Fate doesn't seem to have much in store for him, in the days leading up to the siege, though he does happen to have a very strong urge to visit a drain, by the city walls, one night, arriving just in time to 'see' an invisible creature crawl out of the ditch, and hurry into the city, a black-clad hobgoblin, looking very lean and powerful, and carrying a wide assortment of exotic-looking weapons.