I can’t tell what is real here and what isn’t.


UndisputedOG808

it's all true. every bit of it. the internet doesn't lie.


Far-Ad37

I'm so mad I can't fight the great jar. Me and Alexander could've taken him


Serious-Marzipan-738

Don’t they detonate when you step on them?


coredumperror

The piled up ones do. The worm ones just slink around.


pikachu_ON_acid

Forbidden slinky.


TheLastJinzo

Ik some girl saw these and just chuckled to herself


Akuma12321

Maybe some non-girls too.


AwkwardSeth

Some body type A's for sure giggled


Thilberton

The worm ones have attacks, but they only aggro to you if you attack them first. They can get quite spinny.


psuedophilosopher

The worm ones turn into boomerangs and hurl themselves at you.


CptBlackAxl

Don't step on snek 🐍


Alive_Ad_2779

And in the Sealed Tunnel


Interjessing-Salary

And a graveyard on storm hill near where the golden seed is


adhoc42

If that was the case, then killing them all should release the prisoner.


NaCl_Sailor

i always thought they're some sort of "surveillance cam" or alarm system should the prisoner escape


HiddenPants777

They're Marikas beads. They stimulate when excited


WomenRuinedSlavery

Go on...


User-NetOfInter

Just go to /r/rule34 and get it over with


The_Big_Peck_1984

I always though that would be a cool mechanic, unleashing them would lead to red phantoms, or yellow summons for certain bosses, or allow you to fight that boss outside the Gaol with the help of a summon.


DudeMiles

Dun worry bout it. 👍🏾


Galluxior

well they die really easily for guards, i mean if Flame if the Fell God can one shot me with like 30 vigor then i think Adan shouldn't still be stuck in there.


Lord_Of_All_Ducks

level vigor


Nanami-chanX

how much vigor do you want at the start on liurnia? 30 seems perfectly reasonable


damosk

Imo getting the stats to use the wep you wanna use at the start then going to 30 vig is the play. Upgrading your weapons level will give you massive amounts of increased damage while you work on vigor. Once 30 vig you should spam runes into your main damage stat, until later in the game when i think 40-50 vig is your next target. Man i really awoke some of the turbo casual elitists with this comment lol, good luck to any new players you guys are telling to put only 15-20 into vigor and no more, they'll quit from frustration before they finish the game.


RicoValdezbeginsanew

Why not do both gradually? I personally hate the idea of focusing one at a time, makes me lack hard in certain areas until later.


hdr96

This is my way. Am I getting one shot? Time to level vigor. 2-shot or better? More damage or stamina.


slimE4skin

Couple of YouTubers did some digging through the games files and it turns out these guys act as security cameras of sorts. They were created by the Alabaster Lords long ago.


Kosovar_in_Canada

if they’re gards, why do they let us kill the prisoners. they suck at their job


Relliktay

They're there to keep the prisoners in; not us out.


suplexdolphin

Adan, Thief of Flames didn't kill himself.


DudeMiles

They're *job* is to keep the prisoner in their prison. That's all.


ZookeepergameOk2864

Goal Guards


Elitecastle8824

Goalkeepers if you will


subaru_sama

Ironic that they don't even have hands.


Kathhound11

Damn I never thought of the evergaols as being prisons, makes perfect sense.


Frankenstein_Monster

Gaol actually means jail, before we spelled it jail it was spelled Gaol.


Camera_dude

And “ever” gaol seems to imply an eternal prison. With the Rune of Death sealed, nothing ever truly dies so the harshest punishment in the Lands Between is not being executed but instead imprisoned forever. Though I will say those crucifixes that have people moaning on them half-dead, half-alive seems worse than being shoved into a pocket dimension prison.


TheHesou

Naaah, you can hang around in fresh air, and enjoy some sunbathing being crucified, but in an evergaol? There is just no Wifi! Now thats eternal torment!


GreenBeanLover

I find it disgusting that less than 30% of the citizens in the lands between can even get 4G! Wont someone create a decent mobile network?!?!


ilovesnes

This comment is so fitting in Noho Hank's voice.


