Over the years, Madame Blackmask refined Cole from a starving thief into a confident merchant. She was the first person who gave him a sense of purpose and self-worth!

Cole’s coat, a small spellbook, and the meager fortune of her shop, were Madame Blackmask's last mementos to Cole before she passed away.

This overall started as a 50-minute coloring warmup on an old ink drawing.