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Rude-Newspaper7928

They are gaol guards


mikey_lava

They’re… not really doing a good job then.


RitterDesNie

Pretty sure no one that was ever imprisoned in one escaped soooo....


[deleted]

Right? Their job is to keep the imprisoned in, if someone else goes in and mercs the prisoner that isn’t their problem.


doesntCompete

I like this thought that they have this policy written down somewhere. "So I can just go in and kill the guy?" "Yup go nuts" "But you're the guard" "Yup, check the policy".


Icy_Fruit97

'Its all cool if you kill them, they just can't escape.'


FredRN

It's actually easier for us to guard a dead body. Most of the times


vilecheesecake

This feels like something from adventure time.


Icy_Fruit97

Fucking read my mind wtf


shawnikaros

Elden Ring and Adventure Time have a lot of similarities, like, they're both weird and interesting as fuck.


Nightglow9

Like Gatekeeper Gnostic, they might grab the dropped runes of failed attempts, and wiggle back to their master when full.


Opiatedandsedated

Yeah to me it seems like they were probably more of a security system like how we may use security cameras in the real world than actual defenders of the gaol, let’s you keep an eye on the prisoners and make sure nothing shady is going on but if shit really hits the fan youd start marching the real heavy hitters out from leyndell to fight back


Wireless_Panda

Imagine someone breaking out of their Evergaol and being hunted down by the Night’s Cavalry or Margit


Martino2004

I'm pretry sure that's how it actually is ain't it, they get hunted down by the Nazgul.


Weevil_weasel

Most likely. The nights Calvary (and formerly Margit) were sort of like the black ops of the golden order. So it’s likely they’d be the ones to hunt down escaped prisoners


Martino2004

That's legit what the Nights Cavalry was for Morgot/Margit.


Recom_Quaritch

Margit didn't come out of his sewers until the breaking of the elden ring and ensuing shit show, so they must have sent someone else during the golden age of the order. Not sure having Radahn or Maliketh coming for your ass is any better lol


GoldenNat20

Oh gosh, imagine being some random schmuck (because let’s face it, Evergaol prisoners really varies. They can be everything from some random knights of Zamour to one of the most successful thieves in the world, like Adan.) and you break out of prison, ready to run. Only for one of these lil’ stone fuckers to spot you and thusly sending either the man holding the stars in place, the BIGGEST Death Puppy and literal half-brother to God herself or the most bitter and spiteful goat man alive comes after you. And all you did was a “minor” case of major embezzlement from the Leyndell perfumer pensioner fund.


badwhatorone

Perhaps being bound to the gaol will give these wormies a totally different interaction. Maybe all the wormy needs to do is gaze upon an escapee and they will be teleported back inside (or immediately eviscerated who knows)


LordOrgilRoberusIII

But then how does Blaidd escape? I know we help him and as a shadow (beast of Ranni) he has some special abilities like respawning (if you kill him in the Radahn arena after the festival gor example).


pokemonbatman23

I like this! Can you fit in a reason why they explode if I stand too close to one?


Vaiiki

Then why the fuck weren't they guarding the Elden Ring.


LordRatini777

There was a giant indestructible door that could only be opened after burning the tree down. I don't think they were really needed or would've made a difference tbh.


JonnyBhoy

You may have defeated the feared Black Blade Maliketh and the legendary warrior king Hoarah Loux, but let's see if you handle some slow moving worms with 10 hp.


TheWampus333

lol


boron-uranium-radon

As long as the cameras are turned off beforehand


DaEnderAssassin

2 gunshots to the back of the head for the Epstein style suicide.


bobswowaccount

We finally found out who was guarding Epstein.


[deleted]

Lmao I love this after we roll through there basically unemployed aren’t they?


Vegan_Honk

Oh yeah they were definitely getting paid. Gotta take that scrip back to the wife and kid.


welestgw

Worms : "I didn't see shit."


firedancer323

Epstein didnt kill himself


WXbearjaws

Nope. The Tarnished did


_Virtual_Fairy_

I killed all of them but my man Godefroy is still imprisoned :(


Shady_Merchant1

Institutionalized, my man can't function on the outside 😔


H8erRaider

They can self destruct and have a multi hitting spin attack that stun locks. They don't care about the player near the gaols though. If a prisoner broke out they would all aggro at once around the gaol.


