User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-92.20.233.129-20140323010058/@comment-4616231-20140401194801

If he was a freelancer that was important at all we would've seen him during the backstory. Because if he is, the question becomes why we DIDN'T see him during the backstory, and they already told us the backstory is over so there's no chance they would go back and retcon him in. So no. He's not.