Maria Custard

During Rance 2, she was one of the apprentices of Ragithis, and is known as one of the Four Witches of Custom, specializing in water magic. She turned to the technical side, and worked on various technical inventions right after Rance saved her, which also caused her to lose the most of her magical power. Ever since that event, she has been in love with him. Her most popular creation is the Tulip series.

She is also a close friend to Masou Shizuka as they were studying magic together and being taught by the same person, Ragithis.

One of her interests is magic development

Rance 2
One of the Four Witches of Custom, Maria appears as the first maiden who confronts Rance and is also the first to "bite the dust". Maria joined Rance's party in purpose to save her comrades and she has proven to be a valuable ally until the end of story.

She partakes in the final battle indirectly as she is not shown in the party members, but she is the one responsible to deal the a lot of serious damages to Ragithis by using her Tulip#2.

Maria runs "Maria Factory" in Custom, to help with the restoration of the town and to repent what she and her comrades ever done.

Sengoku Rance
She appears as the reinforcement from Leazas and her job is "Engineer".

Since she's the creator of the Tulip series and is also the inventor of Tulip #1, she is worshiped as a goddess by people from the Tanegashima House.