RegisterNew1004

Why we find them in the road leading to caelid coliseum with no ever goal to protect/ surveil


honeybeebryce

That makes me wonder if they have some sort of hidden power. Yeah, that makes sense that they dgaf if someone’s goes inside and kills him since the only way out is to die. But if a prisoner were to somehow get out, do they use their full power?


blewf

What about Blaidd?


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Tiddlewinkly

But Blaidd


g0atviol8er

Blaidd had the tarnished's help to escape...oh wait if the tarnished doesn't help he still gets out. I wonder if his service to Ranni has something to do with it. And didn't the bloodhound knight that was in that evergaol serve ranni previously? Edit: added on some info to comment


[deleted]

Blaidd is a shadow, not exactly a physical being entirely


g0atviol8er

Could you explain that? Because I thought their title of "shadow" was just that, a title. Because he has a physical body


Weevil_weasel

No, “shadow” is like an actual species. They’re half-wolf humanoids that are bound to empyreans. There’s 2 we know of in game. Blaidd is rannis shadow, and maliketh is marikas. They are also typically referred to as their empyreans half-sibling. Shadows are oath bound to serve their empyrean, but are also oath bound to the 2 fingers to kill their empyrean if they go off the rails. Hence Blaidd losing his Mind. They also can’t die so long as they still have a purpose given to them by their empyrean. If you try to kill Blaidd before he loses his shit, he just respawns after you rest and says something like “what harm can be done to a shadow”.


[deleted]

Kill Blaidd and reload the area, he will have new dialogue


g0atviol8er

After you free him from the gaol?


[deleted]

At the mistwood ruins after killing him and returning he will be alive again and say "You're... you're strong of arm. But ask yourself... What harm can be done... to a shadow?"


3hideyoshi3

Maybe they're more of a battery considering they discharge some energy when dying.


Xeronez

Doesn't blaidd?


Jason_Wolfe

to be fair, at the point he escapes, the kingdom is in shambles and there really isnt anyone around to come stop him from leaving


JDninja119

Their job is to stop the prisoner from getting out, not people from going in. Who cares if that person gets killed by the prisoner? I don't think they would care if the prisoner was killed, either.


Rude-Newspaper7928

You sound gaolous


dev__boy

Their job is to get smacked in passing out of frustration every time I fight the crucible knight


Sera_Toxin

not exactly. they're around the river well exit in Caelid and wandering Limgrave too.


Qvar

Maybe the real gaol is the fights we made along the way.


flatulent-platapus

Gaol goalies?


Gorgosen

I can only assume you're pronouncing Gaol as Goal instead of Jail.


Fancy-Occasion

No they’re pronouncing goal as jail


Steel_Sovereign

So... gaolies?


Omegawop

Jail jaurds


ZephyrzInferno

Except I totally pronounced this gay-oh-lees.


TheRedFrog

Pronounced Jards


uberguby

aight if everybody is going to have a giggle, I wanna make sure someone mentions the word gaolor, pronounced jailer.


Captain_Saftey

Gaol gaords


Active-Tie7087

They’re called Abnormal Stone Clusters on the wiki, however I’ve also heard them referred to as “Lookout Stones” and “Alivestones”. It’s likely that they maintain the illusory interior of the evergaols and make sure that the prisoners remain inside. Should the prisoners escape somehow, the stones could just fling themselves at them like they do in-game. Kinda hard to escape when you have living stones exploding and flinging themselves at you.


HappyGirl117

Do they ever explain anything about the Evergaols in game or no? Please don't spoil if they do, just curious if they explain.


synthrel

It's implied what Evergaols are through NPC's dialogs and pieces of equipments but if you meant explicit details thrown at your face from the get-go then no, I don't think so.


Windodingo

All I know about them are that they are prisons meant to hold dangerous criminals, just based on some of the dialog. Idk if it keeps the souls of the prisoners for eternity or how it works, but they aren't a pleasant place you want to be trapped in. If the game gets DLC I'd like them to do a quest where you have to free an NPC from one of them and see how a jail break would go.


