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    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Sunken chamber where sarcophagi float in slow subterranean water (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Flooded crypt with half-submerged stone lids",
            "Basement antechamber with water pooling on mosaic floors",
            "Collapsed stair where phosphorescent algae outline glyphs",
            "Narrow passage leading to a submerged doorway",
            "Pillar forest reflected in inky water"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Bubbles rise from sealed coffins revealing carved eyes",
            "A torchlight ripples across water and uncovers a relief",
            "Water droplets strike the lid in rhythmic, unnatural patterns",
            "A diver's silhouette passes beyond a column of glyphs"
        ],
        "camera": "Low, slow aquatic tracking with periodic submersed POV pushes",
        "accents": [
            "soft bioluminescent edge-light on algae",
            "wet-stone micro-detail catching tiny caustics"
        ],
        "mood": "suffocating wonder",
        "lighting": "cool moonlit shafts filtered through water, high contrast",
        "style": "subterranean gothic"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Sunlit burial terrace where funerary statues watch the valley (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Terraced mausoleums overlooking a dry landscape",
            "Stone colonnade lined with guardian effigies",
            "An open rotunda with an engraved sarcophagus",
            "Steps scarred by centuries of pilgrim feet",
            "A balustrade where votive offerings lay in the dust"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Wind lifts prayer ribbons tracing ancestral names",
            "A visitor lays a hand on an inscription and it warms",
            "Doves take flight and their shadows reveal hidden glyphs",
            "A small sandstorm clears to reveal a new symbol carved overnight"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide establishing crane with slow push-ins on statuary faces",
        "accents": [
            "golden rim-light emphasizing carved relief edges",
            "sandy specular highlights on weathered stone"
        ],
        "mood": "solemn reverence",
        "lighting": "warm high noon with soft ambient fill",
        "style": "archaeological elegy"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Night corridor lined with torches where shadows form processions (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Long corridor with flickering sconces and polished floors",
            "A row of alcoves where bronze urns glimmer",
            "Low vaulted ceiling carved with constellations",
            "A narrow aisle where the floor tilts toward a sealed door",
            "Steps descending to an obsidian threshold"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Shadows lengthen and detach into silent marchers",
            "A torch sputters and windless drafts extinguish flames",
            "Steps yield a low harmonic resonance",
            "An invisible hand traces a path along the wall"
        ],
        "camera": "Tracking shot with pulsing lamp-synced pushes and whip-zooms on glyphs",
        "accents": [
            "warm torch caustics with smoky diffusion",
            "polished stone reflection to double the procession"
        ],
        "mood": "ceremonial dread",
        "lighting": "low amber torchlight with dense shadow pockets",
        "style": "ritualistic suspense"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Daytime excavation where archaeologists unearth a sealed crypt entrance (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Shored trench with linen wraps half-buried",
            "Careful grid markings and labeled pottery shards",
            "A tarp-covered trench opening to a stone ring",
            "A sudden wind revealing an antechamber glyph",
            "A team clustered around a slowly lifting lid"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Brushes clear dust to reveal a painted guardian",
            "A shard clicks against another to form a pattern",
            "A lid slides and releases a breath of stale air",
            "A radio crackles as a compass needle spins"
        ],
        "camera": "Methodical over-the-shoulder inserts with slow pullbacks to the site",
        "accents": [
            "soft daylight rim-light on dust particles",
            "earth micro-texture and tool-sheen details"
        ],
        "mood": "cautious excitement",
        "lighting": "diffuse daylight with crisp shadows in trench walls",
        "style": "scientific discovery"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Underground garden of funerary offerings glowing with spectral flora (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Chamber of urns surrounded by luminous moss",
            "Petal-strewn floor where blooms pulse faintly",
            "Stone bench with woven wreaths that float slightly",
            "Veined leaf-canopy suspended from a low vault",
            "A pool mirroring a painted ceiling of stars"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Petals rise and arrange themselves into new patterns",
            "A visitor's shadow overlaps with a wreath and alters its glow",
            "Insects of light circle a particular sarcophagus",
            "Tiny motes coalesce to form ephemeral glyphs"
        ],
        "camera": "Gentle glide over the garden with soft macro inserts on bioluminescent petals",
        "accents": [
            "soft spectral bloom on flora edges",
            "wet-mirror caustics on pool surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "ethereal melancholy",
        "lighting": "internal cold biolume with deep surrounding void",
        "style": "dreamlike funerary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Horizon-facing crypt carved into a cliff where sunlight reveals hidden text (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Cliff-carved door opening to a shallow tomb",
