I wasn't exactly sure how faction wofked when I posted this thread thanks for clearing it up.
Based on these posts AoN and skeleton form were changed to no longer alter the race the NPC used when calculating your consider. Seems they applied this to all NPC illusions later down the line. It wasn't documented in patch notes unfortunately so we have no idea when during 2001 it was changed.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...99320270230581
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/f...00580524559602
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/f...00365200477834