| sundin13 said: Part 3: Yeah, but why? Why do they have to be white skinned? |
I've just explained that in few posts above - she doesn't have to be white. But if you change her skin, you're changing whole Cintra, which changes lore. Which could be sort of fine, in theory...except, Cintra is located where it is and there's about zero logical sense for that. Technically, you can start changing kingdoms south of Cintra as well, changing the lore even more...until you get all the way to Nilfgaard...which is white...so you have to change them as well, breaking the lore even more. Now, as a side effect, you have main evil guys in Witcher being non-white...oh dear.
As I said already, there is reason why you don't pull shit like this - Witcher is based on Medieval Europe, with rich lore taken from it:
Nilfgaard mostly resembles Holy Roman Empire under Habsburgs.
Redania is most likely Prussia.
Temeria is argued to be Polland itself.
Novigrad is Gdansk/Danzig.
Toussaint resembles Southern France mixed with Tuscany.
Skellige is mix of Nordic and Celtic culture (it is located across the sea northwest of Cintra).
Then you have:
Zerrikania (to the southeast of Temeria, long way across Korath Desert) seems most likely as mix of Persia and India.
Ofir (way south of Nilfgaard) which mostly resembles Ottomans mixed with Northern Africa.
Smart move would be to build on Witcher lore.
For example, there are Ofiri merchants in Witcher 3....would love to see more, there's even fan based concept Sands of Ofir as expansion - CDPR are crazy not to do it IMO, but I can understand they have their hand full with 2077. (maybe Obsidian can do it, wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
Two Zerrikanian women (Tea and Vea) are escorting Villentretenmerth, only currently known Golden Dragon (morphed into human known as Borch Three Jackdaws so he can travel unnoticed). It is said Zerrikanian women are best archers in the world. Plus Zerrikania got its name from famous Golden Dragon, Zerrikanterment...love, love, love to see more of that.
There is absolutely no reason not to add something similar to the show.
In the end you CAN take liberties with some of the lore. But changing fundamental stuff such as Ciri will break it. And that is not Witcher anymore.
And if one does not undertands this and is in camp of "so what?", "affirmative action is more importnat", "let me explain it to you from my holier than thou high horse", than I suggest one should seek another fantasy realm, since one obviously doesn't care for Witcher at all.
