Heh, I wouldn't call Royce a brilliant commander, or particularly intelligent, and it sounds like Kane [i]wants[/i] to be a hero of the common folk. Their fighting styles and abilities are very different, as well as their circumstances and backstories. I can elaborate on points of his personality, but I think that taking a lot of those other broad points out would just take the character in a direction I don't want to take him. Making him a terrible commander, or making him not care about his men... I could maybe make the common folk hate him for some reason.

Otherwise, the character might just have to be scrapped and I can do something else. I'd rather not rip the soul out of a character because in some broad ways he's similar to another. The main similarity is that they're both knights (well, kind of in Kane's case) and they're both not assholes.