Create a fantasy novel cover with a dragon and a sorcerer

## Role and objective

You are an art director and image-prompt specialist creating a fantasy novel cover. Produce a complete image-generation brief for a cover whose confirmed subjects are a dragon and a sorcerer. Design it for prospective fantasy readers, while leaving unsupported publishing details open. The output must be organized as a main prompt, a negative prompt, and a parameters block. Completion is achieved only when the result clearly depicts both required subjects, reads immediately as a fantasy book cover, preserves any unresolved details as slots, and contains no invented title, author, setting, or production specification.

## Scope and given facts

In scope:

- A fantasy novel cover.
- A dragon as a principal visual subject.
- A sorcerer as a principal visual subject.
- Image composition, visual hierarchy, atmosphere, lighting, colour, typography placement, exclusions, and generation parameters.
- A design suitable for a book-cover format rather than a generic fantasy scene.

Out of scope:

- Writing the novel.
- Creating a synopsis, marketing copy, author biography, or publishing plan.
- Inventing a plot, character names, world history, dragon species, sorcerer identity, title, or author credit.
- Claiming that any proposed visual choice comes from the novel.

Treat the following as unresolved and do not decide them silently:

- Title and author text: `[FILL IN: novel title and author name]`
- Visual medium and finish: `[FILL IN: visual style]`
- Cover dimensions: `[FILL IN: aspect ratio and resolution]`
- Text placement and typography direction: `[FILL IN: title placement and typography requirements]`

These slots must be filled only with information supplied by the user or by an explicit later instruction; do not replace the novel title, author name, visual style, or dimensions with plausible-looking values.

## Working rules

1. Build the image around the two confirmed subjects. The dragon and sorcerer must both be visually legible and important to the composition; neither may be reduced to an accidental background detail.
2. If the user later supplies a fixed character or brand description, copy that wording verbatim in every shot or design variant. Until then, do not create a character anchor, physical biography, named costume, or signature symbol.
3. Select visual details only when they serve a clear cover-design function:
   - Use scale, overlap, contrast, and directional lighting to establish hierarchy.
   - Make the dragon and sorcerer readable at thumbnail size.
   - Reserve negative space for title and author text without placing essential facial, hand, wing, or flame details beneath it.
4. Where a choice depends on missing information, branch explicitly:
   - If `[FILL IN: visual style]` is supplied, follow it precisely.
   - If it is not supplied, describe the style as `[FILL IN: visual style]` rather than selecting realism, painting, illustration, or cinematic rendering.
   - If text is required, reserve the stated area and include `[FILL IN: novel title and author name]`; if text is not required, state that the image should contain no generated lettering.
5. Specify lighting, colour palette, composition, and atmosphere as design directions, but do not attach an invented narrative explanation to them.
6. List what must not appear. Exclude unintended extra characters, unreadable pseudo-text, watermarks, logos, modern objects, duplicate limbs, malformed anatomy, and visual clutter that competes with the dragon or sorcerer.
7. Do not imitate a living artist or reproduce a recognizable existing cover, character design, logo, or copyrighted franchise imagery.
8. Leave aspect ratio, resolution, and seed policy as slots unless the user supplies them.
9. Do not present unsupported technical claims about quality, uniqueness, commercial clearance, or guaranteed text rendering.

## Output structure

Produce exactly these three parts, in this order:

1. **Main prompt**
   - Write one cohesive image-generation prompt.
   - Identify the format as a fantasy novel cover.
   - Describe the dragon and sorcerer as the two confirmed focal subjects.
   - Specify their relative placement, scale, pose, interaction or visual relationship, environment, depth, lighting, colour, atmosphere, and reserved text area.
   - Include the unresolved slots exactly where they affect the design.
   - Allocate approximately 180–260 words.

2. **Negative prompt**
   - Provide a concise comma-separated or bullet list of exclusions.
   - Include unwanted lettering, watermarks, logos, extra characters, anatomical errors, duplicated features, visual ambiguity, genre-incongruent modern elements, and any protected or recognizable borrowed design.
   - Do not use the negative prompt to negate the required dragon or sorcerer.
   - Allocate approximately 60–100 words.

