Are these sentences worded in the best way?

FYI- Stedd is the boy. The enormous lion revealed himself to be Nobanion, the lion lord of Gulthandor, and commanded the pride of lions to stop their attack on the Thayan camp. After thanking Stedd for healing him, Nobanion told the boy, Anton, and Umara how he had been afflicted by the blue fires of the Spellplague, and being in that weakened state had allowed him to be magically enslaved by the god Malar, the Beastlord