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

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My theory is that they're maintaining the evergaol at an ethereal level, as inn they are constantly replenishing the jail by absorbing cosmic/gravity energy from the eather or absorbing it from the stars like solar panels and feeding it to gaol to keep it's pocket dimension going.

Might not actually be meant to be defenders. Them being "Lookouts" might just mean they are bascially security cameras. Meant to alert someone who probably isn't even around anymore if one of the inmates somehow got out. Like a silent alarm system that doesn't actually reach anyone.

I bet that during early testing devs noticed that evergoals were easy to miss, because they don't stick out from afar, so they added these things as an indication that there's a point of interest nearby.

I like the theory that they're basically security cameras, and the guy who's supposed to be watching them to raise the alarm is just not there anymore, it's a nice and straightforward theory that makes sense

I'm sad that these creatures werent called Caterpillars. They certainly do look like pillars. Personally it's a relatable creature. Mechanically doing a 9 to 5, on the lookout for the Boss, Has a goofy but explosive self defense mechanism, Falls apart when punched. Truly relatable.

There are also some of the clustered 'guard' variant in the Sealed Tunnel in Altus Plateau, a dungeon which happens to end in a boss fight with an Onyx Lord!

It doesn't give much hint to the origins but I just love that Miquella mastered a bit of every type of magic to the point that he stuck a whole copy of a town in an evergaol.

i love that now that we’ve had Elden Ring for awhile now we get to see all these cool videos about the obscure characters, loved the video !

Imagine the blacknife assassin escaping her evergoal, and these things spinning around and pummeling her back into the evergoal. They're like living billy clubs made of sanctuary stones.

When I first found an evergaol, I thought the fight would change if I found and killed all the stone worms that paired with it. I guessed that they were the projectors manifesting the "VR" gaols into existence, and eliminating then would free or otherwise effect w/e was inside.

these guys are also found in the altus plateau, specifically in the tunnel leading to the west altus divine tower, whose boss is an onyx lord

14:40 interesting note about gravity magic holding up faram azula. After defeating Radahn, the entrance to nokron opens up, and above the hole is a bunch of floating rocks. Those floating rocks have no purple. Looking at them side by side, its VERY similar.

It's also worth noting that the eye on this enemy is pretty visually similar to the eye in the skulls of Astel and the Fallingstar Beasts. The description of the Ruins Greatsword is probably also topical here, as it mentions a meteor striking Farum Azula and infusing the rubble with gravity magic.

They glow with gravity magic, drop the same ruin stones found in pieces from farum azula, and seem to be drawn to the evergaols if they are not directly connected to them? Evergaols do seem to work on some form of spatial magic and have very similar stonework to the dragon ruins, so they could easily be directly connected. So my question is were they built there along with the evergaols or are they extraterrestrial/dimensional in nature and simply drawn to the evergaols energy? They also seem to be made of space rock like the alabaster lords, but they seem man made and can fold into a tiny pyramid that looks like a canonball pile. Can't wait for this to go live, I must know more about the squiggly rock bois.

A quick observation, when you come out of Siofra in Caelid the path littered with these enemies leads to the Arsenal Charm, a talisman which effects how gravity exerts it's influence on the player, or reduces weight, either way this is a gravity magic effect.

I always thought they were related to the fallingstar beast lineage, because of their eyes, and association with gravity magic.

They also appear around the colosseum in Limgrave, as well as mixes of the proximity mine and regular variants around several of the graveyards of stone coffins that are filled with Golden Rune items!

I spent a couple weeks back in March trying to decipher the runic scripts found throughout the game. Those look most similar to the ones found on the St. Trina torch and graves found throughout the game (best example o can think of is the grave pile by the red dog and albanuric rise puzzle in the mountaintop of giants). From my research, all the runic scripts in the game seem to be based off two base scripts found in the real world: some variant of Futhark and the Carian runic alphabet. The interesting thing about Carian (aside from the obvious lol) is that it has multiple regional variations. My current working theory is that they made their own version for the game, but that’s just conjecture. One thing that gave me a lot of trouble was that it seems they took the time to uniquely stylize each instance of runic script to match the material it was carved or etched into. Script on stone is rounded and less defined (also sometimes appearing heavily weathered) while script on metal (eg St Trinas sword) appears to have flourishes. My best guess is that it’s all either the same runic script stylized and adjusted based on the in game time period the item came from or it’s two separate runic scripts (the variants of Futhark and Carian). It’s also been a few months since I let myself think about this out of fear of falling back down this rabbit hole, but I’m pretty sure I still have my notes somewhere. I spent quite a bit of time wandering around looking at walls and weapon textures while doing my research. If want to chat about it some time let me know and I’ll see if I can dig them up. Hope this helps! (PS. Has anyone made a connection with the giant stone man being a creator deity yet? His depiction across the game, especially in the Haligtree city, really peaked my interest. Especially the fact that it seems to be him modeled on the tombs outside Malenia and those appear to be identical to the headless ones in the walking mausoleums. I had to stop digging back in April because it was taking up too much of my time lol. If anyone has a video or post talking about it I’d love to know!)

