extreme wide cinematic establishing shot at night, the inner city of a vast prosperous stone capital; an enormous pale stone plaza, flagstones so large and evenly set the seams barely show; at its center a colossal gate built from five unmatched rough boulders jammed against each other — grey-black coarse granite, blinding white marble, a honeycombed sea-worn rock full of holes, a blue-grey stone threaded with rust-colored iron veins, and a near-black stone with a faint dark-red sheen along one edge; no mortar, crooked seams packed with grime, raw chipped edges, yet every surface polished bright where generations of hands have worn it; the gate so large it frames a narrow vertical slit of indigo night sky; two tiny figures far off at the plaza edge reading as silhouettes, a weathered middle-aged soldier and a lean teenage boy, dwarfed by the stone; a patrol in bright armor standing at a corner, an old flower-seller sitting with garlands at the plaza rim, a small child running a circle around the base of the gate; behind, the capital rises — tall pale stone buildings with hundreds of lit windows, one straight avenue of lamps receding to a vanishing point, far more city than the eye can take in; warm lamplight pooling on the white flagstones, deep blue shadow, cold sky above; low camera at the plaza edge, 24mm wide angle, deep focus, figures small against architecture +【s】+