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Art style: Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting. A vertically framed 9:16 documentary opening scene set inside a dark ancient interior chamber of packed earth and rough stone, simple and believable rather than grand, with a single primitive flame glowing from a shallow handmade vessel near the centre of the frame. The setting should feel early human, sparse, intimate and real: uneven walls darkened by soot, a low niche carved into stone, scattered natural fibres, a rough wooden stool, a shallow bowl made from clay or stone, and faint traces of smoke staining the ceiling above. Composition is a medium-wide establishing shot from a slightly low angle, designed for a mobile vertical frame, with the small flame positioned in the lower-middle third and deep darkness surrounding it so the eye is drawn immediately to the source of light. The camera perspective should create a gentle sense of discovery, as if entering an ancient room and noticing the fragile first attempt at contained light. Lighting is entirely motivated by the primitive flame, warm amber and soft orange with subtle falloff into heavy shadow, creating delicate gradients across rough stone and earth. The light should feel soft but alive, flickering naturally, casting moving shadows across the walls and making the room seem both protective and mysterious. Mood and atmosphere are warm, ancient, mysterious and quietly emotional, suggesting the beginning of a long human story rather than danger or spectacle. No horror feeling, no fantasy exaggeration. There are no visible modern objects. Character action is minimal and implied rather than explicit: the focus is on the small contained flame itself and the evidence of human presence nearby, as if someone has just set it down. Dominant colours are warm amber, muted brown, charcoal grey, soft ochre and neutral earth tones. Textures and materials are essential: gritty packed soil, rough stone with irregular edges, soot-blackened surfaces, coarse dried plant fibres, weathered wood, a matte clay or carved stone vessel, and a small pool of rendered natural fuel feeding the wick. Depth and layers should be clearly separated: in the foreground, a blurred edge of rough floor with scattered fibres and a tiny ash fragment; in the midground, the primitive light vessel and immediate circle of illumination; in the background, shadowy wall recesses, smoke stains and dim outlines of basic domestic objects disappearing into darkness. Weather and particles include faint suspended smoke near the flame, tiny drifting dust motes catching the warm light, and the slightest haze in the air. Micro-details are important: a blackened wick tip, melted residue gathering unevenly in the vessel, fine cracks in the clay, subtle heat shimmer above the flame, soot smudges on nearby stone, and the delicate reflected glow on a rough wooden edge. The whole frame must feel elegant, simple, historical and grounded in realistic documentary imagery. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Cinematic / Realistic / Vintage / Documentary / Warm lighting" idiom, not in any other medium.