'Mask in the image of a white-haired young noble. Customarily worn by the head of House Marais. Increases arcane. The Marais family has a dual history spanning generations, serving as both executioners and castellans of the Shaded Castle. This mask bears the likeness of the first of their line.' Maleigh is the present head of an old house with a contradictory office : House Marais both runs the Shaded Castle as castellans and operates as the realm's executioners. Their celebrated artefact is the Marais Executioner's Sword. The masks each new generation wears, all carved in the likeness of the line's first patriarch, are uneasily young, a young face passed down to old men who never live to look it.

'Robe with a black mantle across the shoulders. Customarily worn by the head of House Marais. The sons of House Marais are all sickly born. Little wonder that Maleigh Marais would be so beguiled by the beautiful and fierce goddess who was born into rot.' The Marais sons are sickly. The canon's understated explanation for Maleigh's late-life conversion is contained in a single sentence in the robe's flavour text : Little wonder that Maleigh Marais would be so beguiled by the beautiful and fierce goddess who was born into rot. The fierce rot-goddess is Malenia. The man whose family was supposed to put her to death has, in his sickness, fallen in worship of her. The Tarnished may invade his castle on the Volcano Manor's behalf, slay him, and find at his bedside the family executioner's sword that he never lifted in his goddess's name.