'Lord Godfrey, at last at the end of his campaign His golden armies unvanquished and unbowed Yet finds grace lost, tattered and faded.' The Historical Monuments are stone slabs erected at the sites of the canon's pre-game battles. Each is etched with a brief stanza describing what happened there. The Tarnished discovers them passively, by walking the field where the engagement occurred. Together they form the realm's open-air history book, a chronological record the Order keeps in stone where the Order's parchments cannot be trusted.

'The Battle of Aeonia Radahn and Malenia locked in stalemate Then, the scarlet rot blooms.' The monuments cover every major prior conflict the canon recognises. The Battle of Aeonia inscribes Malenia's release of the Scarlet Rot against Radahn ; the First Defense of Leyndell inscribes the conspiracy that led to Godwyn's death ; the Routing of the Ancient Dragons inscribes Godwyn and Fortissax's friendship. The monuments are unsigned. The author is the Erdtree's stone, the same anonymous chiseler who carved the Order's law into the Elden Ring itself. The Tarnished who visits each monument reads, in three lines, a piece of the war whose ending they have come to write.