[Art V3][Codex] Establish realistic character direction

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+# Art V3 — Approval Gate 1
+
+These three review sheets define the proposed **Realistic Eastern Dark Fantasy
+Pixel Art** direction before animation production begins.
+
+## Authoritative references
+
+- **Player:** the user-supplied elite Southern Song veteran reference: black
+  chainmail/lamellar armour, dark red cloth, shield, saber, and heavy boots.
+- **Gate Warden:** the user-supplied mounted armoured commander reference. This
+  review direction treats the rider and barded horse together as the Boss
+  silhouette.
+
+The Ghost Melee, Ghost Archer, and Corpse Beast were designed to share those
+references' realistic anatomy, historical material language, cold moonlight,
+surface wear, palette, and pixel density.
+
+## Files
+
+- `character_lineup.png` — full-colour material, silhouette, and world-cohesion
+  approval sheet.
+- `silhouette_test.png` — solid-form readability check with all five subjects
+  on one ground plane.
+- `scale_reference.png` — technical grid showing the declared 100%, 105%, 108%,
+  130%, and 240% hierarchy.
+
+## Approval boundary
+
+No animation sheets, gameplay assets, Godot resources, collision settings, or
+combat timing were changed in this deliverable. Animation production begins
+only after this lineup is approved.
+
+Generated with the built-in image generation workflow using the two supplied
+screenshots as visual references. The character-lineup prompt established the
+design; the silhouette sheet derived its contours from that lineup; the scale
+sheet was a high-fidelity edit of the approved lineup with only the technical
+background and exact scale labels added.