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Do remember to factor in that Sarevok, I feel, is a more creative, somewhat more intelligent person than Irenicus. The plot of BG is more or less all down to Sarevok, after all... from the first attempt on your life all the way to the final showdown at the palace, it's all been a plan within a plan within a plan. Sarevok double-crosses, schemes, plots and connives, making up for his deficiencies with sheer cunning. Sarevok seems much more 'evil', not caring who lives or dies, loving no-one and nothing, living for his own goals, willing to sacrifice an entire continent to elevate himself to godhood.
Irenicus, by contrast, seems to have been something of an opportunist, and rather easily led by his sister. After his banishment, he grows colder and colder, thinking about a way to restore what he has lost, losing what is left of his personality in a frantic search to avoid the curse upon him. You could almost pity the man he was for what he has become. But his plots seem to be those of an amateur villain, taking things for granted and never thinking things through.
Tancred
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