Important note about Farum Azula's "anti-gravity": Dragonlord Placidusax (among other dragons) rest there and in his boss fight cutscene it seems more like Farum Azula is held together in some kind of timeless stasis, which he controls (and reverts in the cutscene). That might also explains while some rocks travels around the tornado, they never spin around their own axis, same with all the ruins/buildings/platforms, they stay in perfect stasis.

Would have been amazing to have a giant one as a meme boss. Maybe at Vista points just looking out at the landscape for trouble .

You guessed that the lookouts might be broken or malfunctioning based on the fact that they don't appear to respond to meddling with the evergaol, but consider that a 'lookout' typically isn't expected to personally take action against what they're looking out for. Rather, they are supposed to raise an alarm so that others can respond. Maybe whatever alarm or security system was in place that they were meant to activate isn't working anymore. they're sending a signal just fine, but nobody's listening. this would also potentially explain the lack of response to the crystal darts, unlike the other construct enemies, they weren't built for combat, so scrambling their targeting doesn't really affect them since they were only ever supposed to respond when attacked. As for why the security measures are missing for every single evergaol, one possible explanation is that they were destroyed or dismantled by later civilizations. In particular, the erdtree forces seem to have been able to 'reprogram' them, hence the presence of giant golems guarding various places important to them. the burial watchdogs are possibly the result of reverse-engineering, since the name implies that the erdtree forces made them.

Maybe each evergaol had a guardstone minefield with lookoutstones as triggers, but all the explosive guardstones were already exploded?

Has anyone compared thier resistance to gravity magic to the other elements? Usually the higher resistance can atleast give you a hint of to what they have an affinity to

There is an Alabaster Lord in Raya Lucaria, found just past the first evidence of a rudimentary elevator system (the giant cog wheels). This suggests that they may have been brought in to the Academy to perfect the system by sharing their gravity magic. And as for the runes found on the ever gaol, I will scour the Academy for any similar writing to see if this has weight.

Couple things. 1, we find some of the guard stones in the sealed tunnel, leading up to the Onyx Lord fight at the very end of the tunnel. Secondly, in regards to the golems and the sanctuary/ruin stones coming from a sky temple, they are very likely from the same temple that we find ruins of scattered about the lands between. This temple is not Faram Azula; items like the Ruins Greatsword make mention of a flying city that was destroyed by meteor strikes; the meteoric blade, imbued with gravity magic, was forged specifically to fight the creatures born from these meteors. I believe that there were likely multiple sky cities at one point, and that their inhabitants were the ones that created the various golems we find throughout the lands between, which have long since been repurposed by more modern civilizations. It's possible that the old sky cities and the culture that built them were connected with the people that built the ruins we find along the shorelines of Limgrave and Caelid; and that these may also be connected with the Onyx lords. There is a cave in Limgrave which features many of the same architectural cues that we find in the coastal ruins, and at the heart of this cave we find a giant golem, forging a (tenuous) link between them. Given that the remains of golems are often found alongside the ruins of the sky city, ad if they collapsed to earth at the same time, we now have some connection between golems, coastal ruins, and sky cities. The Onyx lord connection is much more tenuous, mostly just owing to the fact we randomly find one on the beach in Limgrave near the coastal ruins; what it is doing there, and why, is a mystery. Another semi-related mystery is the Golem in Caelid near the painting ghost for that area. It is not only significantly more resilient than any other golem we encounter, but has technological capabilites beyond most of what we find in the lands between, shooting lasers and imbuing its weapon with the wgat appears to be the same energy that powers its laser orbs. We do see the golems guarding the path to the coliseum imbuing their bows with a similar power, as they too glow blue. I speculate that this blue energy is somehow tied to the cosmos/the primeval current, as glintstone magics are of a similar hue. It's likely that whoever built the golems had advanced knowledge of the stars and the cosmos, and used this knowledge/power extensively. If my wild speculation is correct, it makes their demise by meteor strikes ironic, and given that we know meteors are not always simple space rocks, but are vessels for cosmic horrors like the Astels and the fallingstar beasts, it is even possible that these creatures were sent to the lands between intentionally by an outer God or similar such cosmic entity/scoiety/group. If this is the case, it makes a bit more of a case for the Onyx lords being behind the flying cities and the golems, for it is very likely them that forged the meteoric blade, as it is imbued with gravity magic, and I cannot think of another single gravity-infused weapon aside from the Ruins Greatsword that does not have an explicit direct connection to the Onyx lords (radahn was taught by the alabaster lords, explaining his gravity weaponry; the rest are the actual weapons used by the onyx/alabaster lords). Of course, mastery over gravity is clearly a teachable ability, as radahn learned it and then taught it to his knights, so its definitely possible that the meteoric blade was forged by a resident of Caelid, in preparation for Radahn's war against the stars, a conflict that we frankly get far too little info about given how insanely badass it sounds. Anyways, that's my train of thought tangent over, if anyone has thoughts/critiques I'd love to hear them

