Floating Persian City with Waterfalls at Sunrise

Create an extraordinary epic fantasy matte painting of a floating city at sunrise, built on several massive rock islands suspended high above a sea of golden clouds. The city is the hero of the image and its architecture is inspired by historic Persian cities: warm sandstone walls, turquoise and cobalt tiled domes, slender minaret-like towers, arched iwans, tall badgir wind-catchers like those of Yazd, and terraced gardens with cypress trees and long reflecting pools. It should feel like a real lived-in city, rather than a generic fantasy castle. Waterfalls pour off the edges of the islands in long silver ribbons, dissolving into mist far below. Elegant stone bridges and rope walkways connect the islands, hanging gardens spill greenery over the walls, and a few small airships with cloth sails in saffron and crimson drift between the towers. A flock of white doves crosses the foreground. Art direction: "GARDENS OF THE SKY" — majestic, serene and full of wonder rather than dark or threatening. Add subtle details: tiny figures walking on the bridges for scale, glints of morning light on the tiled domes, mist catching sunlight around the waterfalls, lanterns still glowing faintly in a few windows, distant mountain peaks breaking through the clouds. Composition: landscape 16:9, wide establishing shot, camera slightly below the main island looking up, the largest island on the left third, strong atmospheric perspective into the distance, clear foreground, middle ground and background. Lighting: sunrise from the right, warm golden light on the domes and walls, long soft shadows across the terraces, volumetric light rays through the mist, cool teal shadows on the undersides of the islands. Color palette: gold, peach, warm sandstone, turquoise, cobalt blue, ivory, soft teal shadows. Visual style: highly detailed painterly realism, cinematic concept art, grand scale, rich textures of stone and tile, refined color grading, no flat lighting, no CGI plastic look. The final image should feel like the opening shot of a grand fantasy film set in a mythical Persian world. No text. No modern buildings. No cars. No blurry details. No watermark.

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fantasy floating island city waterfall sunrise