How did I know what this post was going to be about before I even opened it. Unique looking NPCs has been a thing forever. You can't look like Estenien, you can't look like Urianger (you can get his hair but not exactly enough), you can't look like Y'shtola, or even Wuk Lamat, Yugiri, Hein, Aymeric, Rauhbahn, the Seedseer lady whose name I can never remember, and the list goes on and on and on. The main NPC ally of a new raid series having a unique look is normal. Case in point the last three expansions before DT where the main npc ally in the raid series had a unique look.