"Her father and my uncle, Lieutenant Heinrich Volker, sadly passed away when she was six, and I was just born. He was sent to North America to help stabilize the situation after the U.S. Balkanized. Sadly, he was one of 600 Prussian soldiers who died in the peacekeeping operation."

"And my mother died in childbirth, so the Kaiser adopted me as his own." Blake finished, shrugging. "I don't carry the name Richthofen though, since I'm not technically his daughter. He insists that I carry his name, but I kept my last name to honor my dad."