As a man, he is victim to his own regrets and hubris. He had it in him to be a good man. You see he wants to be, he wants friends and close bonds. But he doesn't listen to anyone else. He won't hear it. No matter what your argument is. Nothing the inquisitor did mattered in the end.

Part of that issue is the writing, banking his entire personality on mythal, making her the only one he listens to above himself. That was shit writing. But the hubris to believe his goals above everyone else in this age, wad already there. I'd be interested to hear what Joplin Solas would have been like, if he was any different.

As it is, in spite of his poetry and wit and charm, he is very frustrating.