Made with Nano Banana 2 Lite · CC0 · 12 Sept 2026

Image: Comic-book spell cut-in panel for a fantasy RPG ba

Generated from: Comic-book spell cut-in panel for a fantasy RPG battle. This exact character, the old sage Merlin (long grey hair and beard, stern weathered face, deep slate-navy hooded robes with a dusky purple-blue cloak, leather pouches on his belt, tall gnarled wooden staff), shown from the waist up, thrusting his staff forward as a roaring fireball bursts from its tip toward the right edge of the frame. Orange and gold fire lights his face from below, hood shadows, embers swirling, radial speed lines. Wide cinematic 16:9 composition, face and fireball inside the central 70% for crop safety. Painterly anime illustration, clean line, soft cel-plus-gradient shading, semi-realistic proportions, cool blue ambient fill against the warm firelight. Background dark and drained grey. NO text, NO speech bubbles, NO panel border, NO dither, NO scanlines, NO watermark.