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[thats1evildude]

Wouldn't dwarves tend to be white since they live underground?

[Shechinah]

Wouldn't dwarves tend to be white since they live underground?

 

From what I recall, Orzammar is built with a steady magma flow running in a river below the city as visible from the bridge going from near the inner gate to the Proving arena. I don't know. 

 

Didn't most of the Orzammar dwarves tend to be white?
 

[SnakeCode]

No one will squirm. This is not exactly uncommon in media, and you don't see people lining up praising those movies for their pro-social message. You're doing to have go get more sophisticated in your trolling wishes. 

 

I don't troll, try again.

[In Exile]

I don't troll, try again.

I didn't say you trolled. But it clearly sounds like you want people to get trolled.

[nightscrawl]

From what I recall, Orzammar is built with a steady magma flow running in a river below the city as visible from the bridge going from near the inner gate to the Proving arena. I don't know. 

 

Didn't most of the Orzammar dwarves tend to be white?
 

 

In that sense, that absence of color from skin and eyes in subterranean creatures, or deep-sea dwellers, is because of the lack of the sun, not just any light or heat source. Melanin concentrations are due to exposure to the UV radiation from the sun, which is why people in equatorial regions are darker.

 

We know there are darker elves, like Fenris and Zevran, so we can ignore them for now. Dwarves, because of the reasons presented above, are more difficult if we're going to get into discussions of "realism" and not have representation simply for its own sake (which I don't have a problem with; I couldn't care less about "realism").

 

The dwarves have been trading with Tevinter for millennia, and there likely have always been those that have left their subterranean cities for a life on the surface. We can have darker dwarves if there have been sufficient numbers of these surface-dwelling dwarves over the years to make increased production of melanin a thing.

 

Another method would be to have half-breed dwarves; those whose parents are a dwarf and a dark-skinned human or elf. However, Bioware doesn't seem too interested in going this route, and indeed the mixed NPCs that we know of, Alistair, Feynriel, look human, or mostly human.

[panzerwzh]

I would love to see a homosexual NPC named "Milo Yiannopoulos" who bringing balance to the world.

[Gileadan]

I hope they make a race of dark skinned baddies. Let's see people squirm, not knowing whether to praise BW for muh representation or call them racists.

If Resident Evil 5 is anything to go by, there will be very few people praising them for representation.

[Wolven_Soul]

 

Again, I am not big on FR lore, but I thought the original idea of Drizzt was that he was the only good drow, and that was what made him such a hero and unique in the realms. I don't know if there were later lore retcons or Drizzt just didn't know about Ellistrae or what. When were other good drow introduced to canon?

 

No, Drizzt was never the only good drow.  Zaknafein was actually his father.  And his sister Vierna, while never precisely good, showed a few hints that it might have been possible for her to be so if she had not been so fully corrupted by Lloth's influence.  Also, Jarlaxle, while not being good exactly, has never been evil either.  Liriel Baenrae though came later, she was created by a different writer.    

 

I'm thinking that Drizzt might very well have not known of Eilistrae, because when he first arrived at the surface, he never tried to seek her followers out.  He is actually a follower of Mielikki, a human nature Goddess.

 

As the other fellow stated, Eilistrae was there from the beginning because she didn't want the drow to be hopelessly lost to the light. 

[Teddie Sage]

I would love to see a homosexual NPC named "Milo Yiannopoulos" who bringing balance to the world.

Eww, no. 

[nightscrawl]

^ I ignored that post originally since it had nothing to do with the topic. Is there some reference there I'm not getting?

[Teddie Sage]

^ I ignored that post originally since it had nothing to do with the topic. Is there some reference there I'm not getting?

I know this thread is worthy of being classified SJW, but Milo is like the "Queen" of SJWs on the social medias to a point I got annoyed with his posts at some point and blocked him from my feeds. 

[DuskWanderer]

I wouldn't care if all of the people were shaped like starfruit and had lobster cages on their heads. If they were all unique with well-developed and insightful personalities, that would be light years better than the Fill command with MS Paint we've been getting with "diversity." 

 

I thought the whole point of that was to not be judged on the color of the skin or what have you. The SJW's can be seen for what they really are: Passive-aggressive creatures of hate. 

[KBomb]

No one will squirm. This is not exactly uncommon in media, and you don't see people lining up praising those movies for their pro-social message. You're doing to have go get more sophisticated in your trolling wishes.

I don't think he was trying to use troll tactics. Most likely people would be on the fence about it. I remember when Resident Evil 5 came out and a lot of people were happy about Sheva because she was a black protagonist, while many others complained that she wasn't black enough, therefore, it was racist. Loads of people also praised the inclusion of black characters like Josh, but so many people were angry as hell that black people were portrayed as the enemy and thought it was racist to have them as bad guys, allowing white people to shoot them.

It was ridiculous. I think he was referring to that happenig and he would find it an amusing situation. And I have no doubt it would happen, right or wrong.

[Witch Cocktor]

can we get characters with really bad acne as well? because i dont think this need for skin color is about representation anymore, but just '' i want this and that cuz i wanna feel that im included and if u dont include these skin colors on these races it means you think having a dark skin is ugly!!!! ''

 

in terms of Thedas, qunari, dwarves and especially elves can be seen as PoC in terms of our world, no matter what color their skin is. but if you can't identify with characters who face similar problems as PoC do in planet earth just because the color of their skin isn't dark, then that is completely your problem.

 

i'm whatever on the subject, but if we get dark-skinned dwarves and such just because people should feel included, then i want my acne-faced slightly chubby pale hairy gay male characters as well. because i wanna be included as well and no character except someone who is exactly like me will do.

[zeypher]

No, im Indian and i dont really care. I rather they make a proper game rather than pandering to everyone. What is up with people that a game has to have Asians, Blacks, Whites different sexualites etc etc. I rather have a good game i can enjoy and me being a Indian and the game not having one doesnt matter one bit to its enjoyment. 

 

Why does your Race or background matter to a enjoyment of product. Enjoy it for what it is.

 

So i really wish they dont, instead i want them to make the game they want to make rather a focus tested checklist. I want creativity and not focus tested mass appeal beige product.

[zeypher]

I wouldn't care if all of the people were shaped like starfruit and had lobster cages on their heads. If they were all unique with well-developed and insightful personalities, that would be light years better than the Fill command with MS Paint we've been getting with "diversity." 

 

I thought the whole point of that was to not be judged on the color of the skin or what have you. The SJW's can be seen for what they really are: Passive-aggressive creatures of hate. 

Pretty much, the matter of skin and color only seems to matter to these so called progressives. Instead if they really were progressive then race and their color would not even play a part in their enjoyment of any product.

 

In the end adding just adding some race or color wont make a game good. The only thing that makes a game good is if the game is good.