Maria Custard

About
She was one of the apprentices of Ragishss, and is known as one of the Four Witches of Kathtom, 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 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, Ragishss.

One of her interests is magic development.

Personal History
Right after being born in the year GI0999, Maria was abandoned in front of a Helman orphanage by her parents. Black Custard, the head of the orphanage, names her Maria after his stillborn child and begins raising her. Even from a young age she was interested in sciende and engineering. She starts sneaking out after bedtime to watch discovery and science programs on Magic Vision, and because of this, her eyesight worsens and she starts wearing glasses.



=== When she was 12 years old, Ragishss visits the orphanage and she joins Shizuka, Eleanor and Mill as his adopted children. Studying at Ragishss' magic cram school, she begins to excel at water magic, but she becomes infatuated with the strange manufacturings of a tall, silent man who works at a local factory and starts visiting there frequently. His nickname is Bean Pole. She remembers him as a giant but he's not actually that tall. ===

=== Inspired by his creations, she uses a milk carton and a straw to creat the Tulip #0, a high-pressure water gun with about the same power as rudimentary water magic. She happily shows Ragishss her invention but he's furious that she's doing something that denies magic and she's punished. === A few years later a beautiful genius lady appears and accidentally deliver a monthly academic journal to Maria, who becomes engrossed in the journal.

With Bean Pole's creativity and the basic knowledge she gained from the academic journal, she creates the prototype cannon of the Tulip #1. This time she keeps it a secret from Ragishss but it's still found and she's punished more severely. As a side effect of the Phil Ring given to her by Ragishss upon her graduation, Maria goes mad. The devices and magic circles used to suck magic energy out people were created by Maria to help Shizuka in her selfish objectives after going mad as well.

Appearances
Rance 2 One of the Four Witches of Kathtom, 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 deals serious damage to Ragishss with her Tulip#2.

Maria runs the "Maria Factory" in Kathtom, to help with the restoration of the town and to make amends for what she and her comrades had done.

Rance 4
Maria, along with Rick, Leila, Shizuka, Kanami, and Julia, are sent by Lia to the floating island in order to find Rance. They fly to the island using her Tulip #4, although it breaks down in the process.

Sengoku Rance
She appears as reinforcements 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.