Ah, no, on all counts. Some orders wear veils, but they are not a part of the traditional vestments of those serving the Clarity, like myself.

[He gestures to his current outfit, having gone for the easiest answer first. The other is more complicated.]

As for my condition, it was not passed through my bloodline, nor was it placed upon me by an individual -- or I don't believe it to have been. No one knows just why it is the twice-cursed are afflicted the way they are. Some say we are damned for having wasted a god's time, while others believe we drew so near to our end that our bodies themselves are trapped somewhere on the precipice of life and death.