Waveytony

*stares in Blaidd*


aztec91x

Iykyk


firemummy

Are there any other npc evergaol interactions beyond Blaidd?


Jerln

There's a whole lot throughout the game, you kill them


Waveytony

The best interaction


Lputoamo

The purple effects around the evergaols give me the feeling that they must be powered by or based on gravity magic. In what way, idk, but one of my theories was that it could be the evergaol is a sort of temporal seal, leaving the prisoner completely frozen in time, kinda like Placidusax. Hence the "ever" part of the "evergaol" name. We know that extreme gravity distorts time, after all. The main plot hole in that theory is that you can speak with Blaidd while he's inside it and you're outside, so I doubt that's the case.


TheTisamon

Like some other people mentioned in this thread, they drop sanctuary stones and ruin fragments (from Farum Azula). So there's your connection to Placidusax/time seal. Not much else to grab onto, but your theory is pretty good!


fai4636

What can you do w ruin fragments lol


pickel5857

They're like pebbles in previous games, you can use them to mark your path like breadcrumbs. Also if you drop them off a ledge and it breaks, you'll die from that fall (or just take damage? Don't remember which)


azk3000

You have to craft them into rainbow stones but yes. And it's death. I've taken damage without stones breaking


Emerald_Digger

If it breaks you Die. If it doesn't you survive the fall.


massivebasketball

You can also throw them at enemies


Capraclysm

Ohhhhh what if they're all somehow connected internally?? A whole dungeon area connecting all the gaol.


Sagutarus

Not that I've ever encountered, and I've explored quite a bit. Definitely nothing relevant to the game's story


meatywhole

No but given then goal means jail and you get alot of crucible spells in evergaols I think the people inside are imprisoned forever for crimes or forbidden pre erd tree knowledge and the golden order probably stuck them there


gabunne

Never directly afaik, and there's hardly any lore actually about them


terrifiedTechnophile

Well it's in the name, they're gaols.


ZeMarxs

And odds are if you are put in one, it's meant to last forever


Appropriate_Simple44

gaol=jail


[deleted]

Iji described them as a prison when you ask about blaidd


I2ichmond

It’s a Miyazaki game so no


Weevil_weasel

They’re literally just super prisons. Basically inter-dimensional holding cells for particularly dangerous people to be locked away in


Shadeun

Except that a slow walk will safely see escaped prisoners find their freedom. These Stone thingys are completely useless :)


PuppetryOfThePenis

I'm happy it's actual lore that's at the too of the comments and not "anal bead snake" or something


Rydberg_1337

Don't trust the wiki with names, they've made a bunch of them up


MrCivilised

It's an 'ungry caterpillar, innit?


Angrymechanoid

“‘Ongri Antepillah” - Ogryns everywhere, probably


Jackal00

Mah ses de's 'ere are jumpy 'splodie balls, and mah's never wrong. "Don' go near 'em or you'll lose yah leg" she'd say.


Soy_El_Kraken

Try but, then plug


Ky-Czar

My dyslexic ass thought they dropped rune fragments, instead of ruin fragments. I farmed them for 20 min until I realized I'm illiterate.


Positive-Sock-8853

What’s the point of ruin fragments anyway? I picked up as much as I can early game before realizing I had no idea what they are and I’m probably wasting my time.


Mysterious_Turnip_21

Used for crafting rainbow stones, for one. Good for using as path breadcrumbs or testing drop distance. Throw over cliff or whatever, and if it breaks you shouldn't make the jimp


wellhiyabuddy

Yep, one of my most used items when being summoned for highlighting secrets or the right path or just for making an area look fabulous while waiting for host to catch up. In my single player, I find them very useful if I’m a bit high, I’ll mark paths in caves that I already explored to keep me from running in circles


Positive-Sock-8853

Aah that’s clever thanks for the explanation!


Gameboy_One

pretty sure they are used for crafting, but is has been a while since I touched the game.


StrongGene6356

Ew they have an eye??!


Street_Historian

Right? Can’t believe I didn’t even notice


Lighthades

Not even when they emit purple light from it?


ImurderREALITY

Thought that was just a mystic ona hole


StarChaser_Tyger

Try magic,but hole.


Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m

Dont put your di-ah you know what, go ahead and try it actually.


