Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1440804-20140426140602/@comment-4616231-20140428015807

Okay, the wording is key here - if he WAS a Freelancer, he wouldn'tve said "would they have feared me", it would be more likely for him to ask something like "did they fear me" instead. It sounds like people are assuming he just forgot (somehow), but if he did, he would've said "did", because he knows that they either would have feared him, or not feared him. Asking "would" implies he's contemplating a situation that never actually happened.