User blog comment:Aretain King/The Seven Kingdoms and War/@comment-644222-20160211000226/@comment-7263041-20160211021917

My 'opinion' is that it was reconned. I never said it was retconned, but it makes more sense if it is. Look at the short story 'lords of his pack' he appears very prideful, sure of Gilneas's superiority, but he doesn't come off as a hostile jerk.

Compare that to the way he acts in Day of the Dragon, openly hostile, using threats as you yourself have mentioned earlier. The RPG before it was declared non-canon had him being extremely aggressive toward Terenas, yet again in Lords of his Pack he is much more calm and collected about his decision to wall off Gilneas.

His character was changed from being a stand-off jerk, as he is earlier represented, to being a prideful, self-reliant ruler. They may seem similar, but they have key differences.