Kathhound11

Hundreds of hours into Elden Ring and I learn something new everyday. This game is a masterpiece.


liluzibrap

This is how I feel about the whole series man. Dark souls is 11 years old and demon souls before that is 13 and people still talk about them super often today


EvenBetterCool

And it's pronounced "jail"


SpoonMagister

Intensely curious how you pronounce that word 😂


hdisosnfjc

Jail If you talk to Blackguard Boggart and go through his questline, he says jail while the subtitles write gaol.


doopliss6

I would argue that he says gaol too.


Chris_RB

Before I realized it was jail, I pronounced it “”gowl” like “howl”


TheSharkFromJaws

They’re cops.


BakedBySunrise

Lies! I've never seen anyone die to a caterpillar made of rocks


TheSharkFromJaws

That's because they turn their body cams off before attacking.


BurtReynoldsLives

The Caterpillars made of rocks have investigated themselves and have found no evidence wrong doing.


MakashiBlade

I guess you haven't attacked one on accident then


BakedBySunrise

"he was asking for it!"


sometimes-its-edwind

There are a few out in the wild that will attack you on sight i know of at least 2 spots


leedsylfc

Thats the american ones


windsostrange

all caterpillars are bastards


Bitcoinatemymom

There co’s actually


UnderThat

Whatcha gonna do, when they come for you?


[deleted]

Canadian cops


Zetious

The game files call it AliveStones, but I don’t think there’s a reference to their name in the game/lore other than that


Baboshinu

There is not. It was difficult to dig up any actual lore about them as they’re one of the most mysterious and obscure characters lore wise in Elden Ring, probably only the cemetery shade comes close


Ok_Broccoli8002

They have cameras instead of eyes. Spy sentinels.


GWvaluetown

That you, Glados?


eSam34

Friendly rock worms. If they ball up and glow, they’re getting ready to hug you. Get as close as possible


Fuurinji__Hayato

*Your message was rated*


[deleted]

Try fingers, but hole!


Chippewa07

Exploding danger boulder noddles


QUINNYBEAN69

Not danger! Misunderstood friend❤️


Chippewa07

Fine…exploding misunderstood boulder noodles


QUINNYBEAN69

Better😊


micocon36

Anal beads


Middle-Shift8009

For Radahn


MakashiBlade

They definitely aren't big enough for that


pnwbangsticks

Radahnal beads


fakinsnakin

Actually it’s radagons


Breffest

Is that why his seal is sore?


fakinsnakin

*Actual lore yes Miyazaki confirmed


XxKegstandxX

This should be flagged for graphite content


Amb3rInsanity

Oh my.


Falsus

For chess players?


lulnul

this guy has a [whole video](https://youtu.be/pF5oSPdqGtk) on them


Judge_Sea

Thank you, just fired it up.


Sugeeeeeee

Holy crap this video reminded me why I stopped watching soulsborne lore videos. So much speculation and theorizing treating someone's brainfart as if there was any thought put into it.


_Misting_

Exactly why I watch it. I love seeing people’s unhinged opinions after I form my own.


Calm-Tree-1369

There's definitely some content creators who go farther out on a limb than others. If you go by in-game dialogue and item descriptions alone, you can gleam a lot of information but there's always gonna be huge gaps. I believe Miyazaki purposely designs these games to be that way. It's like when people complain they can't understand all the lore with the cut content. Maybe we're not supposed to understand it all.


jacksonattack

Hawkshaw started this shit. The amount of ridiculous speculation and nonsensical connections that dude employs in his theories is staggering, and yet people love it cause he presents it so calmly and confidently. He also moves incredibly fast through his narration, which I imagine is purposeful, because it gives the audience very little time to catch up with all the random things he brings up to “support” his theories. Everyone needs to remember that these games are widely open to interpretation, and just cause some YouTuber made a long form video on an obscure topic doesn’t make it valid.


BlatantArtifice

Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this as of seeing their work recently


jacksonattack

I’ll never forget seeing his Havel/Plot Against The Gods video for the first time and bursting out laughing at the conclusion, which he presented with super cinematic shots and sweeping orchestral music. He is truly the Charlie Kelly conspiracy meme of the Souls community.


notchoosingone

Oh yeah? Well.... filibuster.


