Magic Is Beautiful

I felt like drawing Meraad Adaar, 's Dragon Age OC, the Inquisitor's sister and a former Saarebas, as she is slowly starting to embrace rather than fear her magic, with the help of Hawke and Cole, as described in this story:

Unlearning FearDalton Hawke can’t decide whether it’s a beautiful morning or not.
The arguments for yes: the sky is vast and open, barely a single wisp of cloud breaking up the swathe of pale blue-grey. The high walls of Skyhold keep out the worst of the wind, and the air is fresh from the dawn, cool and bracing in Dalton’s throat. The fortress is alive with life, the sun making the green and russet leaves translucent, the courtyards thrumming with activity and chatter.
The arguments for no: he slept badly, his dreams a nonsensical and really rather unpleasant blur of Templars and darkspawn and multiple raging Arishoks. And more importantly, every face here is unfamiliar, and they’ll stay unfamiliar until he can find Varric, which doesn’t seem likely to happen any time soon. Perhaps he’ll be better at navigating the keep after a week or two here, but for now, the place is worse than a maze. Standing in the courtyard, surrounded by strangers, with no i

She looks happier than she is supposed to; plus the atmosphere is too dark for the time of day when the story takes place... So it's probably not her first lesson.