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Art style: Песочная анимация, древняя Месопотамия. Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright, figure centered with an ancient Mesopotamian setting filling the sides. Darius is a twelve-year-old boy, lean and wiry with sun-browned olive skin, a square stubborn jaw and bright dark eyes that blaze with fierce defiance masking hidden fear. His black hair is thick and tousled, cropped at the shoulders in the ancient manner, a thin braided lock at one temple. He wears a short knee-length linen tunic belted with a woven cord, a worn leather baldric across his chest, bronze arm-cuffs and a small round wooden shield slung on his back. His legs are bare and scratched; he stands in flat leather sandals laced up the ankle. One fist is clenched, chin raised, feet planted wide in a brave guarded stance before mudbrick walls, palm trees and a dusty riverbank town behind him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image entirely in "Песочная анимация, древняя Месопотамия" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Песочная анимация, древняя Месопотамия". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Песочная анимация, древняя Месопотамия" idiom, not in any other medium.