Art style: Cinematic Neo-Noir.
A sweeping wide shot of the Byzantine rout: soldiers fleeing across the river shallows, some stumbling and drowning, Bulgar horsemen pursuing relentlessly behind them under a dramatic storm-streaked sky. Discarded shields and standards litter the muddy banks. The camera pulls back to show the scale of the collapse along the Danube. Cold light with dramatic cloud breaks. Mood of total, sweeping defeat. Palette of gray water, blood-tinged mud, tarnished gold, and bruised sky.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Cinematic Neo-Noir" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Neo-Noir". 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 Neo-Noir" idiom, not in any other medium.
