When you finish the second stage of the coliseum you have the option to spare the guy and have him join you, but he doesn't join as a champion he joins as a standard unit with no equipment.
I had the same bug with another hero that sent me to get the staff of fire (or something like that).
We can't equip them, because for the game they're just units, not champions. And if they die, they're lost.
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