[How could he not hold a grudge against those that so naively released the evil that slew his grandfather and then refused to truly take responsibility for it? To him that had always seemed a terrible dereliction of duty on their part.]
They are not men, though, nor even elves like I am. I doubt they'd take such advise to heart.

Nothing I would not have done even had no reward been offered. [He says cassualy.] I helped capture two fire lizards, I helped safeguard a nest of sea turtles and I helped rescue some children that had been taken by some sort of twisted spider creature. [Hardly anything he'd call an indignity. Especially on the part of fighting that twisted spider creature.]