secret_grotesque_fantasy, A wide-angle landscape illustration capturing the full body of a fierce adult dragon coiled protectively around immense, sprawling mounds of gold treasure that fill a vast volcanic cavern floor. The dragon’s head, with glowing intense eyes and massive swept-back horns, is turned to face forward, its jaws slightly open. The thick layered scales across its entire body are rendered in vivid red, molten orange, and incandescent ember tones, showing heat-scorched textures and fine cracks like heated metal. Massive leathery wings are partially furled against the cavern walls. The environment is an expansive volcanic chamber with rivers of blurry lava and ash-filled air in the background. Dramatic directional lighting from below (the lava and gold) casts deep shadows upward across the dragon's full form and the cavern rock. Gritty texture throughout the entire image, painterly illustration style with extremely detailed intricate ink linework defining scale edges, gold coins, and rock formations, stippling used to convey heat shimmer, smoke across the wide space, and surface texture. High contrast between glowing highlights and shadowed forms, sharp focus on the dragon and the central hoard, with a softened distant background. Cinematic wide framing and expansive depth of field, fantasy aesthetic emphasizing elemental power.
