YouTube thumbnail, 16:9, cinematic photoreal grim north. A broad, calm ice-warden (Torv) standing beside a small driftwood fire on black ice, his RIGHT SLEEVE soaked dark and frozen to salt-rime all the way to the SHOULDER, face half-lit by weak amber firelight showing cold guilt, breath fogging faintly. Behind him his SHADOW bows across the ice a half-beat out of step, angled wrong, dragging. Near-monochrome grey, only the small fire warm. Grim sunless fjord, desolate huts on stilts blurred behind. Shallow depth of field, high contrast, one emotion: menace masked as duty. HUGE bold white hook text: 'THE ONE WHO KEEPS THE DEAD' top, 'IS THE ROT' bottom, heavy distressed font. Small text corner: 'THE LAST FIRE · EP 3'. High CTR.
