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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnthonyJ" data-source="post: 1312925" data-attributes="member: 13807">The character probably immediately registers as evil (or tainted by evil) on spells that detect evil, as he's tainted by demonic power.  However, a proper Atonement effort should allow reclaiming his soul.  Possibly just a Remove Curse, depending on what you feel the actual effect being used by the Erinys was.The first time he sacrifices anyone to his patron, he has now made a conscious choice towards evil, and should probably detect as not only tainted by evil, but actually evil.  This is equivalent to the situation for lycanthropy, where the first time you deliberately take on lycanthropic form you acquire the alignment of the lycanthrope.At such point as he completes 'buying' his soul back, he has effectively completely a quest associated with alignment change, and a quest of similar magnitude will be required to atone.Incidentally, if he completes his 'buy his soul back' quest, he'll almost certainly be offered additional benefits if he just keeps that dagger and keeps up the 'good' work <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>