# Chains of Asmodeus — Party in Avernus Campaign-wide main-page header showing all eight player characters in Avernus, with anonymous lost souls and the shadow of Asmodeus. The portrait is iconic rather than a dated snapshot, so Damon Charles appears with the complete campaign roster despite his current missing status. ![[Assets/Headers/Chains of Asmodeus — Party in Avernus.png]] ## Prompt ```text PURPOSE AND FORMAT Wide 16:9 cinematic main-page hero/header for a dark-fantasy D&D campaign. Polished realistic painterly fantasy art, composed to survive a shallow website-header crop. No text, letters, logos, signatures, or watermarks. CELESTE REFERENCE Use Aaron's supplied Celeste image as the identity and baseline-design reference for Celeste only: recognizable blonde human face, long windblown blonde hair, fitted blackened plate and gauntlets, powerful athletic build, brown equine body, blonde tail, and leather saddle. Do not copy its background or use it for any other character. SETTING AND STORY The party stands on cracked black basalt in Avernus beneath red storm clouds, drifting ash, iron citadels, lava fissures, and infernal chains. Across the sky spreads the colossal shadow of Asmodeus: an immense crowned or horned humanoid silhouette made only of darkness, with no readable face and no revealed physical design. Several sought souls float behind the party as deliberately indistinct pale-gold and blue-white apparitions, bound by thin infernal chains and half-seen inside faint phylactery-like crystals. They are symbolic, anonymous, translucent, soft-focus, and featureless, with no stable species, age, face, clothing, or identity. CANON-LOCKED FOREGROUND PARTY — EXACTLY EIGHT - Celeste Valentin: true centaur, one continuous body; broad central anchor. Match the supplied reference. Black plate fitted across torso and equine barrel, leather saddle, empty raised fists; no manufactured weapons, horns, or wings. - Lilly Pallywally: very small female deep gnome seated correctly in Celeste's saddle, practical clothes, holding one radiant full javelin named Longinus—never a sword or staff. - Unit-NULL: androgynous warforged living construct with integrated metal-and-wood armor, constructed face, eye-lights, no hair or flesh; shield and massive serrated black crab-claw blade with iridescent inner glow. - Dr. Herbert Who: male Owlin transmutation wizard with feathered owl head, facial disk, beak, large eyes, and visible wings; scholar's clothes, no armor, one staff and spellbook, hovering slightly. - Casanova Frankenstein: very small male kobold alchemist-cook with scaled snout, tail, small horns, clothes and goggles, no armor; seated beside one cookpot and tiny fire, holding one ladle and one potion bottle, no weapon. - Ara-Ara Avannatto: female unbearded satyr Life cleric with ram horns and goat legs; chain mail, shield, healer's staff, dark organic blood-formed mace, diary and pan flute. - Tahara Rahma: male dhampir Grave cleric with masculine adult presentation; pale but alive, breastplate, shield, trench coat, rapier at hip, ornate gauntlets, amulet, pearl necklace, and glowing infernal map. - Damon Charles: towering male goliath Devotion paladin, tallest humanoid silhouette; chain mail, shield, longsword, former-soldier posture, and subtle Bahamut holy symbol; no plate armor. COMPOSITION AND LIGHT Heroic layered ensemble, not a stiff lineup. Celeste is central with Lilly mounted. Damon and Unit-NULL brace the flanks. Tahara and Ara-Ara hold the spiritual middle distance. Herbert hovers behind with wings readable. Casanova sits low at the front with his cookfire. All eight heroes are solid and sharp; the chained souls are translucent and soft. Smoldering crimson and ember-orange light, cold soul glow, subtle gold divine highlights, deep charcoal shadows. CONTINUITY Exactly eight solid foreground party members, each present once: centaur, deep gnome, warforged, Owlin, kobold, satyr, dhampir, and goliath. Keep each face and body plan legible and separate. Background spirits remain anonymous and cannot be mistaken for party members. AVOID Generic all-human party; duplicate or fused heroes; human riding a separate horse; horned or winged Celeste; weapons on Celeste; human-sized Lilly or Casanova; sword replacing Lilly's javelin; human in feather cloak replacing Herbert; flesh face or hair on Unit-NULL; bearded or male Ara-Ara; female Tahara; plate on Damon, Lilly, Casanova, or Herbert; identifiable lost-soul faces; detailed physical Asmodeus portrait; text or watermark. ``` ## Continuity Notes - This is a campaign-wide ensemble, not a current-scene roster. - The anonymous souls communicate the campaign's rescue objective without inventing likenesses for visually undefined characters. - Asmodeus is represented only by shadow because the campaign has not established a specific physical design.