>>712890247He was covered in bandages because the royal torturer took away bits of his skin to sadistically expose the nerves. Did that for a full year, skinning him alive. That and all the stuff about cutting his tendons to turn him into a living harmless doll.
In retrospect Griffith wasn't fully responsible for what happens with the eclipse, there's also all the brainfucking manipulation by the god hands that happened prior to making the deal.