A Question of Freedom

Dainen, and the men of his nemesis' company, are all tainted by an alien power that binds them to the king. This power is essentially the essence of a pair of opposed near omnipotent beings that crashed to earth from the heavens where they warred more than a thousand years in the past. Immortal an unable to die, their remains taint many of the vital natural and magical flows that lace the ground beneath the lands of this story. The power itself is alive, though only a fragment of the previous beings. Antithetical to its opposite number, it's goal is to recreate itself through the bodies of mortal followers and to seek the destruction of that other power. These were the gods of the warring nations who died in fire and upon whose ashes the current neighboring lands are built.

The entity within him was weakened nearly to the point of destruction by exposure to the power of its opposite, which is what has allowed him to escape.