THE LADY OF THE STAR-IRON: COVER DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS • Composition Style: Cinematic, dark epic fantasy, high contrast, gritty texture. Moody and atmospheric like a cinematic movie poster. • Foreground (Center): A waist-up view of LARISSA, a fierce young noblewoman with long, wild golden hair flying in the wind. She wears rugged, dark leather riding armor caked in grey volcanic ash. Over her sternum, an 8 pointed star-shaped meteoric shard emits a vivid, pulsing sub-zero silver-blue glow, casting sharp lights up her jawline. Her expression is one of unyielding defiance (the "Ice Queen"). • Midground (Flanks): Standing slightly behind her shoulders on either side are her two companions. On one side stands MICHAEL, a young, pale scholar in a torn dark wool coat, holding a tightly rolled parchment map. On the other side stands ZINTAR, a tall, dangerous desert warrior, dark leather armor, and a hand resting loosely on the pommel of his curved scimitar. • Background: A massive, jagged mountain pass under a bruised, violet-red midnight sky. A colossal full moon is partially choked by black smoke and volcanic dust. • The Threat: Flying low over the jagged stone peaks, sweeping directly toward the foreground, is a massive, terrifying DRAGON made of shifting violet fire and monolithic obsidian scales, its golden eyes glowing like molten wells. • Color Palette: Deep charcoal greys, midnight blues, bruised purples, with high-contrast pops of incandescent violet fire and sub-zero Voir plus