Viking longship battles colossal wave under aurora-torn sky in storm

A thunderous, large-scale digital painting depicting a Viking longship caught inside the eye of a supernatural storm in the North Atlantic, circa 900 AD. The vessel is almost vertical against a colossal black-green wave, its carved serpent prow lunging skyward. The crew twelve warriors rendered in brutal anatomical detail are lashed to oars and rigging, faces contorted between terror and defiance. Above the churning chaos, the aurora borealis tears through the storm wall in violent ribbons of electric green and cold violet, as if the sky itself is splitting open. Salt spray, splintered wood, and torn wool fill the foreground.