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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. A tight close-up of the dying King's face against white silk pillows. His eyes are wide with a sudden, desperate intensity, and his lips are parted as he struggles to speak. The lighting is dramatic, casting deep shadows in the hollows of his cheeks. The atmosphere is heavy with the weight of a final, terrifying secret. The color palette is muted, with pale skin tones against dark shadows. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Realistic". 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" idiom, not in any other medium. Reference images context (match the visual style and elements from these): - Castle courtyard stonework (general): A detailed, isolated view of a medieval castle courtyard at night with wet grey stone paving, weathered archways/columns in the distance, and large rain-slick stone textures; no people or creatures. Include a broad vertical composition element like battlement edges or courtyard walls, with realistic water streaks on stone and subtle mist pooling near the ground. Clean, uncluttered background with shallow depth of field; cinematic realism; highly detailed; square format. - Black funeral banners (general): Isolated close view of long medieval black funeral banners hanging from stone battlements, fabric whipping violently in heavy rain; include visible seams, texture, and water streaming down the cloth. Background should be clean grey stone with soft rain and distant architectural edges only, no people. Cinematic realistic fabric detail; sharp folds and droplets; square format. - Candle with flame (general): A single medieval candle on a stone or wooden surface with a visible small orange flame, warm glow casting realistic highlights on nearby materials; include a short pool of melted wax and slight soot on the wick. Background kept clean and neutral (dark gradient) with no people, no text. Capture flicker-ready flame shape and precise wax texture; cinematic realistic; highly detailed; square format. - Ancient dragon-crest tome (general): An isolated heavy book/tome opened on a desk or bed surface, featuring a silver-embossed dragon crest on its cover (or the cover visible at the edge of frame). Show realistic leather texture, engraved metal crest with subtle specular highlights, and aged edges. Background should be a clean dark interior blur (no people), with dust particles suggested but no faces. Highly detailed materials; cinematic realism; square format. - Wizard library stacks (general): An isolated overhead/angled view of a dusty ancient library desk area with scattered parchment sheets and leather-bound books, including old wooden shelves and stacked volumes in the background (no people). Emphasize cluttered arrangement of papers, worn book spines, and drifting dust motes in sunbeam-like warm light. Clean composition with no characters; cinematic realistic detail; square format.