Before moving on and after Guirok brings up the statues again...
Once he learns about the statues in this room, Aravashnial becomes very intrigued. He shares one of his theories with the group—an old legend that after the First Crusade a group of crusaders who had become infected with Abyssal energies fled into these caverns to raise their deformed children in peace, and that their descendants live on today in the tunnels below the city. The presence of these statues here gives significant credence to the tale, as the elf assumes they were carved by the children.