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Wow, you sure miss a lot when you don't go online for a few weeks (Wizards, Paizo, Pathfinder, etc)
As the elf in question, here's the rest of the story: My elf was pure CG, he ignored or worked around given orders almost all the time, but always to do what he saw as beneficial to the greatest number of people (and usually without anyone knowing that he hadn't 'followed orders'). He also had the following feats from the Quintessential Elf 2- Star's Child, Star's Hope, and Star's Destiny, and he had the 'Chosen' character concept from the Quintessential Elf 1.
We were in the middle of an epic campaign (epic story, not epic level). The reclusive elven nations had been convinced to take part in a large scale war and were put under the 'command' of the paladin, who broke them up into smaller fighting units and put them under the command of the rest of the PC's.
After the war, with heavy elven losses, I had all the elves set up camp slightly separate from the other races, and when any non-elves entered the camp, the were very politely asked to leave- including another PC (half-giant) who had led a contingent of archers, but due to some bad rolls, he lost most of them and by the end of the battle, they hated him and blamed him for their losses. At the time, my character had the point of view that there was no one there to 'take care' of his people, so he appointed himself to the position. After I had taken care of everyone as much as possible, I waited for the star's to start coming out, then started to lead the 'Song of Mourning'.
When the paladin realized that one of his appointed 'commanders' (the half-giant) had not been allowed to camp with his troops, he got pissed! Right in the middle of the 'Song of Mourning' the paladin storms into the elven camp and starts yelling orders and calling the half-giant's troops to attention.
I told the elves to keep singing and tried to lead the paladin away for a talk. He got mad at me for 'shaming' him in front of the troops, warned me of 'consequences' to follow in the morning, then left- without allowing me ANY type of explanation.
Because I, as the elf, was worried where this could be heading, during the night I asked all the elves remaining (338) if they would like to stay with the army, or go home. Due in part to the paladin's outburst, 118 decided to leave, and I helped them go for fear of what might happen if they got caught. For the rest of the night, I talked with all the remaining elves about what could happen in the morning (I thought sentencing, punishment, maybe even imprisonment at WORST) and stressed that there was to be NO violence. If they HAD to fight, it was only to be for self-defense. (The last thing I wanted at this point in 'world-events' was for a race war to start and let the evil forces just walk across each army piecemeal.)
When morning came, the paladin was informed that a large portion of the elven army had disappeared. He then gathered his subcommanders and came to the elven camp.
I was waiting for him in my tent, wearing ONLY a travelers' outfit. When he entered, I rose to my feet, and he proceeded to stalk around me and declare all of my 'offenses'. When he was finished, he gave a 5 second pause, and when no one said anything, he demanded I go to my knees. When I didn't respond, he said “So be it.”, drew his sword, and swung- I took no action because I didn't want a race war to break out. Because I took no action, the DM (Zealot) ruled it a coup-de-grace.
Everything I did was in the interest of Role-Playing (my character is built around RP to the point of sacrificing in-game skills and abilities) and while I knew (as a player) that some of the things I was doing may not have been a good idea, I was playing my character, and I was still careful to keep everything 'fixable' with some fun role-playing.