I do want to point out that I’ve found many that arent around evergaols, they just dont do the stare thing. Usually around some graveyards but theres also some randomly scattered in a few forests and even a cave I think

There's also a cave on the outskirts of Leyndell, which has an Onyx Lord in a fancy boss room, and these little stone creatures are used as self-destructing traps in that dungeon.

The big stone guys that have the bows were definitely made by people from Farum Azula, you can see in different places that the big stone guys fell from the sky along with some architecture from Farum Azula

I don't know if it's a big deal, but there are 11 of these creatures on the road in Caelid, and they're all made of 11 stones, and LB has a total of 11 evergaols.I wonder if the Stone Clusters in that area control the evergaols in LB.

10:11 the Evergaol gateways have markings similar to those found on the marais exececutioner greatsword. The Evergaol gateways seem to be related to gravity magic, and the eochlaid markings on the executioner greatsword cause the sword to float, much like the siofra river elevators. Might be worth looking into, but is probably all coincidence. 12:44 there's also "guardstones" at one of those little coffin areas with all the free rune items. Can't remember exactly where, but i think its Weeping Peninsula or Liurnia of the Lakes 14:30 Farum Azula is definately not powered by gravity magic. This distiction is made clear by the Ruins Greatsword description, which states that the gravity magic found in the greatsword is only present because a meteor struck Farum Azula while it was already floating in the air. Therefore, that means Farum is otherwise unassociated with gravity magic. Great video as always, though

What’s most interesting is that the tip of these things have an almost uncanny appearance to something in the game called “The Beast Eye”, which is given to us by Gurranq, aka Maliketh. It’s hard to make a connection but the color purple in the game is heavily associated with Sleep. I’ve always theorized that the Ever-goals are “dream jails” and the purpose of these things are meant to ward off intruders who wish to meddle with whatever prisoner that Ever-goal holds. Another connection is the “Gloam-eye” that Melina reveals in the flame of frenzy ending. It may just be a cinematic trick, but it’s interesting that the screen fades to black right after she reveals the eye, possibly hinting sleep. I believe she does this to us many times in the game also. Most notably the Fire Giant Cauldron cutscene, and maybe before she teleports us to the Roundtable Hold.

I always assumed they were a magic created entity that's really just used like a camera. Basically whoever was in charge of the evergaols or other important areas would be able to scry and see through their eye.

I've been fascinated by the lookout stones since the beginning. They always seemed... alien to the Lands Between. And we have so little information on them. And by focusing on their strangeness, and with an unhealthy dose of confirmation bias, I've cooked up a hypothesis. There's a space city. Or at least quite high in the sky. And this city houses a civilization that built the lookout stones, the everjails, but also the golems and the lifts inside the divine towers or leading to the underground. First of all, I think that Farum Azula is not connected to this civilization. Yes, Farum Azula floats in the sky, but thanks to something else since, As MadLuigi put it, there's a noticeable lack of purple glow, there. However, I do believe that the fallen ruins we see here and there come from this space city. Their architecture isn't quite like Farum Azula's. Now, why do I think that there's a space city? The spot at the intersection of the divine towers. Some say it's the crater left by the Elden Beast, but I find it way too large for that, and the Erdtree's position seem odd, at the edge of the crater. And talking about the crater, that's another clue to me. When we look at the map, we can see that the edges look a bit cut out. And I think this is what it is: cut out. The entire civilization, a civilization that mastered gravity, took out the entire kingdom and lifted it into the sky, maybe even to space. And from it, rained down the Alabaster lords and golems. It's my understanding that golems fell from a VERY high spot and crashed hard into the ground. For example, in Limgrave, you can see plenty of destroyed (and one severly damaged) golems under the big broken bridge. At first, I tought they were guardians of the bridge and fell when the bridge broke. But why did it brake? I think it didn't. I think golems fell from very high and some of them pulverized the bridge in their fall. So that's my take on it. We don't know much about the lookout stones, and even the golems, to be honest, because they come from a long gone civilization. Not gone in the sense that it died, but gone in the sense that they left the Lands Between. And I have another hypothesis. We don't know much about them, because there'll be plenty of that in the DLC. I've got a hinch that this kingdom will be the DLC's destination, and there we'll learn more about those constructs, and maybe possibly more about the Lands Between.