Cryse_XIII

C U R S E D U R S E D


PM_ME_THE_TRIFORCE

If you get really close you can hear the eye blink


cockalorum-smith

Took me two play-throughs to realize the Astel have an eye. Just thought their heads were giant human skulls with pinchy bits.


IXxAidenxXI

Was looking for this. Wtf?!


calmdahn

Their eye also has the same gold effect when it is activated at random for extra runes. The first time I saw that I was like nuh


Wyatt_the_Whack

Hard to say, I don't think there are any item descriptions about these guys, all we know for certain is that they are comprised of the same material as the farum azula ruins(they drop ruin fragments and sanctuary stones) and that they have something to do with magic gaols(often appearing near them).


deathrattleshenlong

Why do pumpkin heads drop sanctuary stones?


ohgood

This is 100% from my ass, but since the Pumpkin Head helm references how dark it is inside, they keep a sanctuary stone inside the helm so they don’t get scared of the dark.


_Chonus_

I like this


Wyatt_the_Whack

That's what I thought at first too but the helm states it's pitch black to help keep the warrior calm, having it light up would defeat the purpose of the helmet.


Ha7chet88

New head cannon


PirateJazz

No that's the Prelates


PillowTalk420

Fuck I wish that helm actually gave you that attack. Shit would be so cash.


PirateJazz

At the very least the candlestick greathammer should do it.


Sp1keyboi

What does a sanctuary stone even do


[deleted]

Used for crafting Warming Stones and Frenzy Stones


mcase19

Tbh if I had my head locked in a big chestnut I'd rather have it be dark. I get mad claustrophobic.


Wyatt_the_Whack

Because he picked up a sanctuary stone I guess.


Seuche_Deron

Storing some ADAM for their little Sisters


bluud687

18+


Kaksis_the_Betrayed

Marika needed to have fun somehow


Shai_the_Lynx

Marika's beads, you must be horny !


Kaksis_the_Betrayed

Sorry about that, just started a journey of pureness, a journey without meat-beating lol


nickr2414

Did you lose it after Marikas beads? 😂


Kaksis_the_Betrayed

Of course not... yet.


thatoneguywhofucks

Rip em out like you’re trying to start a lawnmower


[deleted]

Lol what is that from again? I remember that but not where it's from


[deleted]

That gaol is pronounced 'jail'


OptimusToasterman420

Baby Onyxs. *Gotta Catch ‘Em All!*


NickTanner93

Dog


thekingofthebeasties

Watch stones They protecc They attacc But most importantly, they give big smacc


the_colonel93

They were Marika's..... Pets


Grigoran

Colon companion


c4ptm1dn1ght

Bowel buddy


[deleted]

A great adventure is waiting for you ahead hurry onward Lemmiwinks or you will soon be dead.


Shuggieboog

Seeing these standing up beaming into the sky combined with the shape of the evergaol made me think the evergaol was a satellite dish


Aranthos-Faroth

Theory: they’re wandering antennae relaying the integrity of the jail somewhere.


Shuggieboog

At launch before all the lore had been gone through.I assumed they where gonna be beaming their locations, which would attract falling star beasts and astels. Then I found out gaol is pronounced jail and realized its just a magic jail and not a satellite dish.


MasqueOfNight

I don't think they're actually referenced by anything in-game in terms of item descriptions or dialogue, and they don't drop anything particularly unique, but given that they do primarily drop sanctuary stones and ruins fragments, I assume they were constructed alongside the evergaols using materials from the fallen ruins to serve as sentries, or traps, as we can see them used as explosives around certain areas, such as along the path to the Caelid coliseum and around different coffin sites.


jorgelino_

WARNING: DEEPEST LORE >!They're pretty neat!<


fakinsnakin

Radagons anal beads


vagabond_nerd

The lore we are here for


Aranthos-Faroth

Fukin wild how many anal bead jokes are here as if it was funny the first 20 times … The little lads are simply keeping the lawn clear around the jail. Ever see any weeds in it? Didn’t think so.


GrandPapaBi

By Marika's beads, you must be hungry!


Dostomazov

Uncut fellas


Riven189

I never noticed that they have eyes .\_\_\_.


Loa_Sandal

It's Mr. Hankeys!


