It would be nice to run into them questing and doing tasks etc. Hopefully they lock out the names of these Icons so we don't have 300 Merisiel's ingame..However this would increase your chances for romance by those 300 or so players using her name..lol
Being a PvP sandbox and not another PvE themepark, i would like to see the first 5 minutes of content involve 100% of the NPC's that are more than grunt labor, or ambiance objects.