Maybe they were brought here by it too and can't leave, and only tell us that one of the gods that still sleep might be able to bring us back because they are afraid of what will happen if we don't think that there is a hope to leave of our own choosing.

[He doesn't sound particularly bothered by that. Because he isn't. He's with family here so it is nice, family that he wouldn't have back home, and if this place is like the others no time passes back home, so he's not missing anything there.]