Update: Latest rumor shows casting for a white Ciri | Original: Netflix looking for non-white actress to play Ciri in the Witcher tv series

[DonFerrari]

HoloDust said:

Machiavellian said:

Would it really matter if the people Ciri came from was not white.  In other words, in a fiction story like the Witcher, its not beholden to our ideas what a dark skinned person is.  Let say they make Ciri black and the blackest person they could find.  If they changed her people to being black, but kept everything the same as far as her people's heritage, would it really make a difference.  The difference is that you would view Ciri as black but not based on the book and it's lore but instead what your ideal of what a black person is  This is really what people are arguing about.  I see Ciri as white and I can identify with that.  You change her complexion to black or anything else then I have to identify with what I see as black, Asian, hispanic etc.  I believe your points are more on an identify issue then a one of complexion. 

They can do that - that is, make whole Cintra non-white. As I explained several times already in the thread, they then need to change pretty much every kingdom south of Cintra as well, cause geographically it would make zero sense for them to remain white. Which not only changes lore quite a bit, but makes main bad guys, Niflgaardians, non-white as well - and I don't think that would be quite welcomed in this political climate.

There was quite elegant solution if they just had to mess with what is fantasy world built heavily on European history and traditions (and I understand that non-Europeans might have harder time realizing that), by including some characters from either Zerrikania or Ofir - I'd say Zerrikania with their Golden Dragon roots might be more interesting choice, but Ofir with their mix of Ottoman and North African culture would be great as well.

Not sure why the geography (South/North) would really be impacted. When you are bellow the equator the more north you are more sun there is and darker skins, the more south you are less sun and lighter your skin.

Also in their world North and South could be reversed (as our N/S also reverse every so many mileniums), their planet could rotate in the opposite direction, etc. I don't see any problem in geography that would prevent this change. There the sun could even circle north to south (or reverse) and then skin color change from east to west.

But please elaborate in the geographical limitations (because if they decide to make all Cintra a specific race that isn't white, they can make the same to all other races and change their races and still make sense).