2013 Fantasy Pin-up Calendar (possible spoilers all Hobb books)

[Albertosaurus Rex]

That does indeed look like an Elderling crest, but that raises just more questions. Like: didn't Malta have black hair? (EDIT: Just noticed what you guys said about her hair in previous posts.) And didn't she have more scaling? Unless, indeed, this is from the beginning of her transformation... at which time I seem to remember her being thirteen.