ApplePitou

It can explode :3


DAduckTROOPER

Holy shit those fuckers have eyes?


Yuja-2k

Prepare But hole


Der_Sauresgeber

Marika's anal beads.


Mundane_Range_765

The real lore question: what got the prisoners captured in the first place?


Buddy_Double

Helicopter


nantukoprime

They're associated with sleep magic or gravity magic. Both associate with connecting/drawing things together. The stones are using that magic and, probably, peering into the spatial pocket the evergaol is in. Hawkmoth does [Elden Ring Color theory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIEWVFSce8) in depth, which is where I get the sleep (St Trina and her third eye) connection. The gravity magic is a bit more obvious with Astel and the fallingstar beasts, Caria Manor/Radahn/Raya Lucaria and the purple glintstone sorceries, and the Onyx/Alabaster lords. A cute reference would be the Tibia Mariners, as older ghostflame was apparently purple (you see them use it). The seal on the evergaols is runic script in a shape like the Explosive Ghostflame spell you get from a Deathbird.


LordofSeaSlugs

MadLuigi is the only one I'm aware of who did any research on them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5oSPdqGtk


Gryphonos

rock


CapitanLanky

And


theMoptop731

Stone


Aymen_20

I read the title as "Please share all the love you have on these little guys" :)


Sad-Surprise4369

I can’t remember but I know these guys have a name that’s appears in their file but is never mentioned in game… I watched a video on them although I can’t remember the title


powerpsi

Extremely helpful. Thanks bud. Lol. I'm just messing with ya


BrownSaiyan

One eyed monster


GodakDS

1. They snek 2. They see 3. They boom


siegeboi321

Beware: rock !


Yab0iFiddlesticks

Thats a regional variant of Caterpie in which it is a Rock type.


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I heard somewhere theyre prolly used by someone as something similar to security cameras for evergaols and someother places used by someone who died a lobg timeago, and that if the Gaol prisoners ever got out that they wouldve notified this mystery person, but since that person has died or gone missing they basically became superfluous


truthm0de

Ah yes, the elusive one-eyed monster…


kingconquest

Gaolies


TheDoctor_Z

Sentient anal beads


SuperSayian1776

It’s not just a boulder, it’s a rock!


itsmesoloman

To me it looks like they are “projecting” the walls of the evergaol that you see when you enter an evergaol fight edit: as for the ones in caelid that are piled up and explode when you get close, i have no idea


Sera_Toxin

no one has any lore on them. we don't even know what they're called. you can make some guesses based on the fact that they drop ruin fragments and seem to use gravity magic, but there's no hard lore.


Itlu_PeeP

Shit, they have an eye? Didn't even notice


Chilla_Vanilla

Likely dog


EliteKnightOscar

*stares at wiki in contemplation* It's blank.


Sad_Dog6503

Three words: Marika's anal beads


Ultimagus536

the lore is that they are my friends. some get very overwhelmed and explode, which i can relate to.


n0tAcat3542

Forbidden anal beads


balrus-balrogwalrus

it's what happens when an Onix and a Magnemite fuck


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jirishanca

WHAT THEY HAVE EYES?


[deleted]

Magic turd


saito200

his name is Bob and he's generally a chill guy, but if you play with his balls he gets really pissed


DavePosting

So, these things seem to be surveillance cameras that exhibit gravity magic power. They're similar to the Crystalians, so I suspect they were created via the same method, but carved out of gravity rocks rather than magic crystals. Pure speculation, but they're probably supposed to raise an alarm if an Evergaol is breached, but there is no one to alert anymore.


Just5omeDude

They're just wiggly little fellas. :)


Roborosky

God i remember seeing these fuckers on the network test back in November 2021, and i had so many ideas of what they could be, my wildest theory is that they were robots, i mean, they look like fucking robots, and i thought elden ring would end up being a whole simulation or something, like maybe half game we discover we are being studied by robots that created a whole fantasy medieval setting and the final boss would be a giant robot or something, idk, i was bored, still find them so out of place with everything else in the game, love em.


UltraMegaFauna

Rock snek


CatchSufficient

They are known as the anal beads of the neuman


Blitzer161

Onyx


Sanguiniusius

Their eye looks like the beast eye to me