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Art style: photorealistic cinematic live-action, Netflix Witcher-style dark fantasy, gritty realism, natural volumetric lighting, fog and haze, shallow depth of field, film grain, desaturated moody color grade. Dynamic cinematic medium shot of an intense one-on-one sword-and-shield duel atop the rain-slicked parapet of a colossal black granite fortress wall at cold blue-grey dawn. Two warriors squared off on wet black stone between crenellations, fog drifting behind them. LEFT — OBSIDIAN LEGION SOLDIER (full detailed canon): Black rough leather base armor with dark iron plate inserts on chest, shoulders and forearms, heavy iron buckles and rivets, dark cloth wrappings on shins. Short frayed dark-grey hooded cloak, hood up. Full-face hammered matte black iron combat mask — three horizontal parallel eye-slits, five small circular breathing holes on each cheek, dented and rust-flecked, no shine. Everything filthy with mud, ash and old grime, field-repaired with mismatched leather patches. WEAPON: short broad-bladed iron sword, ~50cm, simple crossguard bent from parrying, leather grip rewrapped in uneven layers, nicked edge. SHIELD: teardrop wooden shield with dark iron rim, face bearing the ancient LEGION RUNE — a tall narrow blood-red symbol (#6B0000, dried-blood tone) roughly hand-painted in ash-white outline, edges uneven, worn and weathered. RIGHT — IMPERIAL SOLDIER (full detailed canon): Rusted dark iron plate over dirty chainmail, chainmail visible at neck, armpits and inner elbows. Dirty faded blue-grey torn cloth at collar, upper arms and lower torso. On the breastplate the IMPERIAL BLACK SUN emblem — a solid center circle with exactly 12 clockwise-curving rays, cold steel blue-grey enamel (#4A6B8A), the only maintained clean element amid the rust. Iron war helmet with grid visor: 5-6 vertical iron bars, eyes clearly visible through the cage, one bar bent from impact, rust at the weld points — a pale hollow face caged behind iron. WEAPON: longsword ~90cm, dark iron blade NOT polished, rust spots mid-blade, simple iron crossguard one arm bent, leather grip unwinding at the dented pommel. SHIELD: large rectangular shield, dark iron rim dented all around, dark grey painted face with the cold blue Black Sun at center, paint chipped at the edges but symbol maintained. Both mid-combat, bodies coiled, boots planted on wet black granite, sparks at the point of contact. Behind: crenellations, drifting volumetric fog, dim silhouettes of other fighters, the fortress falling away into haze. Cold blue-grey dawn 5-6 AM after rain, wet black stone, desaturated teal-grey moody grade, shallow depth of field, film grain, handheld. Photorealistic cinematic dark fantasy, Netflix Witcher-style, gritty realism. Negative: no blood, no gore, no wounds, no dismemberment; no bare face on the Legion soldier (fully masked), no clean or polished shiny armor, no fantasy knight plate, no bright colors, no arrows in flight, no cartoonish look. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "photorealistic cinematic live-action, Netflix Witcher-style dark fantasy, gritty realism, natural volumetric lighting, fog and haze, shallow depth of field, film grain, desaturated moody color grade" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "photorealistic cinematic live-action, Netflix Witcher-style dark fantasy, gritty realism, natural volumetric lighting, fog and haze, shallow depth of field, film grain, desaturated moody color grade". 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 "photorealistic cinematic live-action, Netflix Witcher-style dark fantasy, gritty realism, natural volumetric lighting, fog and haze, shallow depth of field, film grain, desaturated moody color grade" idiom, not in any other medium.