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[TK514]

It's also distinctly possible that their skin pigmentation is not caused by melanin.  It could simply be a result of long-term chemical exposure.  They live around lava pools and lyrium radiation, after all.

I thought something similar. Orzammar host, along with its natives, the surviving descendants of several Great Thaigs. Each could have been exposed to differing environmental factors from radiation to chemicals in the food supply, that gave rise to varying skin pigments. These could have been passed on to their children, and interbreeding did the rest.

[Xerxes52]

It's all based off the color of rocks they are born from. If they hatch from a dark rock their skin is dark. From a light, they have light skin.

It's just like how blue rocks hatch into boys and pink rocks hatch into girls.

This right here.

[Rotward]

They evolved on the surface, but they kept falling into the sky, so they moved underground.

 

You didn't believe them, did you! Damn skeptics. 

[Mirrman70]

I want a black dwarf with a mohawk as an easter egg to Gauntlet Dark Legacy.

[Senya]

Customization, I think. My best friend made a black Cousland to better identify with the character, but Bryce and Eleanor remained white so, your mileage may vary. Personally, I think it doesn't make sense for any Dwarves in Orzammar to be tanned since they pend their whole lives underground, but it doesn't bother me much. I don't play fantasy games for 100% realism.

[Lurklen]

 You may as well ask why the dwarves have developed almost no adaptations to living under ground. Most subterranean dwelling creatures have the ability to see in the dark or otherwise sense their environment in low or no light conditions or conversely are blind because their eyes became useless. They also usually have some kind of natural ability to move dirt around in order to live under ground and eat things like worms, how the hell did dwarves even figure out torches without wood? Or fire for that matter? I suppose magma could provide light before it kills you horribly in a number of ways. But they still never really had anything to burn so I'm not sure how they discovered fire let alone superior forging techniques.

 

 Unless they didn't start under ground but were originally a surface dwelling race that for some reason migrated under ground and then adapted(slightly) to that environment and it just happened so long ago that none of them remember. Which would explain everything. Really dwarves should be blind, pigment less, whiskered mole people with large claw appendages and an aversion to bright lights and big spaces. But that would be horrifyingly ugly and would have been a big let down when it came time for the big hero moments of DAO.

[LPPrince]

Dwarves are not humans. Perhaps for dwarves skin pigmentation is based on other factors. Don't think too hard on it, its fantasy. Some things have to be overlooked and not taken too seriously, given the fact its fiction.

[Nuloen]

 Unless they didn't start under ground but were originally a surface dwelling race that for some reason migrated under ground and then adapted(slightly) to that environment and it just happened so long ago that none of them remember. Which would explain everything. Really dwarves should be blind, pigment less, whiskered mole people with large claw appendages and an aversion to bright lights and big spaces. But that would be horrifyingly ugly and would have been a big let down when it came time for the big hero moments of DAO.

They are dwarves not Glum
they adapted to mining by getting smaller
And they dont have to see in dark if they use torches since they get underground

[Natashina]

As the stone varies in luster, so must the dwarves.

I personally thought this was best answer in the thread.  

[Fifth Fleet Out]

Who says the dwarves have always been underground? 

[TheJediSaint]

As the stone varies in luster, so must the dwarves.

 

 

I personally thought this was best answer in the thread.  

 

Agreed.  You could say it rocks, in fact.

[Peer of the Empire]

Wait dwarves come from rocks

 

 

I'll leave that to the scientists.  Such as they are in Thedas

[Brass_Buckles]

Does there need to be a reason?

 

David Gaider once told me in a post where I asked about, if the descendants of a human/elf pairing kept having children would they always be human or would they eventually be elves, that in Thedas genetics are basically a nonfactor.

 

Much as I'd like to get all scientific with the rest of you and talk about evolution and how light influences skin tone, I think the real reason that there are some pale dwarves and some dark dwarves (and likewise with humans and elves) in Thedas is simply:  Because there are.  It's likely they came from different areas, at the very least, though whether any of them were surface dwarves at any time is not known.

 

Do we really need a scientific reason to include various skin tones?  I think it's just nice that variety exists and people can make a character look however they like--even like themselves, if they want.

[JoltDealer]

Genetic diversity would still happen regardless of sunlight.  There just wouldn't be any evolutionary advantage to different colored skin underground.

[EmperorSahlertz]

The real question would be, why has a race that supposedly evolved underground, in utter darkness, ever developed eyes.

[Mihura]

The real question would be, why has a race that supposedly evolved underground, in utter darkness, ever developed eyes.

 

Exactly, if you do see the sun that much I doubt their race even looked like that. I would say the Falmer from Skyrim was a more accurate representation of living underground. 

[DarthSideus2]

This.  (I agree with Brass_Buckles earlier post on this subject).

[Cespar]

Well some dwarves probably works close to the lava, so that could have a effect on their skin tone. Also dwarves probably were originally on the surface and migrated underground. We don't see many dark skin dwarves around Orzammar, but I plan on being one in DA:I.