[quote=@AtomicNut]
<Snipped quote by Lord Szall>

Replace dark with Light, demon with spirit, and warlock with gentle mage understudy. To be fair, your character is more likely to appear as enemy than as proper character, and this is high fantasy. 

Pardon my bluntness but today I'm not in the mood of mincing things. Also pardon my intrusion.
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Even in high fantasy, the hero's allies can consist of a scoundrel, and that is exactly how I've written him to be. Avoiding any kind of dark backstory is the same as pretending there isn't anything dark in this world at all. What if the scoundrel, as a knight of the Kingdom, begins to see the error of his ways and aim to make amends for his past sins? I have left it open to interpretation, that doesn't automatically mean he is evil.