Art style: Cinematic Neo-Noir.
A candlelit war-room with a large table bearing a map weighted by daggers and coins. Over-the-shoulder shot behind the gaunt strategist as he places a single chess-like marker on the map, his gaze hidden, other markers scattered as decoys. Warm low candlelight raking across the parchment, faces of shadowy advisors blurred in the background. Mood: conspiratorial, strategic, secretive. Palette of aged parchment tan, candle-amber, and deep shadow.
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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.
