"Oh yes, sir, I’m completely reformed. I’ve learned my lesson, m’lord. Honest Rickard, that’s what they’ll be calling me from now on, strewth."
- —Anonymous Ex-Convict[1a]
Ex-Convict
Ex-Convicts are those criminals within Human society that have managed to reform themselves back into law-abiding citizens. The prisons of the Old World are brutal sub-realms unto themselves where only the strong and ruthless survive. Of the few convicts who do live through their sentences, most return to society as harder criminals than before they entered prison. The Shallyan might preach about forgiveness and second-chances, but the truth is that the rare ex-convict who does manage to reform is met with the same suspicion and resentment as those who do not. In the end, most ex-convicts are released into an unreceptive world with few opportunities other than to commit new crimes, return to prison and begin the cycle anew.[1a]