Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.
Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.
Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.