the exif are a race of elf-like extraterrestrials that appear in the "godzilla" anime trilogy, a deeply-religious people that possess telepathy and revere king ghidorah as a god after developing a nihilistic outlook that the monster is the eventual demise for worlds whose highly advanced civilizations establish the conditions for ghidorah to appear. after ghidorah destroyed their world, believing it to be their peoples' hubris and envisioning themselves as the monster's emissaries, the remaining exif became nomadic missionaries and traveled to worlds where they hasten a civilization's development so it can destroyed by ghidorah. the exif on the "aratrum" were mostly represented by metphies, who considered haruo sakaki the means to bring ghidorah to earth.