"It's unlikely we'll get Mhenlo as a hero in Pre because he's an NPC there"

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I see this sentence in a lot of comments.

Am I missing something ? The game already has a way to handle this situation.

And if the hero needs to be unavailable during certain parts of the campaign it's already handled too (Koss is temporarily unavailable for story reasons in Nightfall).