            "Bas-relief frieze leading to a sunlit niche",
            "A terrace altar stacked with small stone offerings",
            "Wind-polished stair leading up to a bright promontory",
            "A single broken column framing the sea view"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Sunbeams slide over letters making them shimmer readable",
            "Sand drifts reveal an inlaid map beneath feet",
            "A gull perches and drops a feather near an offering",
            "A scholar traces a line that vibrates faintly in daylight"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow lateral dolly along cliff face with intimate top-down reveals",
        "accents": [
            "harsh sun rim on carved edges",
            "sand micro-detail and blown dust caustics"
        ],
        "mood": "exalted mystery",
        "lighting": "bright sun contrast with deep chthonic shadows",
        "style": "coastal antiquity"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A sealed antechamber where wind triggers whispering stones (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Tight chamber with wind-sculpted dust ribbons",
            "Pillared room with cracked bas-reliefs",
            "A throne stone inset with a glassy gem",
            "A low vault decorated with painted animals",
            "Side niches hosting small clay effigies"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Dust ribbons whisper like a chorus when stirred",
            "Gem insets pulse to the rhythm of passing air",
            "Effigies turn their heads imperceptibly",
            "A passerby hears a name whispered from the wall"
        ],
        "camera": "Tension-building slow turns with close inserts on whispering surfaces",
        "accents": [
            "cool rim on carved stone and dust-laden beam glints",
            "tiny particles catching tapered light"
        ],
        "mood": "tense expectancy",
        "lighting": "low moon shafts with soft backlight",
        "style": "ancient whisper-thriller"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "Sun-baked mausoleum courtyard where offerings crack in heat (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rectangular courtyard lined with low stone boxes",
            "A central altar bowl cracked and dry",
            "Clay pots with faded pigments near a weathered stair",
            "A braided rope barrier around a fresh excavation",
            "A lone fig tree casting patchy shade"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Offerings carbonate and split as heat intensifies",
            "A scroll unrolls by itself under solar pressure",
            "Insects gather at ceremonial stains that refuse to dry",
            "A child's toy left at the altar bakes and curls"
        ],
        "camera": "Wide, arid panorama intercut with tight texture macros",
        "accents": [
            "hard sun caustics on baked clay",
            "dust micro-detail raised by hot air"
        ],
        "mood": "parched solemnity",
        "lighting": "harsh midday heat with high contrast",
        "style": "desert reliquary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A crypt of glass where relics float inside sealed cases (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of glass reliquaries on plinths",
            "A central floating sarcophagus sealed in crystal",
            "Night-guarded corridor reflecting endless cases",
            "Mirror-like glass floor with slow hazes beneath",
            "A control console with faded warning glyphs"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Objects inside float and slowly rotate unaided",
            "Cases emit a faint hum when past a threshold",
            "A fingerprint appears on glass then fades",
            "A guard's radio picks up a harmonized chorus"
        ],
        "camera": "Sterile glide with surgical close-ups and mirrored symmetry",
        "accents": [
            "cold glass caustics and pinpoint speculars",
            "soft internal diffusion around relic silhouettes"
        ],
        "mood": "clinical uncanny",
        "lighting": "cool exhibit lighting layered over night black",
        "style": "museum-futurist tomb"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A dawn rite where villagers bring sunlight offerings to an exposed chamber (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Open pit with woven mats laid in concentric rings",
            "A procession up the slope carrying trays of polished stones",
            "Thatch roofs silhouetted behind a low ridge",
            "A carved lintel catching first light",
            "A musician playing a single sustained reed note"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Offerings are arranged in sun-accurate positions",
            "A flute call causes nearby glyphs to hum faintly",
            "Sand on the floor forms rigid paths where people step",
            "A child releases a torch that flares and then dies"
        ],
        "camera": "Procession-following wide with intimate inserts on hands and offerings",
        "accents": [
            "warm sunrise rim on woven textures",
            "soft golden caustics on polished stones"
        ],
        "mood": "communal reverence",
        "lighting": "gentle dawn warmth with long cast shadows",
        "style": "cultural ritual documentary"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A subterranean library of scrolls guarded by carved sentinels (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Rows of stone shelves topped with clay tubes",
            "Narrow aisles lit by occasional oil lamps",
            "Scroll clean-room where dust is forbidden",
            "A central lectern with a cracked codex",
            "A spiral stair descending into stacked catalogues"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Sentinel statues blink faintly when a page turns",
            "Pages turn on their own to reveal the same verse",
            "A lamp guttering reveals latent ink glyphs",
