Art style: Dark Gothic Fantasy.
A top-down view of a marble chessboard with intricate wood inlay. The white pieces are carved from ivory and arranged in a dense, defensive cluster. The black pieces are scattered across the opposite side. Soft, directional light from a high window highlights the grain of the wood. Deep mahogany, cream, and shadow-black tones.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Dark Gothic Fantasy" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Dark Gothic Fantasy". 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 "Dark Gothic Fantasy" idiom, not in any other medium.
