Random_Person@ Because Compassion isn't equal with "ruthlessly calculated decision". It make You suffer instead of someone else. Sol didn't suffer at all, ergo it wasn't compassionate of him, merely pragmatic.
And I would argue about what(or who) he embodies. Were he be embodying Virtues he would die the first time he breached one of them.
Like i half-joked with Xefas, the Enemy of Carrot the similarities between Sol and Pelor are frightening, for all people believing Sol would have restrains from doing someday Order 66 on Creation.