Art style: Ghibli / Anime-inspired.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright, figure centered in a candle-lit Academy library with tall bookshelves and arched windows framing the sides. Professor Vale is an elderly male elf, tall and slender with a slight stoop, long pointed ears and a lined, angular face with high cheekbones, pale fair skin, sharp pale-silver eyes behind thin wire-rimmed oval spectacles. His long silver-white hair is swept back and tied at the nape, with a neat short beard. He wears layered scholarly robes in deep teal and muted grey, trimmed with faded gold embroidery, a long buttoned waistcoat, a high collar, and a worn leather satchel of scrolls at his hip. Soft fingerless gloves; flat dark leather shoes on his feet. His expression is stern yet quietly worried, one hand resting protectively on a thick open tome.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image in the following art style:
Soft hand-drawn anime illustration, delicate linework, painterly backgrounds, airy natural light, gentle colors, peaceful cinematic storytelling atmosphere.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