I always thought they were very mysterious, they don’t look like they belong in the game, or even Bloodborne. There’s something about them that feels off, even though there are other alien enemies.

I have always thought of Farum Azula as kind of a black hole of sorts, in that the tornado is the black hole and the city being a sort of event horizon (I think that's the proper term? Anyway the point in which even light gets trapped in the gravitational pull). It could also explain the weird time travelling that goes on in the area and possibly even its relation to the Alabaster Lords in terms of gravitational magic despite not having the purple colouring.

The fact that you pronounced Evergaol correctly is impressive on its own.

The Giant Stone Golems seem to have a fiery engine or core in their chest that functions like a power source. This reminds me of the Fire Giant as there is a similar fiery aura that comes from the Fire Giant during the fight.

I recently started another playthrough, and I could swear I was startled once by one of the guard stones exploding when I was looting one of the coffin fields (those stone coffins where every one has a Rune). I can't remember but I'm pretty sure there wasn't an evergaol near that place, and yet I could see both guard stones in pile form and lookout stones crawling on the floor.

One small note of interest is that along the ravine where the Lookout Stones and Stone Golems guard the Caelid Colosseum (we also find Lookout Stones and Golems near the Limgrave Colosseum), you can find a massive amount of gravel stones, perhaps the most that can be found in any single location in the game. However, I'm not certain if this indicates a connection between the Lookouts/Golems and the ancient dragons, or if it indicates that they were guarding *against* the dragons.

I also want to point out that you can also find them near crypts too occasionally. iirc there is a spot in limgrave where they have all 3 variants, explosive, moving, and lookout. Also every single time I've seen an explosive one was in an enclosed space where its possible to get damaged by them

My guess is that their job is to inform someone or something of a breakout, as for why they don't react to Blaidd, well he isn't the original prisoner. We and Blaidd kill the prisoner earlier in his questline. And i doubt Iji can reprogram them to inform him if Blaidd escapes. Edit: He said all of this, i need to learn not to comment before the end.

The text on the evergaol seals are similar to the coffin that transports the player to the Deeproot Depths location from the duo Gargoyle fight, though the effects are red when the coffin levitates.

I am quite certain that Blaidd was simply entering the evergaol same as you are, so the lookout stones at no point "let you free Blaidd" since he was never trapped. If you aren't familiar, he specifically asks that you help kill the person trapped in the evergaol.

Once I realized they have eyes, it reminded me of Godwyn’s eyes creeping up through roots and incorporating themselves into living creatures. Maybe this is a similar thing where ‘eyes’ of Astel (or of a long dead-star prime architect of the constructs) make their way up and through rocks and stone, and a weak form of gravity keeps trailing stones attached to it so they appear like segmented worms. I wondered for a while if they were pre-larval creatures but I could also see it as a kind of ‘eye infection’ similar to Godwyn’s but with stone instead of wood.

Great video, given the lack of detail on these curious little guys. To me, the strongest link to them in the game were the guard stones. Interestingly the exploding guard stone creatures can be uniquely found in the Sealed Tunnel leading to the Divine Tower of West Altus. The boss in this tunnel is the Onyx Lord, so I think you're very much on to something here. The Royal Grave Evergaol houses the Onyx Lord as well, so given the connections there might be more to that one in particular.

You're actually missing at least 2 other areas the lookout stones appear, albeit only in their clustered form, ready to explode when approached. There's at least 1 of the sarcophagi clusters-- the one I remember was in Stormhill-- that has several ready to surprise the player as you run or ride around to grab the runes, and there's a line-of-sight trap using them in one of the mining dungeons, though unfortunately I can't remember which and the wiki isn't being helpful. I'll try to remember to update this comment once I've found it again.

