[Well lucky you Darin, he's pissed off enough that screw it. He'll go ahead and give the whole ugly as hell truth of what he is.]

A copy of a long forgotten war hero made by alchemy who was given a curse through a magical bullet. More alchemy most likely. Said curse turned me into the inhuman freak you know very well. We were created to be summoned to battle against creatures too powerful for most humans to fight and most humans can't even see.

So that's what you saved. Someone who is completely replaceable. If I die, they'll just make another. That's what they've been doing for centuries now.