It was always pretty obvious the characters in Guild Wars were tweaked to visually appeal to both Western and Korean tastes. What’s interesting is that the NCSoft guys had to tell ArenaNet to do that - originally their warriors were Conan types rather than the slightly softer look they now have. More detail in this interesting Making of Guild Wars video. Some of it’s in Korean but there’s plenty of interesting detail in English still. Just click the big green button.