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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 4566290" data-attributes="member: 35788">This is off-topic, but since English is not your native tongue I mean this in a spirit of helpful advice.  I also thought your reply was rude ... but it wasn't your question to the poster.  It was the "Back on topic, please."  That wreaks of sarcasm, and it is a phrase that around here normally means something along the following lines: "Your post is irrelevant to my purposes."  My guess is that you didn't mean that, but it is often how it is interpreted.  Part of the problem with posting online is that tone and inflection aren't heard.  As a reader, though, I do appreciate your apology and appreciate that you may not have meant how the words were read.Back on Topic:I have always understood the word Repent as coming out of the Hebrew tongue and literally meaning "turn around."  So, if I am walkin down the street, forget something, and turn around then I have literally "repented of my course of action to take another one."  So no, one need not turn good to repent.  One merely needs to change direction to a new direction.  One can repent from evil to good.  One can repent from good to evil.  One can certainly also repent from one kind of evil to another kind of evil.As to the flavor, nice character.  One thought, though.  If in his previous life he was evil and obviouslynow has a second chance ... why not have him weep hopefully in that his victims might also get the second chance that he had?  [Obviously not outsiders ... but anything of the Prime Material Plane should qualify for the same second chance as the character received, no?]</blockquote>

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