I take you at face value that it was the character and not you being grudge-y. As such, it sounds like you played good neutral Maran as you should, and I played good orderly Tribunal as I should.

You might want to work on your framing a bit better. Like, 'you waltz in' and 'set you against Bynna', it muddies the water on who had the grudge. But it's ok!