            "A catalogue entry rewrites itself slowly"
        ],
        "camera": "Quiet tracking with tight macro on scroll edges and carve detail",
        "accents": [
            "warm lamp edge-light on papyrus fibers",
            "soft reflective caustics on polished stone shelves"
        ],
        "mood": "scholarly dread",
        "lighting": "pockets of warm lamp glow in cavernous dark",
        "style": "archival horror"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A sunlit corridor of painted kings where colors bleed into dust (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Painted frieze showing a dynasty procession",
            "A collapsed paint-splattered mosaic floor",
            "A narrow lightwell stitching rooms together",
            "A stair carved with royal names inlaid with colored stone",
            "A ceremonial threshold stained in pigment"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Pigments flake and drift like colored snow",
            "A hand passes and colors trace new shapes",
            "A scholar dips a brush and the color resists",
            "A child traces a finger and a small portrait reanimates"
        ],
        "camera": "Deliberate lateral glide with tight push-ins on pigment texture",
        "accents": [
            "saturated paint rim-light on fractured pigments",
            "stone micro-grain catching color dust"
        ],
        "mood": "colorful melancholy",
        "lighting": "bright sun accentuating flaking pigment shadows",
        "style": "painterly decay"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A central chamber where a celestial map aligns with the night sky (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Dome ceiling with inlaid star-map of mother culture",
            "Stone floor inlaid with concentric planetary rings",
            "A central pedestal rotated to point at a comet bearing",
            "Side niches with planetary offerings",
            "A stair spiraling to a small aperture showing the actual stars"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Inlaid planets shift imperceptibly as a star passes",
            "A beam aligns and opens a tiny hidden drawer",
            "Visitors feel a gentle pressure as the map completes",
            "An orb placed on the pedestal vibrates and sings"
        ],
        "camera": "Top-down slow rotation with orbital dolly-ins on celestial inlays",
        "accents": [
            "cold metallic inlay speculars",
            "soft star-caustic glitter on dome surfaces"
        ],
        "mood": "cosmic reverence",
        "lighting": "deep night punctuated by narrow star shafts",
        "style": "astral antiquity"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A sun-trap niche behind a broken lintel where insects weave offerings (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Tiny niche with threaded nests of silk and pollen",
            "Wasp-hive shaped offerings pinned into stone",
            "Sunlit alcove where moth scales glisten",
            "A narrow slot where wind plays a distant whistle",
            "A bowl of resin hardened into a star pattern"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Insects rearrange silk offerings when someone approaches",
            "A finger brushed across silk leaves a temporary print",
            "Moths gather and form transient halos in sunbeams",
            "Resin cracks to reveal a tiny carved symbol"
        ],
        "camera": "Micro-focus macro of silk weaves with gentle dolly back to scene",
        "accents": [
            "sunlit fiber caustics and insect wing micro-detail",
            "tiny resin highlights catching sun points"
        ],
        "mood": "intimate reverence",
        "lighting": "direct warm sun with high-contrast micro-shadows",
        "style": "miniature ritual"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A moonlit sacrificial hall where echoes answer questions (night)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Long hall ringed with basalt columns",
            "An altar slab stained in old rites",
            "Hanging braziers that sputter in a windless void",
            "A back chamber with a small sealed urn",
            "Chains crossing the ceiling in decorative pattern"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Questions asked aloud return as layered echo-answers",
            "A small flame leaps from an urn and forms a roaming shadow",
            "Dust rings swirl where footsteps pass",
            "An old script rearranges to form a reply"
        ],
        "camera": "Slowly circling tracking with echo-synced cuts to responses",
        "accents": [
            "cold brazier rim-lights and basalt sheen",
            "thin volumetric shafts to visualize echo waves"
        ],
        "mood": "inquiring dread",
        "lighting": "low moonlit accents with isolated warm ember points",
        "style": "archaic echo theater"
    },
    {
        "subGenre": "Ancient Tombs",
        "scene": "A midday reliquary with trade goods laid for distant rulers (day)",
        "sceneVariants": [
            "Brass bowls of exotic spices arranged ceremonially",
            "Beaded curtains leading to display tables",
            "Maps rolled beside small carved boats",
            "A skylight illuminating a golden amulet",
            "A bench of messengers' placards"
        ],
        "actions": [
            "Spice dust drifts in a sunbeam and forms a map",
            "A placard unfurls to show a route that wasn't there",
            "A messenger statue tips and reveals a hidden compartment",
            "An amulet emits a warm pulse when touched"
        ],
        "camera": "Slow lateral sweep with intimate insert zooms on traded goods",
        "accents": [
            "warm metal speculars and grain on woven goods",
            "sunlit dust caustics on beads"
        ],
        "mood": "mercantile awe",
        "lighting": "crisp midday warmth with focused skylight",
        "style": "silk-road reliquary"
    }
]