Chaman Cornu des Marais au Lever du Soleil

A vertical dark fantasy oil painting of [a towering marsh shaman-warrior] striding forward through shallow swamp water at sunrise. Subject: A muscular, mud-streaked, gray-tan skinned humanoid demigod with a grim shadowed face, long wild white hair and beard blowing across his chest, and two tall curved black horns rising from a dark ceremonial headpiece. He wears a ragged mantle made of reeds, straw, feathers, and swamp grasses, with layered primitive wraps, bone amulets, dangling beads, shells, and talismans. In his left hand he carries a tall rough wooden staff bound with reeds, cords, thorns, and a small bronze disk; his right hand loosely grips the horned skull of a dark animal pelt. Environment: A dense wetland filled with tall brown cattails and reeds, reflective knee-deep muddy water splashing around his forward foot, and a pale blue-gray morning sky. A huge glowing white sun sits directly behind his head, forming a halo accented by faint geometric crosshair lines. A flock of seven white birds flies across the right sky. Composition & Style: Centered full-body low-angle heroic pose. Painterly impasto textures, muted ochres, swamp greens, and bone-white tones, with dramatic backlighting and heavy atmospheric haze.