Dolen was never only just an adviser, he was and had been for a long time part of a group of information gathers and sellers, the mist. He had acted as an advisor for the count simply because he was bored and being there provided him something to do all day long.
Within the past year, Aldin had emerged when some noble began asking around for him. Many tried to dig it up but nothing was ever found out, there were no trails to be followed which really raised a lot of attention. Unbelievable tales began to surface around about him, each one more unbelievable than the one before it, it soon became a joke, but then he disappeared immediately after leaving the academy and with that, the appearance of the grey-haired man, Aldin who they could never recognise, who was of unknown origin appeared. There was someone or something hiding ALdin and nobody could point it out. The mist was trying to get information on him but nothing would be found.