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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. SCENE 05 — THE GATES OF THE ACADEMY. Premium photorealistic live-action dark fantasy television series, cinematic vertical 9:16. Use the approved character reference of Naeyra Vayne and the approved main entrance gates of the Academy of the Ashen Oath. Preserve the exact architectural design of the gates and Naeyra's established appearance. SETTING: The monumental main entrance of an ancient Gothic dragon-rider academy in the floating city of Aster. Enormous heavy gray stone-and-iron double doors decorated with carved dragon motifs, weathered Gothic arches, towering stone walls, dark academy banners and restrained wall-mounted torches. The two enormous gate doors are completely CLOSED at the beginning, with a clearly visible central seam and realistic hinges. There is a solid stone path leading directly toward the entrance. CHARACTER: Naeyra Vayne, 21 years old, with long dark chestnut wavy hair, gray-green eyes and her established fitted dark academy outfit. Preserve her exact facial identity, clothing and natural proportions from the approved portrait. Naeyra stands several steps away from the closed gates, facing the entrance. Her body is shown from a natural rear three-quarter angle, so we see her silhouette, part of her facial profile and the enormous gates ahead. Her posture is upright and quietly determined. She appears small compared with the intimidating scale of the entrance. Her hands are empty. She is not holding Sela's letter or any other object. COMPOSITION: Cinematic medium-wide establishing shot from a slightly low camera position, behind and to the side of Naeyra. She occupies the lower foreground while the imposing closed double doors dominate the center and upper frame. Keep the full central doorway visible and sufficient physical space for the doors to open inward during video animation. LIGHTING: Cool gray overcast morning daylight, consistent with the previous airship scenes. Soft atmospheric haze, realistic shadows, dark weathered stone, restrained warm torch accents. MOOD: Anticipation, ancient authority, mystery and a sense of crossing into a dangerous new world. Naeyra is apprehensive but brave. Natural restrained acting, no theatrical posing. High-budget cinematic realism, authentic Gothic architecture, realistic stone textures, coherent perspective, subtle film grain, sophisticated dark fantasy color grading. AVOID: Open gates, additional characters, guards, dragons, crowds, weapons, magical portals, glowing symbols, changed facial identity, incorrect costume, warped architecture, duplicated doors, extra limbs, cartoon aesthetics, illustration, text or watermark. This image is the first frame of a continuous shot in which the gates will slowly open and Naeyra will enter the academy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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): - Готические ворота с драконами (location): Величественные каменные ворота в готическом стиле, украшенные резьбой в виде драконов и руническими символами, освещенные факелами в туманной атмосфере.