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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. On a wind-scoured ice platform beneath the shadow of the Frozen Throne, the frame captures a charged face-off between Arthas and Illidan just before their first clash. The setting is a narrow, elevated glacial shelf bordered by fractured ice ledges and black abyssal drops, with monumental ice buttresses and frozen stairways disappearing upward behind them. Compose this first frame as a split-tension medium shot with a slight Dutch angle in vertical 9:16 format, placing Arthas on one side and Illidan on the other, their faces and weapons dominating the composition while the storm and throne architecture remain visible behind them. The camera should feel close enough to read lethal intent but wide enough to preserve environmental scale. The lighting is sharply divided: an icy blue glow reflects into Arthas’s eyes and armor from the frozen ground and sky, while a sinister green fire pulses across Illidan’s blindfold, blades, and wing edges. The mood is confrontational, electric, and ceremonial, like the final breath before steel meets steel. Arthas is lifting his sword into guard with silent resolve, expression rigid and unreadable; Illidan leans forward with predatory confidence, jaw tense, delivering his warning as if challenging fate. The color palette should remain restricted to ice blue, cyan-white, charcoal, black shadow, and vivid fel green. Surface details must include glazed ice with stress fractures beneath their feet, frozen rime along stone edges, battle-scored metal, and thin crystalline frost built up on every exposed hard surface. Separate the layers clearly: foreground with spinning snow ribbons and sharp ice shards near the lens; midground with the two combatants and their crossed lines of motion; background with ice spires, storm clouds, and a faint upward path to the throne. Weather effects should include blizzard streaks moving laterally, ice particles whipping around their bodies, and small gust vortices triggered by wing and blade motion. Add micro-details such as condensed breath, vibrating loose frost falling from raised weapons, tiny chips around boot pressure points, green reflections trembling across the ice beneath Illidan, and the subtle tremor of suspended snow as if the air itself is charged. The image must communicate that the duel has already begun emotionally before the first strike physically lands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.