A single clan mark, rendered as a dark oil painting on aged desert stone. Square format. CENTRAL IMAGE: A set of scales — the kind used for precise measurement, perfectly balanced — with one pan holding a small dark object (a smooth stone or a sealed box, unidentifiable) and the other pan empty. The scales are in perfect equilibrium despite the asymmetry. Beneath the scales, barely visible, a single line of abstract mark-making — not letters from any known alphabet, the suggestion of a code without a cipher. SYMBOLIC READING: The scales represent the family code of judgment — the determination of what is irrecoverable and what is not. The empty pan does not mean nothing has been weighed: it means the weight is carried elsewhere. The marks below are the code itself — present but illegible. PALETTE: Arid stone background — warm dark tones with the dry quality of desert rock. The scales in deep charcoal and near-black. A single trace of dark red, the color of dried blood, visible only in the line of marks beneath. No bright tones. STYLE: Dark fantasy oil painting, no text, no heraldic border. The scales should feel ancient and functional rather than decorative — the instrument of a working profession, not a symbol of justice. Precise linework, minimal ornamentation.