An oil painting of a shirtless man, a woman with a serpentine lower body offering cookies to small bird-like serpent creatures, and a large beast in a vibrant forest clearing.

Subject & Style Near-photorealistic oil painting, cinematic wide group portrait in a vibrant forest clearing that forms a natural amphitheater. Shafts of bright sunlight cut through the canopy; faintly glowing fungi and flowers rim the clearing. Colorful, high dynamic range, but natural. Framing & Lens WIDE shot, everyone fully visible, some headroom and ground visible. Eye-level shot. Soft backlight + fill to keep details in fur/feathers/scales. Include upper branches and ground flora; show clear spacing (tension) between humans and serpents. Characters & Exact Visuals Vaelan (center-front, adult): mid-20s, clearly of age. Shirtless except clean off-white bandages wrapping his torso. One hand touches a tooth pendant on a cord at his chest. Both arms have fur and iridescent oil-slick scales; the fur merges into scales along the forearms and hands. Subtle vellus hair on shoulders. Expression torn between awe and worry. Fit but not bodybuilder. Maggie (front-right, adult): mid-20s, unmistakably adult. Golden-blonde hair, bright green eyes, wearing a simple green cotehardie (historically plausible cut). Sitting cross-legged on grass, offering cookies to small serpent-children. Warm, gentle anchor energy. Serpent Children (at Maggie’s knees): avian–serpentine chimeras (not just snakes): downy feathers + small scales, little forelimbs, beaked faces, long serpentine bodies, curious, knee-high at most. One nibbles a cookie. Amourath (behind Vaelan, slightly left): large (dire-wolf See more