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Create a premium cinematic dark fantasy illustration in a strict vertical 9:16 composition. A vast ancient gothic city stands on a monumental stone plaza during a freezing winter morning. The city appears normal at first: towering gothic buildings, narrow streets, market stalls, bridges, towers, statues and thousands of tiny inhabitants moving through their daily lives. But beneath the enormous central plaza lies a colossal ancient dragon completely trapped inside a gigantic underground glacier. The dragon's enormous body is visible through translucent blue-black ice beneath the cracked stone surface. Its head is larger than several buildings combined, its enormous horns disappear beneath the foundations of the city, and its folded wings extend beneath entire districts. Centuries ago the inhabitants unknowingly built their civilization directly on top of the sleeping frozen creature, using its body as the foundation of the city. The crucial change is happening now: warm vapor is rising through a fresh crack in the central square for the first time in centuries. Snow around the crack is melting. Tiny streams of water flow between the ancient paving stones. People gather around it in confusion while a few frightened guards try to keep everyone away. A massive stone statue in the square depicts a dragon, suggesting the city's founders once knew what was beneath them but later forgot. One ancient underground doorway has just opened beneath the plaza, revealing enormous frozen scales below. Through the ice, one gigantic golden eye remains closed. Deep beneath the city, a faint pulse of warmth illuminates the dragon's chest, subtly suggesting that its heart has begun beating again. Secondary details: an old blacksmith notices that his forge suddenly burns without fuel; birds gather on warm patches of melting snow; frozen vines begin growing again; a tiny child presses a hand against the ice and feels the dragon's heartbeat; several old buildings develop new cracks as the creature moves slightly beneath them. The city must feel enormous compared with ordinary inhabitants but insignificant compared with the buried dragon. The final visual impression should be that an entire civilization has accidentally built itself on top of something alive. Premium cinematic dark fantasy, gothic realism, AAA game concept art, hyper-detailed CGI, monumental environmental storytelling, realistic ice, stone, scales, snow, architecture and atmospheric vapor, dramatic cold morning light, volumetric fog, deep blue-black shadows, muted gray, icy blue, charcoal and subtle warm amber palette, powerful vertical composition, enormous scale contrast, suspenseful atmosphere, mysterious ancient mythology, visually spectacular and highly shareable. Add a small elegant signature reading "Whitezzz" in the bottom-right corner, clearly visible but subtle, integrated naturally without covering important elements. No blood, no gore, no skeletons, no glowing mushrooms, no modern objects, no logos, no text other than the signature, no watermark, no duplicated dragon anatomy, no extra wings, no malformed limbs, no generic dragon design, no visual clutter.