Prompt:
Crown of the Falling Sky’ — at late golden hour in another world, a ring-shaped mountain the size of a continent rises from an endless cloud ocean: a colossal stone halo of veined white marble, dark basalt, and glassy obsidian, its inner walls carved into vertical fjords and crystal terraces that plunge down into mist. From the outside of the ring, rivers of ultra-clear water pour upward in slow, impossible arcs, climbing against gravity to crest the rim and spill inward as continuous curtains of waterfalls, their spray weaving a permanent rainbow halo around the inner void. Inside the ring, hanging lakes and mirrored plateaus float at different heights, each one a perfect saucer of glass-still water reflecting a different sky — one violet dusk, one pale dawn, one storm, one starfield — all stacked in parallax. The inner cliff faces shimmer with embedded gem seams and giant translucent crystals, throwing razor-clean spectral caustics and thin-film iridescent flares across the fog; pockets of bioluminescent moss etch contour lines of cyan and emerald along ledges. Far below, the cloud ocean churns in slow vortices, lit from within by soft aurora filaments (mint, magenta, gold) that rise in pillars and dissolve into glowing mist. Tiny, distant structures hint at ancient observatories and shrines carved into the rock, their windows pinpricks of warm light. Ultra-real materials (wet basalt, veined marble, obsidian, clear water with subsurface scattering, optical crystals, volumetric cloud and mist), razor-sharp micro-detail (rock grain, micro-cracks, moss textures, spray droplets, dust motes in god rays), thin-film iridescence on crystal and rainbow edges, chromatic dispersion in waterfall caustics, gentle volumetric haze to reveal layered depth, light shafts, and hovering spray. Lighting: low warm sun just off-frame to the left grazing the outer rim and waterfall crests with golden highlights, cool cyan-blue fill from the cloud ocean and inner void, subtle violet-blu
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