'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 record of the realm's wars, kept in stone across the Lands Between.

'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 speaks of a sovereign alliance rotting from within, and the traces of a bloody conspiracy; the Routing of the Ancient Dragons inscribes Godwyn and Fortissax's friendship. The monuments are unsigned; their author is never named. The Tarnished who visits each monument reads, in three lines, a piece of the war whose ending they have come to write.