Well, chances were you would need it, at least. You were given a random selection of trials every time you attempted the initiation, so you could randomly not get the “No man can defeat me” guy.

Also, the makeover mage (who themselves swapped between male and female every few seconds, because of you have magic powers, why not have fun with it?) only let you change your sex and skin color. To change your hair you needed to go to the hairdresser and to change your default clothes you needed to go to the clothes store.