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Painting of a gaunt, ageless figure with translucent greenish skin, long white hair, and skeletal fingers stands in a cavern of black crystal, his emaciated body draped in tattered crimson robes. He cradles a large, ornate **enchanted egg**—its shell mottled with gold, obsidian, and blood-red veins—close to his chest. The egg pulses faintly, revealing within it the tiny, sleeping form of Koschei’s true soul: a golden bird perched on a needle inside a chest inside a duck inside the egg. Behind him, three skeletal guardians kneel in shadow, their ribcages filled with glowing blue fireflies. In the background, jagged stalactites drip molten amber light onto cracked stone floors. Lighting is dramatic chiaroscuro: cool green highlights on Koschei’s face and hands; warm golden glow radiates from the egg, casting elongated shadows across the cavern walls. Palette: deep black, emerald green, blood-red, and gold. Sinister, ritualistic, deeply symbolic.