Not a man at all, but a spirit - a dark one that was only partially mortal, at that. The Ring-Spirit is hardly ashamed of his unholy status though, if Dion were to ask outright.

For now, the Ring-Spirit merely makes a noise of agreement at Dion's warning. "This is an awful lot of people to have all suffered the same fate..." ...as himself, he doesn't say yet, but it's implied. (He might be making some assumptions about the sort of death Dion had faced, which is quite rude of him, considering!)