She is a wine connoisseur and has a collection of finely aged wines in the cellar of the Wolfenstein keep. She became a tomb raider, traveling all over the world, to places like Egypt, South America, India, and Tanganyika. In 1934, she started an enterprise of treasure hunting and occult research. Toward the end of her studies, her heartbroken mother died suddenly, and she was left with a huge inheritance and the keys to Castle Wolfenstein. Later that same year she left home to study history at the University of Vienna. The situation at home deteriorated, After a devastating row with her stepfather, she manipulated her younger brother into murdering him. Helga reacted by immersing herself in studying early German history, slowly gravitating towards Romanticism and nationalism. Her mother remarried a year later, with a man whom Helga disliked. It was Helga who found him dead in the kitchen, with a gunshot wound to the head. Gregory hanged himself after wasting the family's fortune. Her mother's negligence and cold emotional distance during this traumatic time left deep scars inside Helga, compounded later by her father, Gregory von Schabb's suicide in 1917. All of this ended when she contracted polio at 7, leaving her with a disabled left leg. Her youth was spent at the family estate, playing in the forests and pretending to go on incredible adventures. Born in 1908, the 38 year old Helga is a descendant of German nobility, straight from King Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor.
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