A colossal black fortress, carved from a single spur of volcanic glass, cracks and splits apart atop a jagged mountain range as pillars of crimson fire erupt from fissures in the earth below. The sky is a churning maelstrom of amber and bruised purple clouds, backlit by a dying sun that casts impossible rays of gold across an endless plain of ash and ruin. Tiny silhouettes of fleeing armies stream down switchback roads cut into the cliffs, dwarfed utterly by the scale of the destruction above them. Rivers of molten rock spill into a dark ocean in the far distance, where steam rises in towering white columns. Painted in a dramatic, sublime Romantic style with extreme contrasts of light and shadow.