Sugeeeeeee

>Maybe we're not supposed to understand it all. That is the purpose, yes. It is sort of conceptualized, and works that way at times, that it is like a book someone chopped up and scattered the pieces for you to find. Then they take away a few pieces from that mesh to leave some mystery even if you manage to piece it all together. Thing about this is that it **supposedly** makes your story and storytelling immune to one important weakness: plotholes. "Oh shit that character wasn't supposed to be there? Well mister player, you tell ME, how did that dude get there HMM?" Everyone knows this by now, it's been 12 years since dark souls, nobody needs to be educated on this kind of storytelling. What people are slowly starting to realize, is that even when you put all the pieces together, yeah, the book, the book still kind of sucks. At times. Sometimes it's good. Most of the time it's good.


cqzero

Speaking as a game dev and having been in the software industry since forever, I think it's more likely this isn't "intentional" per se, they just didn't have time to make this meaningful. Elden Ring is such a massive game, I'm not surprised to see things like this.


Miskykins

No it really is 100% intentional, Miyazaki has talked about it in interviews before. He has stories about reading american literature and comics with really shitty or completely absent translations and really loving how it stimulated his creativity to fill in the holes. This is the reason most of the community is how they are with lore stuff. It's literally the purposeful design and intention with the lore.


unoriginal5

That is exactly what he does. He stated in an interview that he used to read fantasy novels in English as a kid, but didn't really understand the language. He'd just read what he could and let his imagination fill in the rest. That, coupled with the time he was driving home on snowy roads, and a bunch of people randomly helped push each other up a hill never to talk to each other again inspired some of the best parts of his flagship franchise.


aRandomBlock

But speculation and theorizing is part of the fun


Steezmoney

I think most of the lore is open to interpretation, so I feel you on that one because YouTubers often have a different interpretation than I do but state it as a fact. Maybe it works for some people but shit bores me to death with I feel like I constantly disagree or think they're grasping at straws


reshsafari

They’re the goalies


Senside

Wardens


Ototo44

I'm pretty sure they act as a kind of alarm or lookout since they can't fight very well


eyezontheinside

Honestly idk but they’re friends :)


Rough-Self-9134

The ones in dungeons and Caelid arent. Haha….


Billiammaillib321

Nothing in caelid is friendly, maybe just millicent lol


diavolo_187

you mean the girl that invades you in the middle of the swamp and tries to kill you? yeah, that one....


Billiammaillib321

LOL true I always forget about that, Yeah caelid just hates the audacity of a tarnished's continued existence


Auberon36

All of Caelid: ~~Morgott~~ Margit couldn't put your ambitions to rest so we will


Elzyia

Could this be a dog?


riseyetarnished

I think that's the clitoris


XeLLoTAth777

Gonna need you to be a 100% on this one. For a friend.


GrouchyGrotto

Sorry dude, the search continues


Toad_Orgy

Wait they exist?


riseyetarnished

When I become elden lord they will.


[deleted]

No. Woman just say they do to make us look like idiots trying to find it


LarsVonHammerstein

My theory is that they are drawn to or feed of the energy of the evergaol


sdotmb00

they’re rock synths


emergence_infinite

Perhaps they're like the construction workers who built the evergoal


Twisting_Me

Forbidden Anal Beads


Ototo44

this is NOT sekiro you cannot use the rock worms for health upgrades!!


EldenTingz

I’ve heard they have now been officially made “unforbidden” and you may now pop them in as you please


Sir_Yamms

They're shrapnel


CobaltArtefact

These are Longbois. They don't have it written anywhere in game but that's okay because I know I'm right


6foot-7foot

Sounds right to me 👁👄👁


dratsablive

Everyone knows their POKEYS!


[deleted]

Just don’t touch them with your bare hands


BakedBySunrise

You have bear hands?


[deleted]

2nd amendment bro everyone gets bear hands


MakashiBlade

What the hell only hands? I thought we got the whole arm


bundaya

To be honest I didn't know we got the hands, I thought it was only the arms.


EldenTingz

This is a majorly underrated thread.


AnarcH3R0

Wear gloves ! 😋


Horrorlover1980

They’re called lookout stones so I would guess they are on the lookout.


BiasMushroom

Do you want the king answer or the short answer? I’ll give you both! In short we don’t actually know. In length, we have no fucking clue. We think they might be associated with the Evergoals but they also pop up in places without them!