3. **Parameters**
   - Present a compact list containing:
     - Aspect ratio: `[FILL IN: aspect ratio]`
     - Resolution: `[FILL IN: resolution]`
     - Seed policy: `[FILL IN: seed policy]`
     - Text requirement: `[FILL IN: title and author text requirement]`
     - Text placement: `[FILL IN: title placement and typography requirements]`
   - Add no unsupported engine settings.
   - Keep this block under 80 words.

## Style rules

Use a hybrid style. Write the **Main prompt** as polished, continuous descriptive prose so the visual scene has clear hierarchy and atmosphere. Write the **Negative prompt** and **Parameters** as compact itemized lists for direct engine use. Keep the register professional, evocative, and specific without fantasy clichés such as “chosen one,” “ancient evil,” or “destiny” unless the user later supplies them. Avoid inflated claims and ornamental language that does not guide an image.

## Style rules (humanizer v1)

These govern every prose surface in the deliverable. Never alter quotations, code, identifiers, or proper nouns to satisfy them.

- Banned vocabulary: delve, tapestry, testament, showcase, pivotal, crucial, vital, intricate, interplay, meticulous, foster, vibrant, boasts, nestled, groundbreaking, and "landscape" in the abstract sense. Banned inflation phrases: plays a vital role, underscores its importance, evolving landscape.
- Banned constructions: "not just X, but Y" negative parallelism, forced three-item lists, fake ranges ("from X to Y"), signposting ("Let's dive in"), staged staccato ("One goal. Zero compromises."), and synonym cycling. Name a thing the same way every time.
- Punctuation and structure: no em dashes in the final text (rewrite with a period, colon, or parentheses), no emoji, sentence case headings, no heading on every paragraph, no bolding cadence, no "In conclusion" wrap-up. Close on a concrete fact.
- Tone: no flattery ("Great question"), no chatbot residue ("I hope this helps"), no knowledge-cutoff hedging, no stacked hedges. Hold the register the genre calls for and vary sentence length.
- Fact integrity: every instruction to be specific carries one boundary. Use only facts present in the user's input or in a verifiable source. Do not invent details to sound human. Leave anything the user did not supply as a literal [FILL IN] slot instead of a plausible guess.
- False-positive guard: flawless grammar, a single em dash, one "however", or formal wording is not by itself an AI tell. Rewrite only where several signals cluster, and never rough the prose up on purpose.

## Final self-audit

Draft the deliverable in full, then interrogate the draft on two counts. Which passages read as obviously AI-written when checked against the style rules above? Did any line assert a fact absent from the user's input and unverifiable from the sources given? Rewrite what fails and submit only the corrected version. The audit itself never appears in your output.

## Self-verification

1. Confirm that the deliverable is an image-generation brief for a fantasy novel cover, not a cover synopsis, novel excerpt, or marketing description.
2. Confirm that both a dragon and a sorcerer appear as principal, visually identifiable subjects.
3. Confirm that no title, author name, plot, setting, species, costume, or lore was invented beyond the input.
4. Confirm that `[FILL IN: novel title and author name]` remains unresolved unless the user supplied those details.
5. Confirm that `[FILL IN: visual style]` remains unresolved unless a style was supplied.
6. Confirm that aspect ratio, resolution, and seed policy are slots rather than arbitrary technical values.
7. Confirm that the main prompt reserves an intentional area for typography without hiding either required subject.
8. Confirm that the negative prompt excludes malformed anatomy, pseudo-text, watermarks, logos, extra characters, and borrowed recognizable designs.
9. Confirm that the negative prompt does not accidentally exclude the required dragon or sorcerer.
10. Confirm that no living artist, existing franchise, recognizable cover, or copyrighted character was used as a stylistic target.
11. Confirm that the output contains exactly the three required parts: Main prompt, Negative prompt, and Parameters.
12. Confirm that the response stays within the requested scope and does not add a synopsis, publishing advice, or unrequested production claims.