Born from the bones of Eryndal Heights, the Stone Golems are vast beings of granite and crystal, shaped by the land’s oldest magic. At rest they lie hidden in cliffs and caverns, mistaken for pillars or boulders. Yet when they wake, they rise with earth-shaking force, each step grinding like mountains in motion.

Their advance is slow but unstoppable. Trees splinter before them, rivers shift course, and even stone walls yield beneath their weight. Yet they do not stir without cause; bound to the deep rhythms of Vhalandar, they move only when balance falters. To the people who glimpse them, their coming is both dread and deliverance—terrible in power, yet always in service to the land that birthed them.

The Thaeryx sing of an age long past, when balance faltered and a shadow bled into Vhalandar. From beyond the veil came a host of specters—restless spirits that clung to flesh and leaf, spreading rot wherever they touched. Crops withered, rivers blackened, and a wasting sickness crept through both beast and kin. At the heart of it all was said to be a necromancer from another realm, cloaked in a crown of bone, whose will bent the dead into mockeries of life.

It was then that the mountains stirred. From the cliffs and caverns of Eryndal, the Stone Golems awoke, their eyes burning like crystal embers in the dark. They tore free from their resting places and descended into Thalorien, their steps shaking the valleys. Wherever the specters gathered, the Golems crushed them into dust; wherever corruption spread, they tore open the earth to bury it beneath leagues of stone. Against the necromancer himself they marched as an unyielding host, and though no song tells how the battle ended, it is said his screams still echo through the hollows of the Heights when the wind is right.

When the land was quiet once more, the Golems returned to their cliffs. They pressed themselves back into the mountainsides, moss and lichen veiling their colossal forms until they were indistinguishable from rock. Since that age, they have not moved—but the Thaeryx warn that if such darkness ever rises again, the earth itself will answer, and the Stone Golems will march once more.