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Q: In the The Mysterious Portals article The Stony Stare, we learn that the Empyrean stone heads are Falatacot ruins known as The Heads of Tafelicor, and they may have some thirst for combat. Later in AC, there a few of these stone heads which are called Watchers - the Devastated Watcher, Ruined Watcher, and Watcher of the Deep - which are all related to accessing a lost Falatacot island. What relation, if any, do the Heads of Tafelicor have to the Old Ones / Slithis / Watchers?
A: Those three named "Watcher" heads were added after my time on the team, so I can't answer what was intended with them specifically.
Stone heads in general were intended to be Falatacot artifacts, built so their eyes were fixed upon places and items the Falatacot felt should be guarded. It never came up at the time, but it would make sense to me that they were enchanted in such a way that someone who knew the appropriate spells could look out through the "eyes" of any of those heads.
The shorter Mysterious Portals articles were written by the web team at Microsoft, often with minimal or no feedback offered by Turbine. They occasionally contain information of less-than-perfect canonicity.
