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Parchment Epic

Aged parchment, engraved line drawings that etch themselves, and wide-tracked serif headlines under sunburst rays.

16:9Slow pace8.5sepicscholarlywarm

Documentary-explainer style for histories, origin stories and big-idea narratives. Warm parchment with a vignette and grain, thin dark-brown engravings (clock faces, rose windows, arcades, compass geometry) that draw themselves stroke by stroke, Cinzel all-caps headlines with one deep-red accent word, radiating sunburst rays behind the hero, HUD-style corner metadata with an era counter and a red progress rule, and a dark opening scene with a golden glowing title.

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Palette

parchment#e4d5b4

parchmentLight#eee3c8

parchmentEdge#c9b28a

ink#2a1d12

engraving#3b2a1a

hud#5b4630

red#a3221b

blue#2f4a76

dark#140d06

gold#f6d38a

Type

Display: Cinzel 700, 900All-caps headlines 74–150px, tracking 0.08–0.12em; the huge red year counter at 400px
Body: Cormorant Garamond 500Italic narration lines 34–40px under headlines
Mono: IBM Plex Mono 400, 500HUD metadata and kicker lines 11–26px, uppercase, tracking 0.3em

Motion

Engrave: power2.inOut
Headline: power3.out
Caption: power2.out
Rays: none
Counter: power2.inOut
Average shot: 2.1s

Four plates: cold open, hero engraving, date counter, title card. Each plate spends its first second drawing, then holds while hands, rays or counters keep moving slowly.

Transitions and text

hard cut between parchment plates; each plate redraws from blank
dark-to-parchment cut after the glowing cold open
HUD frame and red progress rule persist across every parchment plate
headline rises 26px while tracking tightens 0.16em → 0.08em, 0.9s power3.out, 0.22s line stagger
glow title resolves from blur(14px) and scale 1.08
big year counter ticks between dates with power2.inOut
kicker and italic captions fade up 10px

Style guide your agent follows

Parchment is a radial gradient #eee3c8 → #e2d1ad → #c9b28a with a brown vignette and an feTurbulence grain layer (multiply, ~0.3 opacity). Cold opens are #140d06 with a gold #f6d38a title and stacked orange text-shadows.
Headlines: Cinzel 700 uppercase, 74–150px, tracking 0.08em, one short line in ink #2a1d12 plus one accent word in red #a3221b. Rise 26px while tracking tightens, 0.9s power3.out.
Illustrations are inline SVG engravings in #3b2a1a, 1.2–2.4px strokes with pathLength=1; draw rings first, then detail, with power2.inOut over 0.9–1.6s and small staggers. Fill colour (red/blue) only after the strokes finish, at ~0.8 opacity.
Put a 96-ray sunburst (#6b4a26 at 0.13 opacity) behind the hero and rotate it linearly a few degrees per plate; keep hands, counters or rays moving so nothing is static.
Keep a HUD frame on every parchment plate: 30px corner brackets 40px in, IBM Plex Mono labels (chapter top-left, series top-right, era bottom-left, plate bottom-right) and a 640px red progress rule that fills linearly across the piece.
Use one big red Cinzel year (≈400px) that ticks between dates while an engraving draws over it. Avoid modern sans type, pure white and saturated colour beyond the single red.