well....
I must offer a few points in rebuttal
1) varen goes through all this ON HIS OWN (with the exception of travels with nat)
2) the "nope" guy has a party with him.
but those are beside the point.
my point is that Varen evokes the same feel as that mentality.
and lets face it
EVERY knight, paladin, andLG paragon fightershould evoke that mentality and feeling.
I try with Gideon (the guy who lost his horse) but I feel he comes off to the party as "bull-headed" as opposed to "epically determined"
but oh well.
his time will come.
/ramble.