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Art style: Gritty dark comic illustration. An extreme close-up of General von Clausewitz's face. He is wearing his dark military cap, which casts a heavy shadow over his eyes. His eyes are glowing with a bright, intense yellow light, piercing through the darkness. His thick white mustache is detailed with individual coarse hairs. The skin on his face is wrinkled and leathery. Behind him, the background is a swirling vortex of deep red smoke and shadow. The lighting is dramatic, with a strong bottom-light that emphasizes his features and the glow of his eyes. The composition is centered and confrontational. Textures include the wool of his cap, the skin of his face, and the ethereal smoke. The mood is one of dark epiphany and sinister power. The contrast between the black shadows and the glowing yellow eyes is extreme. His expression is one of cold, calculated resolve. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Gritty dark comic illustration" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Gritty dark comic illustration". 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 "Gritty dark comic illustration" idiom, not in any other medium. Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly): - General von Clausewitz: An elderly military man with a sharp, weathered face and a prominent, thick white handlebar mustache. He wears a dark, heavy Prussian military overcoat with high collars and a traditional peaked officer's cap. His eyes are deep-set and intense, occasionally glowing with a faint yellow light. He stands with a rigid, upright posture, often holding a dark wooden cane or a sheathed sword. The background is consistently dramatic, featuring high-contrast red and black tones with smoke and architectural ruins.