Hah, the perils of fact-checking on unreliable sites before I posted.
I should've just waited for Raze to appear!
I was also curious about Chez Thingy: either someone decided to create more NPCs just for additional points of interest (something I would do) or she's the product of some of the late design changes which saw FoV not being ready in time for Ego Draconis' release and stuff like the planned outskirts of Aleroth not happening. But that's a complete guess with absolutely no foundation at all.
