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Art style: Cinematic Realistic. On the shattered ice near the final approach to the Frozen Throne, the decisive moment freezes in a terrible instant of defeat. The setting is a fractured glacial platform split by battle scars, with jagged cracks radiating outward, scattered weapon marks, churned snow, and the immense frozen staircase rising behind Arthas toward the throne above. Compose the first frame as a dramatic close-up to medium-close shot in vertical 9:16, focused on the exact instant Frostmourne has pierced Illidan’s torso. Arthas should dominate one side of the frame in controlled forward momentum, while Illidan collapses backward in shock and fading resistance, his dropped war blades beginning to slip from his hands toward the snow below. The camera angle should be slightly low, making the strike feel final and monumental while preserving the background ascent. Lighting remains in the established cold blue stormlight, but now with reduced green intensity, as if fel fire is dimming and life is draining from the scene. The mood is tragic, solemn, and crushingly inevitable. The dominant colors must be pale blue, steel gray, white snow, black shadow, and dying green glimmers only. Textures should emphasize scraped ice, powdered snow disturbed by combat, scored metal edges, and fractures glowing faintly beneath thin frost. Layer the image carefully: foreground with one of the falling blades, kicked snow, and suspended ice dust; midground with the impalement and both characters’ expressions; background with blurred ice stairs, swirling blizzard, and distant throne silhouette. Weather effects should include a thinning but persistent snowfall, suspended crystals around the impact, and a faint mist of cold air from heavy breaths. Add micro-details such as trembling fingers losing grip, a single blade edge catching blue light as it falls, tiny cracks widening under Arthas’s planted boot, frost collecting instantly along the sword wound, and green embers extinguishing into smoke-like vapor. The image must communicate that the duel’s physical climax is also an emotional collapse—victory without joy, defeat without surrender. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.