Dragon Empress in Crimson Robes

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Create a tall vertical fantasy xianxia illustration in an ultra-detailed East Asian ink-painting and dark ornate Art Nouveau style. The scene shows a serene immortal empress seated in profile on a mossy cliff, wearing a flowing black outer robe embroidered with intricate teal filigree and a dramatic deep crimson red gown cascading down the rocks like a river of silk. She has very long black hair streaming behind her, an elegant gold hair ornament, pale skin, and a calm downward gaze, holding a slender ceremonial staff or sword across her lap. Above and behind her, a colossal serpentine dragon coils through the sky, its body made of dark teal scales, swirling carved cloud patterns, and bronze-gold antler-like horns, lowering its head protectively toward her. Surround the cliff with dense red spider lilies, twisted dark branches, ancient broken temple architecture, mist, and curling clouds. Include exactly four white cranes: one large crane in the bottom foreground with black neck feathers and red crown, two cranes flying or standing to the right of the woman, and one small crane silhouette high in the cloudy sky. The background is a vast celestial mountain-temple landscape with jade mist, pale waterfalls or shafts of light, stormy clouds, and small glowing lantern-like points in the distance. Use a limited palette of deep teal, black, jade gray, ivory white, muted gold, and saturated crimson red. Composition should be cinematic and diagonal, with the dragon forming a sweeping arch from upper left to center, the woman centered lower-middle, and the red gown leading the eye to the bottom edge. Render with extreme fine linework, dense ornamental detail, painterly smoke, layered depth, delicate textures, high contrast, ethereal atmosphere, and no modern objects.