Near enough, though few were those with sight enough to know it. The Sundering washed out souls until they were near transparent in comparison, and yet even then some scrap of color persisted.

[That liquid gold looks the Exarch over once more, before the man shrugs.]

Of course, in those of the Source now, the correlation is far from perfect. Genetics plays a far greater role for you than it did for us, who could use our own aether to reshape our bodies.

[Which explains at least how it is that he had a Garlean form in the First, but mortals are indeed far more limited by their flesh. Just another of the things that he finds sad about them, really.]