Daniel and the Four Rising Beasts

Prompt

The camera completes its backward pull and continues craning upward and away, ascending rapidly into an aerial drone view from nearly a kilometer out — a vast, god's-eye perspective of the entire scene. From this immense height, we see the solitary figure of Daniel — an older man in the robes of a Babylonian-era Hebrew exile, dark robe and sash, grey in his beard, a simple head covering whipped by the wind — now a tiny silhouette on a dark rocky promontory at the edge of the sea, dwarfed by the elemental chaos around him. His hands hang at his sides, one slightly raised as if to ward off what he sees. His robes are drenched by rain and sea spray. Before him, filling the entire horizon, the four beasts charge toward the shore through the storm — from this altitude we take in the full devastating panorama: the churning abyss, the four empires rising from the deep, lit by continuous sheet lightning that forks across a sky of immense scale. The scale is devastating: one frail prophet, a mere speck on the jagged coastline, against four empires rising from the abyss. The camera holds at this great remove. Daniel does not flee. His tiny silhouette is steady, trembling only slightly. A single shaft of clean white light begins to break through the clouds high above him — a hint of the Ancient of Days to come in the next chapter of the vision. Cinematic, reverent, awe-struck. Ultra-wide aerial lens, deep focus across the whole vista, the rain-haze softening the far beasts, Daniel rendered small but unmistakably the still center of the frame. Audio: No Music, natural environment sounds only, the beast(s), storm, thunder, etc.