I appreciate your approach of not being biased by pet theories and staying true to what is present in the game. a bit of a pet peeve of mine when lore vids go on wild tangents and huge conjectures.

I hit one, backed off to see what it would do, it L'd itself and then fucking flew at me, was incredibly startled to see the wormy guy attempting to be a boomerang

The single eye reminds me a bit of the eye in the skulls of the falling star beasts and Astel (and Lusats hat) Also a connection to gravity magic and Alabaster and Onyx Lords

Something interesting about these things is that in Elden Ring Randomizers they are completely uneffected, they will always remain at the Evergaol sites. The only version of these things that get randomized is the pile that explode when you get close to them.

Ok I didn't know the golems were affected by crystal dart. That suggests several connections such as the imp bleed enemies. Awesome lore

I won't lie, I did feel that something was off with this enemy as if their AI was broken. I'm usually expecting 90% of the NPCs to be hostile, and I expected them to immediately swarm me upon walking up... but the first one I walked up to kept inch worming itself around. Idk, there's something about the way they don't attack me to be more unsettling than if they did.

I always thought that they held up an evergaold barrier wall

11:56 you also find them in the tunnel that lead to the West(?) Atlus Divine Tower, but them being here supports your point as the boss of this area or an Alabaster/Onix Lord

I've been waiting for someone to make a video on these guys. Their moveset is pretty wild, although you'd never expect it based on how quickly they go down.

Perhaps gravity magic isn't correct either. Perhaps its the same purple glow of St. Trina's sleep magic. As the Haligtree is also hidden behind a town that exists like an Evergaol, and perhaps the Evergaols are a dream state that they are placed in. Though I dont believe the stones are outside the Liturgical Town, nor could I explain why they drop ruin stones.

I like how willing you are to explore their AI just being broken. Doesn’t happen often enough.

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

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

I like to imagine Millicent and her sisters feuding simply because they began arguing over the stony fellas and what to call them.

when you start a coop session with an effigy, your character draws some runes into the air. they look similar to the ones on the evergaol seal.

The guard stones in their active mode is also found in the Altus sealed tunnel. Where there incidentally also is an Onyx lord at the bottom.

I was always a little peeved that out of everything it's these innocuous rockworms that don't seem mechanically possible just from the fact that the stones they're made of clip into each other during almost all their animations especially when they inchworm around

What if these stone creatures are used as a way to observe certian locations or points if interest by powerful sorcerers? They could be for spying, gathering information or security observation.

I remember my first time seeing one of them on Stormhill...accompanied with a message that read: "Be wary of dung."

Have you ever seen the toy consisting of little magnetic spheres? They link together in chains and sheets quite readily. I always thought these creatures resembled the toy. Also, magnetism in my opinion is called "gravity" by the game for some reason, magnetism makes more sense for some of the effects of gravity magic. Also radahn's swords have a pattern like a magnetic field. Maybe magnetism and gravity are not interchanged, but mixed together in Elden Ring.

We know from both the ruins greatsword and alabaster/onyx lord's swords that a meteor hit a giant city in the sky way back in the day. It's a pretty safe assumption that said meteor is the one that carried the falling star beasts and created the stone lord's races. The ruins greatsword is made out of the same ruins that we see scattered on the ground and it has the ability to manipulate gravity as well as the lords being said to be birthed by the event so it stands to reason that the little orby boys have the same thing going on and that's why they're (at least partially) made of ruin fragments. It's entirely possible that they're just drawn to the gaols because of the gravity magic being used. There's also a running theory in the GoT fandom stating dragons came from space because of some text describing a second moon rupturing and raining them down (along with a whole bunch of other GoT stuff I'm not nearly as involved in enough to understand.) GRR has like twelve ideas that he really knows how to work lol I can only assume the bally bois are either accidental life created on impact or were made with gravity magic to act as lookouts for the gaols. Radahn was trained by a stone lord so they clearly had contact with the ruling forces so it's totally possible the rolly bois were specifically crafted in conjunction with the gaols

I think of them as some sorta magic camera considering they tend to show up where people would want to keep an eye on, people might make or attune to them somehow to see through their eyes

I always took those things as simply being a golem variant. I've never found them dangerous except for the ones that explode, & those strike me as fantasy proximity mines.

At least the Gaols aren't as Hypogean this time!

Yes you can look up it's name on the wiki

There's one other exception. The solitary Guardian Stone (probably better translation) under the bridge in storm hill. Always been the most mysterious thing in the game to me.

