In case anyone thought the Game of Thrones spinoffs were going to be anything but woke garbage
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HAHAHA they made Corlys Velaryon black! The Velaryons, for those who haven't read the books or looked into the worldbuilding material GRRM has released to date, are a Valyrian family like their inbred overlords the Targaryens; noted for having the same pale skin, silver hair and purple or bluish-purple eyes of that race. It is precisely because of their shared Valyrian ancestry that the Targaryen royals typically married a Velaryon (by now their cousins many times over) when they aren't bedding their own sisters, because as the incest demonstrates, they were a bunch extremely concerned with the purity of their bloodlines - it's also why they only rarely married their heirs to the subject Great Houses of the setting. This particular Velaryon and his family have been consistently depicted with those Valyrian looks in all art and fanart up to this point.
The Velaryon looks are quite seriously a major story element in the Dance of the Dragons (the civil war which this series revolves around), because the crown princess Rhaenyra's first three kids look nothing like her Velaryon husband (who is gay) and a whole lot like her non-Valyrian lover. Their disputed paternity is what opens the way for her half-brother (already legally the heir, but bypassed by a sanction from their father) to challenge her claim to the throne. But I guess storytelling integrity is no match for the power of Current Year diversity, eh?
Fuck you GRRM, not only are you never going to finish your main series, but now you're selling out what little artistic integrity you still have to the woke crowd even though D&D have already crashed the TV side of your franchise with no survivors and so, if anything, only the most hardcore fans of those books you're never gonna complete are going to care to watch this series. Can't believe this guy ever entertained the title of 'American Tolkien'.
Martin is an executive producer on this show and the other GoT spinoffs, so he absolutely could have put his foot down over the wokecasting and didn't. He's clearly gone senile if he thinks that'll make House of the Dragon attractive to the woke crowd anyway (and he's gonna need them to compensate after further antagonizing the actual fans of his books), they still hate him after last year's Hugo awards to the point that some dangerhair cunt who wrote a piece on him literally titled 'George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun' is already a Hugo finalist this year.
Ah well, if he hasn't learned anything from such ingratitude after he took a nice big diarrheic shit over the Sad Puppies, he's clearly not going to learn a thing now. He already has his 'fuck you' pile of money, after all. And will still be able to cry into it every day after HOTD inevitably flames out and the aforementioned dangerhair disses him some more in her Hugo acceptance speech.
I think GRRM's issue is he went from being a working writer. A guy that had a lot of stuff published but never really sold much and was only really known in the writing community as a competent writer and editor. Then he got propelled into worldwide success and fame very late in life and he is terrified of losing that.