Delete/Delete is the players decision. Some people have tougher skin and more determination with regards to their character than others. There are people that lose one part of their set and they delete. As if every moment up until they got that piece of equipment was a waste of their time. If everyone gets mollycoddled over their own subjective pet peeves that push them delete this game will be much less fun in an awful hurry. In this particular case I think that a mistake was made, and that was just taking kinship without an explanation or even word of mention. A quick 'Hey we just removed kinship because you weren't supposed to get it back. It was an issue with the title change, but it is fixed now. You weren't supposed to get it back." would have told the player that oh, hey, the imms don't actually think the dwarves are back on my side. It likely would have tempered many of the other complaints as well.

Still, delete delete was not the only choice. Not long ago I was thinking of playing an odd race/align hook, going outside of the normal align perameters for the race. I sent a note to the imms and waited. Someone talked to me about it and explained up front that if I did this I would get the betrayer flag and wouldn't have access to weapon specs or legacies. They also said that while possible there would be no guarantee that I ever do get them. I was very tempted to play it anyway, just because the concept was so fun. When I have a bit more experience under my belt I intend to revisit the character, even if it turns out to be an up hill climb for their entire life. There were some great characters that started out as betrayer and worked their way back to their core class powers. It was the gnome fort ranger that gave me the inspiration to go off the map in the first place. It's not as easy as just rolling up another, I'll admit, but that is the cost of being so unique.

Besides, the imms gave plenty of warning in this circumstance. It wasn't just an "Oh this guy killed some dwarves, alright lets load up the bum rape cannon", they gave many in character warnings that the dwarves that he was killing didn't think it was right that one of their kinsmen was brining death to their door.

Edit: Typo in the subject.