Sorry about the clumsy title, but I don't remember the NPC's name that gave me the quest as I had never seen her before in three previous play-throughs.
I was basically just running around lower city (somewhere south of the Wine Festival IIRC) and didn't even have the camera on the party when suddenly an encounter with a group of watchmen (Fists?) triggered. Some woman wanted to challenge me to a fight for letting Duke Ravenguard die. When I persuaded her to not attack, she basically gave me the same lines of dialogue re Ansur that I would usually get from the Duke after I had rescued him from the Iron Throne.
I didn't do anything differently re the Duke than on my other play-throughs - except this time I had Wyll in the party when visiting the coronation and talking to Mizora after the ceremony.
I still made him break the pact then told him we'd still be able to rescue his father anyway.
Interestingly enough, when I talked to Wyll and Mizora at camp after the encounter with that NPC-woman, Mizora would sort of admit that she told that NPC-woman that I had let Ravenguard "die".
Minor bug/glitch re the writing is that someone (I think Wyll) claims that Counselor Florrick had told the party about Ansur - and she is still imprisoned in Wyrm's Rock for all I know (haven't done her rescue yet).
So, is that encounter with the city-watch group and being able to get the info on Ansur "early" a new thing or did it simply never trigger for me before because I never had Wyll in my party during previous play-throughs?
S.
