Guild Wars 2

You can get your Charr to do this by re-sheathing your weapon, don’t think there is a default key for this but you can set one up on the keybinds part of the options.

The only way I can think of is to set up a keybind to toggle walking and see if that works.

I have noticed this as well in the human starting areas. What you can do is go to one of the other starter areas, you can reach them by going to Lions Arch and then going through one of the portals to one of the other races home city. Hope this is of some help.