Artifacts from the Nameless City
These legends date back to 1894, when an American man from the Commonwealth discovered something modern science and recorded history had no answers for. Seeking the lost city of Ubar in the desert of Rub' al Khali in the Middle East, this wealthy explorer instead found one of three artifacts buried nearby. This caused such an interaction that he lost his mind, and disappeared soon after he returned to his country with many assuming that he had taken his own life deep in the woods where no one would ever find the body.
While his story was sadly cut short, some of his diaries and notes survived. These fragments were collected from the various homes he owned outside the Commonwealth, as his family declined any and all contact with outsiders after the loss of their patriarch. Incomplete, the best guess anyone ever had before atomic fire rained down across the planet was that these devices came from an extra-terrestrial source, or a species lost to time that had developed technology before the last ice age.
The pre-war notes theorize that two other crowns exist with vastly different 'personalities' to keep each other in check. Though most discount at least half of these papers as complete stark raving madness, the man writing them did claim that he was losing control of his actions, and started 'joining the ones in the stone' just before this breadcrumb trail ends. Sadly, anything else that remains is kept through oral history and those stories range from a plausible to the truly ridiculous. As it was never publicly analyzed or studied, the world may never know what Lorenzo Cabot found in that desert..
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