Valdis sighed, "Right before I was summoned here from my own world, I was in the midst of a battle with the Archdemon Lord Amos. He claimed that he was my creator, that it was he who had broken my soul. Then he said he wanted to help, an offer which he followed up with the claim that my power had diminished over the years. Naturally, I tried to kill him for such outrageous insults."

That was perhaps a bit more information than Erskine needed, but she hadn't shared these facts with anyone before.

"He was perhaps correct about my power, but he was lying about having been the creator of my species."

Hopefully he wouldn't notice her deliberate avoidence of the first question.