Add Legendary Moses card and production guidance

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# Moses v01 — provisional illustration review
Status: **art-review; no user artwork approval and no assembly**. Astra medium authored the concept and prompt. The built-in image tool rendered one provisional study. Inspected its returned native image and the saved thumbnail (250×350). The image-view tool failed sandbox initialization; thumbnail inspection used a JPEG transported from the saved review image. No GPU or moving-light review applies to this art-only study.
## What works
- The governing threshold idea reads immediately: Moses turns to the presence beside the tent, with the people’s camp behind him. Folded hands and a lowered gaze express responsibility and attention rather than triumph.
- Pose is coherent. Both hands belong to visible forearms; resting fingers and wrist overlap read plausibly. The robe has weight, shoulders connect clearly and no theatrical action competes with the face.
- Tent curtain, flowing robes, clouds, sky, mountains and broad ground forms are built from meaningful glass panes. Clothing divisions follow fold direction. Dark leading and the sapphire/burgundy/ivory color masses organize the thumbnail strongly.
- Cloud is luminous but non-anthropomorphic. No literal divine figure, horns, tablets, Sinai or Red Sea motif appears. Cloud light connects the face, inner garment and tent threshold.
- Tent opening is readable at normal and thumbnail scale. Rows of tents recede into the right background and establish the people Moses serves.
- Face and folded hands are well above a prospective lower-quarter verse region. The top-right sky offers title clearance under the David surrogate. Full-bleed lower scene remains complete.
## Risks and next refinement
- Face, hands and beard lean toward conventional detailed illustration: realistic wrinkles, veins and hair strands exceed the desired stylized pane modeling. Before art lock, consider a targeted edit simplifying skin into expressive bounded areas and quieting microtexture without altering expression, hand ownership or pose.
- Camp contains small figures, animal and vegetation details beyond what the scene needs. It remains subordinate but could simplify into fewer grouped panes.
- Cloud has scalloped bulb-like repetition; it works as assembled glass but could gain broader, less repetitive flowing shapes if revising. It is brighter than the face; assess whether its brightness competes with Moses on the composed card.
- Environmental surface is pronounced and also carries through the robe. Its grain remains below the leading at thumbnail scale; keep any future skin correction much gentler than the environment.
- This is a waist-to-feet cropped full-height presence, not a literal full-body image with visible feet. Lower robe continues through the bottom edge intentionally.
## Bespoke blend feasibility
The left burgundy curtain is visibly attached to the tent lintel and hangs to a complete hem. Its lower folds can later cross a backing’s left edge while remaining visibly attached above; this is a stronger structural overlap candidate than a detached cloud fragment. The adjacent luminous cloud can inform a curved panel boundary, but avoid wrapping decorative cloud around lettering. The exact panel shape is unresolved. Do not simply reuse David’s mantle geometry or cut off the curtain where a backing hides its base.
No frame, backing, text, masks, printings, finish coverage or harness fixtures were generated. Production assembly remains deferred until the user concludes the artwork loop.