Quote Originally Posted by Rosenstrauch View Post
It's not some lore thing. Every Ascian uses a player model and animation rig—usually they're Midlanders, though Loghrif is a Highlander. Even Emet-Selch is on a technical level just an Elezen with a unique head, like quite a lot of Garleans (and Merlwyb).
Merlwyb is definitely using a Roegadyn model now, but I assume she would have been a modified Elezen in 1.0 when the female Roegadyn model didn't exist yet.



Quote Originally Posted by Mimilu View Post
For me, I would like to have a face like hers. It just has so much character to it and, for me, it has a nice balance of being stylized and real-ish textures.
Maybe they could get Tetsuya Nomura to design some faces/facial features for players to use in the character creator.
Personal taste of course, but I think her face proportions look really off. It's like they tried to replicate the concept art exactly instead of treating it as an art style difference and basing her more on normal Hyuran proportions even if they want to make her face unique.