Quote Originally Posted by Limonia View Post
Oh, I always thought his Exarch model is based on a Hyur, because he has those default Hyur animations.
I can't comment on the animations from memory, though I don't remember him doing anything I recognised as a Hyur emote, but it's possible they just used custom animations for him like they did for Emet-Selch. (I didn't even realise until I looked up the character data that Emet uses an Elezen base - kind of obvious in hindsight from the proportions, but he doesn't pose like one and I don't think he used any of their standard emotes. Not the obvious ones anyway.)

Anyway, the Exarch is definitely a Miqo'te NPC even if you can't see it. You can look up his character data to confirm it (spoiler), and none of the other human-proportioned male character models are that short.