# The Party — Group Portrait Prompt Canon-locked image prompt built per `AI-Skills/coa-maintain-visual-canon`. Depicts the seven active members as of the end of the 2026-07-29 session. Damon Charles is excluded — missing since 2026-07-01. Celeste is in centaur baseline (polymorph ended). Spoiler-safe: no reference to the mace's origin or to any unrevealed connection between items. Tahara Rahma's male identity and he/him pronouns were explicitly corrected and locked on 2026-08-04. Celeste's fists-and-hooves-only combat style and Casanova's alchemist-cook setup were explicitly corrected and locked on 2026-08-04. ![[The Party — Group Portrait.png]] ## Prompt ```text PURPOSE AND FORMAT Group portrait / party lineup handout for a dark-fantasy D&D campaign set in the Nine Hells. Wide landscape, 16:9. Painterly digital illustration, dramatic chiaroscuro, grim heroic tone. Exactly seven figures. No text, no letters, no logos, no watermarks anywhere in the image. CANON-LOCKED SUBJECTS (seven, all distinct body plans) - Celeste Valentin: CENTAUR — a human-like torso joined at the waist to a full four-legged equine body. She is the widest, most massive silhouette in the group. Plate armor custom-fitted across BOTH the humanoid torso and the equine barrel. An ornate riding saddle is strapped to her equine back. Powerful, athletic, built like a fortress. Standing squarely on four hooves with both hands empty and visible. She uses ONLY her fists and hooves as weapons. No handaxes, spears, javelins, slings, swords, or other manufactured weapons anywhere on her body. - Lilly Pallywally: DEEP GNOME (svirfneblin) — a SMALL humanoid, roughly half the height of a human adult, correctly tiny in scale next to Celeste. She is seated in the saddle on Celeste's back. Her signature weapon is a JAVELIN named Longinus — a long hafted throwing spear, held upright like a standard, faintly radiant. A holy amulet at her throat, a shortsword and two daggers at her belt. Practical adventuring clothes; no heavy plate. - Unit-NULL: WARFORGED — a living construct. Plated metal-and-wood body with integrated armor that is part of the body itself, not worn gear; a constructed non-human face with glowing eye-lights, no hair, no exposed flesh. Broad, protective, front-line stance. Carries a shield and a distinctive massive serrated blade shaped like a crab's claw, forged of blackened obsidian-like chitin with a faintly iridescent glowing inner edge. A holy symbol visible. Androgynous construct build — not a gendered human body in armor. - Dr. Herbert Who: OWLIN — an owl-folk wizard. Fully feathered head with an owl's facial disk, a beak, large forward-facing eyes, and real feathered WINGS on his back. Traveler's robes and scholar's clothes, no armor. Holds a single wooden staff. A spellbook and component pouch at his side. Half-lifted off the ground or perched slightly elevated to read as an aerial scout. - Casanova Frankenstein: KOBOLD — a SMALL draconic humanoid with a scaled snout, small horns and a tail, one of the two smallest figures alongside Lilly. Traveler's clothes, no armor. An alchemist AND cook, seated comfortably beside a blackened cookpot suspended over a small controlled campfire. He holds a long cooking ladle in one hand and a glowing potion bottle in the other, combining culinary craft with alchemy. Alchemist's satchel, glass bottles, cooking supplies, and goggles nearby. No weapon in his hands. - Ara-Ara Avannatto: FEMALE SATYR — she/her, clearly feminine, NOT bearded and NOT male. Goat horns, goat legs with hooves below the waist, human-like torso above. Chain mail with a shield. A wooden healer's staff. She grips a heavy blunt MACE that looks unsettlingly organic — dark, blood-formed, faintly pulsing like something alive. A pan flute and a small diary hang at her belt. - Tahara Rahma: MALE DHAMPIR CLERIC — half-vampire, pale and deathly but alive; he/him. Masculine adult presentation. Breastplate and shield, a rapier at his hip, heavy ornate gauntlets, an amulet and a pearl necklace. He wears a long trench coat over his armor. He holds a glowing infernal map — an unrolled, faintly burning parchment chart. ACTION AND COMPOSITION A grim, stationary lineup at the mouth of a hellish canyon. Left to right roughly: Casanova seated low at the far left cooking over his small fire, Dr. Herbert Who slightly elevated behind him, Celeste standing central and dominant with Lilly mounted in her saddle, Unit-NULL planted at Celeste's flank with the claw-blade lowered, Ara-Ara beside them with mace and shield, Tahara at the right holding the glowing map and looking off-frame. All seven clearly separated, no overlapping or fused bodies. Every face and body plan legible. SETTING AND LIGHT A blighted infernal battlefield — cracked bone-strewn ground, corrupted mire, a bruised red-black sky, distant canyon walls. Low ember light from below, cold radiant highlights from Lilly's javelin and Tahara's map. Heavy atmosphere, drifting ash. CONTINUITY CONSTRAINTS - EXACTLY seven figures. No eighth character. No extra background adventurers. - Seven DIFFERENT species: centaur, deep gnome, warforged construct, owl-folk, kobold, satyr, dhampir. Not one of them is an ordinary human except Tahara, who is a pale half-vampire. - Celeste must be a true centaur — one fused body — NOT a human riding a horse and NOT a horse with a separate rider. She has no horns, no wings, and no fiendish features. Her hands are empty; her only weapons are fists and hooves, with no handaxes or manufactured weapons visible. - Lilly must be Small and mounted in Celeste's saddle, and her weapon must be a javelin, never a sword. - Unit-NULL's armor is its body. No removable plate, no hair, no human face. - Dr. Herbert Who is a real owl-person with wings, not a human in a feathered cloak. - Casanova is a kobold — not a goblin, gnome, dwarf, dragonborn, or human child. - Casanova is seated as an alchemist-cook with one ladle, one potion bottle, and one cookpot over a small fire. Do not replace these with a hammer, crossbow, or other weapon. - Ara-Ara is female. No beard. - Tahara is male and must have a masculine adult presentation. Never depict him as female. - Both Casanova and Lilly read as clearly smaller than everyone else. AVOID A party of generic humans; duplicate or mirrored figures; fused or merged anatomy; a horned or winged centaur; a human rider on a horse; a sword in Lilly's hands; invented plate armor on Casanova, Lilly, or Dr. Herbert Who; a normal plain longsword replacing Unit-NULL's claw-blade; handaxes or any manufactured weapon on Celeste; weapons in Casanova's hands; missing ladle, potion, cookpot, or cooking fire; any lettering, runes-as-text, signatures, or watermarks; an eighth figure. Repeat: exactly seven figures — Celeste (centaur), Lilly (small gnome, mounted), Unit-NULL (warforged), Dr. Herbert Who (owlin), Casanova (kobold), Ara-Ara (female satyr), Tahara (dhampir). ``` ## Notes - Colors, ages, heights, and palettes are deliberately unspecified — none are canon. Whatever the generator produces is **concept, not a visual lock**, until Aaron approves it. - The mace is described only by its appearance. Nothing about its speech, its offered boons, or anything a third party has said about it appears in this prompt.