Contraterrene Petrichor

Ever since the Solar Guardians dimmed, only the ancient carved Artifacts that were left behind kept the natives safe. With the Runed siphoning even what little energies the artifacts have remaining, the natives are left with few options for some semblance of safety. In the eternal Nakt, which too seems to dim each ay, the natives send small groups of people into the caverns seeking the rumored grave of the guardians. the one long rumored to be where they have been kept dormant trapped by the runed, lured to sleep whilst their powers are sapped for mysterious gains. Once a year, a group of people are sent in at various entrances to the caverns to seek out the guardians, and none have returned...
  ...until this year when one returned, unscathed, confused, and thinking in muddled thoughts. thing is, they were sent into the caverns 50 years ago. Why them? Why now? and how did they manage to return unscathed? All the people know is they returned with a scrap of parchment that reads:
 
 
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