The difference between the background on your first post and your last iteration shows a marked improvement, but you know, as you have improved the background I feel another issue has arisen in that the detailing and in the background no longer matches the detailing on your character. I know this post was related to your background, but since you seem to have nailed it pretty well, I thought to just make the definitions on your character a bit stronger.
Just some highlighting here and there, such as the cloth, embossing the dragon crest into the shield, giving the thing between his legs a different color to help the contrast between the other cloth. I have stuck to the colors you used asides from the sword, and edging of the shield where I had to introduce more shades of grey to try get that metal look.
The light blue highlighting on the cloth could be improved my using a new color, or more.
The clouds you had on your firsts post, I sort of liked them, perhaps you could try to bring them back over the sky you have, but not so many clouds?.. worth a try.
Well anyway just a few ideas you might consider to make the character sit better on your by now pretty darn sweet background... keep it up