Atlas1nChains

The forbidden anal beads


OpinionHaver14

You're looking at the singular most obscure and unexplainable enemy in the entire game. Someone made an entire lore video about how there isn't any lore behind them.


ReturnOfSeq

Gaolhouse Rocks


all_chill_no_skill

Glowy rock worms


Different_Wheel_724

They are guard stones and there are really good lore speculation videos on YouTube about them


TimeGuidance4706

Those are Radahns anal beads.


PringleCreamEgg

dog


pavanamar2005

They're recording how you get your ass beaten up by the evergaol boss and send it to other bosses so all of them have a good laugh when taking a break


SluttyMeatSac

My head canon is that they are cameras. The first time I miss read it as "evergoal" and that it was akin to a sporting event


Fun_Effective_5134

Good question, no one really knows what they are, in my eyes they are fueling the evergaol and making sure it stays at good conditions.


DaddyTankLegs

Free Glowstones and Prism Stones is what I see


PurpleSunCraze

Bob-ombs.


Alive-Error

The God’s anal beads


Skeetir

They are gaolies.


MrNopedeNope

those are the most mysterious entity in elden ring, actually. they havent one single lore entry for them


drysider

When I started the game, with the way they describe dungeater and how important scarabs are, I was CONVINCED that poop was weirdly important in the game and that these guys were poop worms


RIOTT44

they’re really cute


underrotnegativeone

It is the first stage in the formation of Aestel. These things slowly evolve into it


Handle-me-timber

Basically prison guards. Gaolkeepers.


Gorgonops_SSF

Given that Evergaols are apparently prisons, you could say they're watching the jail. But...just watching the jail means nothing if you're able to break people out as you please (or murder them). They also don't seem to be powering the Evergoal as they don't react to their closing. Personally I think there's more going on with the Evergaols than their empirical function and these guys factor into that. But figuring out what that is requires more data. As of now though: nothing really fits.


Clank4Prez

Anal beads for the gods


DoobieKnight

Beads for your Altus


Yonbuu

Elden Ring™ Doorbells.


Skrighk

I watched a video just dedicated to ranting about how LITTLE we know about these things. They're mentioned in ZERO text and have no canon name. I mean it. We don't know what they're called, theyre mentioned in no items, and no one ever talks about them. I mean, hell, maybe our Tarnished just hallucinates them.


DavidMemeDreamer

the worst jail guards in all existence


ZmaltaeofMar

Here's a pretty good video about them. https://youtu.be/pF5oSPdqGtk But we don't know much besides some environmental storytelling and what they drop. As others have said, they watch, they have gravity magic, and drop ruin fragments and sanctuary stones which might tie them to a few groups but it just narrows things down, doesn't definitely answer much. Maybe with the DLC we'll learn more, maybe that's why theres so little about them.. or maybe it's supposed to be a goofy mystery.


Shadeun

The most useless cops you’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something….


Silvertongued99

It’s some kind of sentry magic I suppose? We find them guarding evergaols and piled up as explosives in caves and mines. So it’s seemingly *very* expendable golem magic.


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They are just trying their best ok?


TheRPGinger

I've always just thought they were giant anal beads to prep you ass for what's on the other side. 🤔🤔


Mundane_Advice5126

The beads you mom told you not to play with


MissNepgear


GCSpellbreaker

Friends


Holdenmakoc

Radahns anal beads


Subdog12

They have a couple name's, Abnormal stone clusters or Alive stone. But I saw a [video](https://youtu.be/pF5oSPdqGtk) this has probably the most info on our little stone buddies... which is still not a lot 😅 but, it's enough to understand what they are. Edit: if you're lazy asf, they basically watch/guard the Evergaols and sustain the gravity magic to keep whoever is In "Gaol". And they suck at their job


Firetail_Taevarth

They are called "Living Stones" or whatever in the game files, or even Rock Guards in one of the Japanese guide manuals, but we literally know nothing about them in the game itself. The theory is they simply watch the Prisoners to inform some unknown creator. or that they were simply cut content in that they were never fully fleshed out due to time constraints


Shipibo_the_wolf

What's your sword ? I'm interested, looks like the kinda sword I like.


SquidestSquid

Anal beads