I didn't know the character well, though I have fought him. However, when you are a paladin, you can't help but compare yourself with other paladins to see if you are doing things right. When you see some of what double-virtued paladins get away with (e.g. killing elite dwarven guards for gear) when you avoid this stuff, it does start to make you bitter.

I know when I played my paladin I played him as I really believed a paladin would be. I ended up with no kills (my only 0% pk ratio character). My enemies ran usually except for those with arcanes that kicked my butt. It really began to get to me that maybe I wasn't making it as a maran because I wasn't sealing kills. Meanwhile those ganging were being made marans. But to me, even a maran paladin shouldn't throw honor totally out of the window.

Anyway, I completely sympathise with anyone who plays a paladin and is disappointed if they get no virtues. Mine was definitely a real let-down in my eyes. When you are the only paladin in a range of 6 arcanes that doesn't have champion's stand, you start to feel like you must be a crap one, and that's no fun.