The redeemed knight

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Wait, How Did My Pet Become a Human?!

Published on 5 days ago

Selkei

knight_(ragnarok_online), a middle-aged male knight in his forties stands tall in front of a tall stone castle wall, looking directly at the viewer with a soft half-smile and a calm, friendly expression. He has a clean-shaven face with mature masculine features—a long straight nose, defined cheekbones, a strong jawline, faint smile lines at the corners of his mouth, slight crow's feet, and calm black eyes. His shoulder-length black hair has loose strands fluttering in the breeze. He wears a dark grey full plate armor layered with interlocking scales on the pauldrons and gauntlets, with dragon head shaped ornaments on the shoulder, and a tattered black shredded cloak trailing behind him. In his right hand he grips a very long bastard sword with a large black and red ornate cross-guard, the tip of the blade resting on the ground beside his foot. Behind him the same stone castle wall continues, with a small sunlit garden in soft daylight, all lit by a single warm low light source from the upper left that casts his elongated shadow against the wall—and that shadow takes the form of a tall monstrous, evil silhouette with horns, shoulder pads with spikes and a looming stance. The style is a very detailed semi-realistic illustration, with a low-saturation muted palette (cool greys, charcoal, slate, dusty stone beige), soft textured cross-hatched shading, cinematic full-body composition, soft rim light on the hair, and gentle specular shine on the polished plate armor.

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Original Prompt: A full-body illustration of a middle-aged male knight in his forties, standing tall in front of a tall stone castle wall, looking directly at the viewer with a soft half-smile and a calm, friendly expression. He has a clean-shaven face with mature masculine features — a long straight nose, defined cheekbones, a strong jawline, faint smile lines at the corners of his mouth, slight crow's feet, and calm black eyes. His shoulder-length black hair has loose strands fluttering in the breeze. He wears a dark grey full plate armor layered with interlocking scales on the pauldrons and gauntlets, with dragon head shaped ornaments on the shoulder, and a tattered black shredded cloak trailing behind him. In his right hand he grips a very long bastard sword with a large black and red ornate cross-guard, the tip of the blade resting on the ground beside his foot. Behind him the same stone castle wall continues, with a small sunlit garden in soft daylight, all lit by a single warm low light source from the upper left that casts his elongated shadow against the wall — and that shadow takes the form of a tall monstrous, evil silhouette with horns, shoulder pads with spikes and a looming stance. Style: very detailed semi-realistic illustration, low-saturation muted palette (cool greys, charcoal, slate, dusty stone beige), soft textured cross-hatched shading, cinematic full-body composition, soft rim light on the hair, gentle specular shine on the polished plate armor
Quality Tag: high quality, year_2025, year_2024, ﹝Prompts﹞
Size: 768 x 1280
Sampling Steps: 20
Sampling Method: Euler a
CFG Scale: 9
Negative: bad quality, low quality, worst quality, lowres, nsfw, jpeg artifacts, scan artifacts, mosaic, cropped, error, fewer digits, bad reflection, bad composition, bad anatomy, bad hands, bad fingers, missing fingers, extra hands, extra legs, excess fingers, light particles, artist name, text, watermark, username, copyright name, young, youthful, teen, teenager, boy, child, baby face, girl, feminine, smooth skin, unlined skin, 20s, multiple light sources, flat lighting, high key lighting, even lighting, overhead lighting, angry, grimace, scowl, fierce expression, sneer, anime, cartoon, chibi, 3d, 3d render, cg, sketch, lineart, cel shading, vibrant, neon, oversaturated, pastel, high saturation, close-up, headshot, bust, cropped, blurry, beard