Pretender changed form?

[yurec]

Hi all,

I'm new to Dominions and played a few SP games. In my last game, I was playing as Pangaea Lord of the wild. I was pushing AI slowly and was trying various things (forging items, trying various spells etc.). At some time, my pretender became horror marked. That was not a big problem, as he had good items and hp boost from dominion. But once, he was attacked by Eater of gods, and immediately after this, by large enemy army.

Now the strange thing: in battle against Eater, everything was good, and pretender won. In battle against enemy army, my pretender appeared as very weak, very old (6xx years) Legionnaire, was killed. What happened to him? Is it some kind of curse from horror, or bug?

I called him back, and he is still legionnaire. What's worse, now he can't fight back horrors (and he must have a lot of horror marks, because horrors come very often).

Another question, is there any way to get rid of horror marks, curse or insanity?