Elysian is a meticulously tuned Illustrious XL merge designed to bridge the gap between artistic composition and smooth color rendering, leveraging a non-destructive DARE+TIES merge strategy.

🧪 The Recipe (DARE+TIES)

• Base: Prefect illustrious XL v8 (The foundational anchor)

• Model A (30%): Bismuth Illustrious Mix v8

• Model B (30%): Nova Anime XL v19

• Model C (40%): WAI-illustrious-SDXL v17

⚙️ Recommended Generation Settings

• Sampler: Euler a or DPM++ 2M Karras

• Steps: 26 - 32

• CFG Scale: 5 - 7

• VAE: Baked-in (Illustrious-XL-v2.0).