I love how your talking about Elden Ring and using music from Stray in the background

Out of context, but the Wormfaces are labeled "Male" & "Female" in the game codes, the giant ones being Female.

Great video, I just want to point out as an Irish person that Siofra is pronounced "She-Fra" rather than "See-Oh-Fra"

The music from Stray worked really well here. Took me a while to figure out where I knew it from.

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

The blue glowing runes/scripts on the evergaol seals are the same you can find on every waygate (the teleport gates). Also the shape of the runes/scripts recall a lot the cosmic spiral of these portals. Aren't they from to the eternal cities? The Nox are the eldest race we meet in the game after all!

"Mihari Ishi" - translates to "Watching Rock or Look Out Rock" which seems fitting for their in game appearance and where they're located on the outside guarding the Everjail's

You are a smart guy… subbed and Liked! I think they are a nod from FROMSOFT to the Nintendo enemies in the Super Mario games (don’t know the name). I have a theory… lots of stuff doesn’t have to have a backstory. I think FROMSOFT puts stuff in their games that just look weird, cool, funny, goofy etc. I remember William Shatner talking about how the fans came up with fascinating stuff about Star Trek that was never considered but somehow made sense and connected threads that were never there. I think Souls games are like this. You Souls video makers are writing history and that’s a good thing!

Thanks for this

That “who’s that Pokémon??” cut just earned you a sub. Nice edit 😂

Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but another link between the alabaster and the Gaols is they might use the same kind of "portals". Like when you use the meteor spell, a portal opens up which the meteors shoot out from, but where do those rocks come from? Maybe gravity magic/alabaster magic has the ability to open portals to these kind of pocket dimensions where they can take things out or put things into, maybe also the same place the Alabaster come from when they appear from thin air in the game being able to freely travel between these dimensions.

"What are you watching?" "A video all about Exploring the mystery of these huge, rock hard, one-eyed worms" "Uuuh, do you really want to go on record with that explanation?" "Of course, I don't see how that could possibly be taken out of context.

Well done, I’ve been wondering about these little guys for a while. My thinking led me to believe they came from space perhaps. Either way I appreciate the video and I gave you a sub all the same.

They are also present in the Yellow annix tunnels (spell check?), where one of the gravity dudes resides. They are just balled up into proximity mines.

10:15 We have the same letters on the Stone Pillars, that we need to light up in Siofra River for the Ancestor Spirit

I think that 'Guard/Lookout Stone' is not the 'true name' given to them by their creator, but a... descriptive name given to them by the later inhabitants of The Lands Between, since they appear to be standing guard or keeping a lookout around the gaols. (This is probably true for a lot of things, like poor Wormface there.) I think the internal name "AliveStone" is actually probably more reflective of their 'true nature'.

The graveyard by Stormgate in Limgrave has a number of them primed to explode, as well, and there are a couple on the way from the Warmaster's Shack towards the partial colosseum in Limgrave by the bridge to its tower.

I remember the same thing. I beat a boss in an evergaol and when I came out the eye stone guys were all slinking away. But on subsequent playthroughs I don't see that. Dunno if a fresh save is needed or a patch did it, but I think the behavior you described is real, just broken.

They also spawn around some of the cemetery areas as well in limgrave and in the passage to the great iron jar in caelid

there are also some lookout stones hidden in one of the dungeons of the game, not sure which one exactly, but found some in a cave of sorts.

The light shape in the everjails kinda remind me of the portals you use to teleport, even the light inside looks more like it rather than gravity

there are are some large chunks of stone covered with similar runes along the side of the roads in the storm lands. maybe other places as well. I actually just noticed they had worn looking runes carved into them the other day.

There are some of the clusters guarding a random cemetery right before stormveil castle as well

Growing runes in the spiral pattern reminds me of the chaos writing in Dark Souls 1. Also, there's plenty of other places you find the explosive stone piles. The ones I'm used to encountering are at one of the grave sites, with all off the sarcophagi on the surface full of rune fragments. There are other places, I know, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

The spiral shape is reminiscent of the waystone swirl. Fitting.

I think the Lookout Stones were given the abilities of the Guard Stones for when they're attacked but aren't meant to fight, just observe which is why they don't seem to do anything unprovoked

Aren't the ones near the well in Caelid right underneath the Sellia Evergaol at the top of the canyon? There's also a 'stray' one in Stormhill, just crawling around in the woods north of the Warmaster's Shack. No idea why it's there.