After many prompt tweaks, an initial image tweaks, disco diffusion notably exceeded the quality provided by stable AI notebooks and artbreeder....

The Prompt:
"A stylized illustration in ink lineart and watercolor with sharp 8K resolution and vibrant HDR color depth, of a golden grip and pointy shards of glowing iridescent crystals, wrapped in tangled roots and vines, by Donato Giancola, by Terese Nielsen, by Edmund Dulac, and Charles Vess, trending on Artstation and Deviantart:3.6",
"with damaged colorful and iridescent translucent glowing crystals in vibrant colors, wrapped by tangled roots:0.4",
"With damaged colorful and iridescent translucent glowing bismuth crystals in vibrant colors and crumbling cracked chipped edges:0.1",
"With damaged colorful and iridescent translucent glowing tourmaline crystals in vibrant colors and crumbling cracked chipped edges:0.1",
"With damaged colorful and iridescent translucent glowing turquoise crystals in vibrant colors and crumbling cracked chipped edges:0.1",
"With damaged colorful and iridescent translucent glowing emerald crystals in vibrant colors and crumbling cracked chipped edges:0.1",
"With celtic knot carvings and ornaments:0.2",
"Damaged and shatered into pointy shards with cracked chipped edges crumbling, with scratches and fissures over the surface, desintegrating and vanishing into vibrant dust of colorful glitter particles:0.6",
"With esoterical and magical mood, With galactical and stellar mood:0.2",
"Very detailed oriental ink brush painting and colored with vibrant oriental watercolor painting:0.2",
"by Edmund Dulac, by Gustaf Tenggren, by Rebecca Guay, by James Jean, by Walter Crane, by Arthur Rackham, by Ivan Bilibin, by Charles Vess, by William Stout, by Jon Foster, by Alphonse Mucha, by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, by Barry Windsor Smith, by Jakub Rebelka:0.2",
"by Yumihiko Amano, by Ayami Kojima, by Yoshitaka Amano, by Hideyuki Kikuchi, by Victo Ngai, by Kay Nielsen, by Warwick Goble, by Harry Clarke, by Terese Nielsen, by Daniel Merriam, by Henry Raleigh, by Kilian Eng, by Franklin Booth:0.2",
"by Wendy Froud, by John Bauer, by Brian Froud, by Tony DiTerlizzi, by Jakub Rebelka, by Jakub Rebelka, by Olivier Bonhomme,by Donato Giancola:0.2",
"with lustruos polished glossy crystals shinning bright and colorful edge reflections:0.1",
"with lustrous and polished polished glossy surfaces bursting glowing lens flares and light streaks from shiny shimmering edge reflections:0.4",
"In 8k High-resolution with sharp edges and lines:0.8",
"With detailed and smooth shading of the highlights and shadows, strong and detailed ambient occlusion, detailed contact shadows and lighting:0.8",
"Stylized 3D render with enhanced and increased depth and perspective:0.6",
"pixelated, pixel art, serrated edges, jagged edges, pixelated edges, low resolution image, low quality image, .jpeg compression artifacts, compression artifacts, datamosh:-0.4",
"child drawing, crayon drawing, chalk drawing, charcoal drawing, sketch drawing, rough drawing:-0.2",
"grains, grainy, dirt, dusty, pointillism, stippling, dithering, dithered image, dithering pattern, quantized image, noisy texture:-0.1",
"depth of field, blurred image, blurred edges, blurry silhouette, out of focus, foggy, hazy:-0.4",
"simple, minimalist, flat, ordinary, neat and clean:-0.8",