What, are you saying you wouldn't describe a person as having "fair hair, with ashen-white perspective and large impetuous green eyes"?!

Edit; Ciri's parents

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Emhyr_var_Emreis

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Pavetta

Not very likely that Ciri would somehow be dark-skinned or Asian looking.

Yeah,what a real backlash.

hmm..this is pretty strange, let's see what Netflix will say.

I'm aware that it's something that has been happening for decades and I certainly don't support it.

Regarding Exodus, I honestly didn't watch it nor did I hear anything about the casting in its time but if it's guilty of the same BS as God of Egypt I would certainly object to that movie as well.

Identity-left? I dunno, but there has been a surge of different ideas from the left and a new presentation for old ones, just as with the right. Not sure I'd call it alt-left though, they're fairly open about their rather heavy left-ness (yay for words).

It's like casting the Black Panther as a white dude.

Black Panther's parents are black, and from a country of black people? Oh, no no! You see his white parents just happened to have immigrated to Wakanda, and then became royalty! 

Ciri is supposed to be Scandinavian? Nope! She's black now! You see there was a 0.00000000000000001% chance of a black family migrating to Europe, being accepted by the locals, and becoming Nobles. But we're going to ask the audience to believe it!

This is just my perspective, but I always kind of assumed that "complexion" in literature was usually referred to like the physical health or condition of someone's skin? Like for instance, recently I didn't sleep for like 36 hours straight, and I had a white "complexion". I am white, but you can have a white complexion and be black, or at least that's what I thought.

Ironically, the definition is supposedly the natural skin color of someone specifically. From Google : "the natural color, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face." But I have seen it used many times to describe a face as pale. 

Who knows. I live in the land of the "pasty-white, green-haired crazy identity left" and "backslick, pompous, pretend-to not be fascist right", so I have a certain amount of dislike for extreme views, one or the other.

In this instance, I take no issue with the wish for diversity, but the fact that it appears to be diversity simply for its own sake and it completely collides with the setting and canon as the character in question has two very famous and important, and very white, parents.

What is your opinion on the idea that the purpose of this change could be to improve the readability of different factions? If every faction is depicted as Scandinavian looking white individuals, divisions between groups are more likely to get muddled for the viewer.

The Witcher books (and games) depict Elves and Dwarves as the oppressed and persecuted minorities of their world, and it's a really clear-cut class society with a large peasant class. The architecture and overall style of different nations are also quite varied. But, once again, the main issue with changing this particular characters appearance towards a different look is her lineage in the canon of this universe. Regardless of whether or not it's fictional, it's still a huge issue, and the writers would have to change an entire faction/empire and their looks and possibly culture to fit this narrative. It's just not manageable without losing the sense and weave of the entire world depicted. Look at Game of Thrones, all the major houses (and minor ones as well) in Westeros are mostly white folk with fairly similar build, but telling factions and cultures apart is very easy most of the time. It was simply never an issue.

The fact that writers feel that the only way to represent or diversify is to have minorities artificially supplant characters originally of a different ethnicity, says a lot about their skill and willingness to construct a diverse cast that makes sense in the context from the beginning.

PS: I actually refused/refuse to see Gods of Egypt due to the ridiculous casting decisions.