Seeds of the Throne

Gemini Test: Samuel Franklin Gets Busted

Repository context

Public repository: https://github.com/cubixmeow-commits/seeds-of-the-throne

Before generating, read:

1. skills/create-seeds-images/SKILL.md
2. skills/create-seeds-images/references/visual-registry.json
3. skills/create-seeds-images/references/prompt-contract.md
4. 02 Story/Characters/Samuel Franklin.md

Use these three approved identity images as the strongest references:

• assets/reference-images/samuel-franklin-front-v1.png
• assets/reference-images/samuel-franklin-profile-left-v1.png
• assets/reference-images/samuel-franklin-identity-master-v1.png

Attach the images directly if Gemini cannot load raw image files from GitHub.

Generation prompt

Create one text-free cinematic 16:9 image for Seeds of the Throne.

The attached Samuel Franklin reference images are the authority for his identity. Preserve the exact same face and character. The straight-on image controls facial width, eye spacing, hairline, beard, and frontal anatomy. The strict side profile controls his forehead, nose, lips, chin, ear, crown line, and hair volume. The three-quarter master controls skin texture, expression, wardrobe language, lighting, and overall identity. Ignore any words or labels embedded in older supporting images.

Samuel appears physically in his late sixties to early seventies. He is a lean older man with a slightly stooped but commanding posture, a long deeply weathered face, a deeply furrowed brow and cheeks, a prominent slightly hooked nose, heavy eye sockets, a compressed mouth, and severe natural asymmetry from age and strain. He has receding gray hair, wavy to loosely curled and ear length at the sides and back, plus a short rough gray beard and mustache. His eyes are deep set and dark. His expression is furious but controlled, with authority expressed through restraint rather than theatrical rage.

Story moment: after approximately fifty years of building a distributed cult and terrorizing populations through technology and credibility stolen from his family, Samuel is finally exposed and taken into custody. The scene occurs inside the collapsing command center of his distributed technological network. Advanced containment officers close in from both sides while his access is visibly revoked. Red interfaces fracture and shut down. Branching circuitry goes dark. Antique-gold evidence geometry cuts through the red system, showing that authenticated records have exposed him and his organization has failed.

Samuel is not yet a king. He wears no crown. Do not turn this into a royal throne scene. His clothing is a severe black high-collared technological coat with restrained antique-gold embroidered circuitry, appropriate to a wealthy fallen systems heir before his later performed kingship. His hands are visible and empty. He is not fighting, shooting, or posing like an action hero. The emotional center is the instant he understands that his inherited access, captured infrastructure, and family credibility have been stripped away.

Use a cinematic medium-wide composition. Place Samuel near the center, isolated by negative space and failing red light. The containment officers should be visually subordinate, anonymous, disciplined, and technologically advanced, with no real-world uniforms, badges, flags, or insignia. Their design is part of an ancient interplanetary civilization, not contemporary police or military imagery. Do not show Samuel's parents because their appearance and physical presence at the arrest are unresolved.

Style: gothic archival science fantasy, painterly photorealism, tactile aged skin, black cloth, dark metal, smoke, dust, restrained future technology, sacred evidence geometry, and high-contrast chiaroscuro. Use near-black and charcoal as the ground, blood crimson and ember red for Samuel's collapsing control, and antique or luminous gold for truth and authenticated evidence. Red and gold must remain narratively legible rather than blending into generic orange light. Use darkness as negative space.

Do not produce blue-purple neon cyberpunk, white utopian interfaces, plastic 3D rendering, generic medieval fantasy, superhero armor, a cape, a crown, anime proportions, excessive lens flare, or a younger face. Do not make Samuel bald, muscular, friendly, clean shaven, or give him a long wizard beard. Do not include Sylvan, George, Konrad, Samuel's parents, duplicate people, malformed hands, real-world insignia, words, letters, captions, logos, signatures, or watermarks.

Return artwork only. Preserve identity before novelty.

Evaluation

Generate three candidates if available. Prefer the candidate that best preserves Samuel's face and apparent age, not simply the most dramatic composition. Treat every result as a candidate until the author approves it.