Nophica Better Not Be a Tree

[Carin-Eri]

All joking aside, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she were a tree.

It might be that they choose to take the Yggdrasil route with her and she follows a Dragonquest style design - certainly what we've seen so far does look a little like it was inspired by it:
Yggdrasil, Dragonquest XI:



And Yggdrasil in Dragonquest IX was godess (Celestria) who'd once had a humanoid form but took the form of a tree.