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A formidable lich dominates the frame in a hyper-realistic dark fantasy cinematic render, its skeletal visage marked by desiccated skin stretched over sharp bone and hollow eye sockets burning with intense spectral violet fire. The undead mage hovers in mid-air, clad in rotting ceremonial velvet robes that billow in a stagnant wind, clutching an ornate staff pulsing with necrotic purple energy. The setting is a desolate, mist-shrouded interpretation of Quedlinburg; crumbling half-timbered houses with sagging red-tiled roofs line the cobblestone streets below, leading up to a decaying Romanesque castle perched precariously on a sandstone cliff in the background. The lighting is low-key and moody, defined by the harsh, electric purple rim light from the lich’s magic casting long, jagged shadows across the ancient timber architecture, rendered with subsurface scattering and volumetric fog for immense atmospheric depth.