Where the Heart of Anti-Shurtugal Rises Again.

For sure! Sloan just wanted to protect his daughter. And maybe he's a jerk around town or whatever, so what? Sloan's portrayal was so heavily weighted to his threat to Eragon and Saphira. He and almost no one else would have any way of knowing the narrative had put him on the "wrong" side of things. If I recall, Eragon didn't even have the altruism to flee with Saphira, she took him away in a panic.