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They're the titans the Nox were attempting to ritualistically ascend into their Lord of Night. That's why all the eternal cities have remains of screaming dead fused to the very stones of their halls and spires. The Nox ritual was attempting to mimic the Hornsent's Gate of Divinity and the Secret Rite (or the Hornsent were mimicking the Nox's ritual, but the Nox never figured it out and the Hornsent did). Either way, the Nox botched the fucking ritual and they started working with mimic tears, god slaying weapons (which metaphysically cut through the glintstone thread of fate), and strange duplication transmutations (seen in Noklateo).