Asian and Black Elves.. Why?
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I am of chinese descent and asian elves makes zero sense.. Most asians that do anything fantasy related (anime, games, art design) make elves with blonde hair/european features in mind. if asians wanted asian elves, they would've made it themselves (and made them super sexy, which helps sell it).
Not sure why fantasy races have to have the same diverse makeup as god damn los angeles. these elves for example loses whatever distinctiveness from other races.. aside from pointy ears.
its actually quite distressing almost.. its like a tourist going to paris and seeing that paris sucks ass.
black elves.. well cant speak for them. i guess they existed since Tuvak from star trek. but that was way before all the ESG/DEI bullshit.
Elves aren’t even specifically white or European. A Greek/ Spanish/ Italian elf would be just as wtf as an Asian elf. They are supposed to be extremely fair skinned, same as faeries.
The japanese sometimes draw dark elves with brownish skin for the sake of exotic sex appeal.
The problem with turning every place into a melting pot is that it implies an ease of travel. The modern world can have the average person travel hundreds of miles per day, but people notice (as much as they want to deny) that it doesn't make sense in a medieval fantasy setting where almost everyone is still traveling on foot. Not to mention how many places would be expected to have tight restrictions on immigration.
If the Dragon Age setting was established to be a place of fast and frequent global/national scale traffic, it wouldn't be a problem. But that's not the case, where even the exalted Grey Wardens are forced to walk and camp in the woods and the closest thing to multiculturalism is the Super Commies nation run by the Qunari.
There is a thing called "verisimilitude" where something needs to appear to be real even if it's not real. You see a dragon in a movie or show and it needs to look like it's a real creature, you can't have a bunch of shitty CGI that make it move like a nonexistent hologram and say "but dragons are fictional maybe dragons just look like shitty CGI hurr". People's brains won't accept that.
Similarly, having several different irl races among several different (fantasy) races like it's a New York public school is fucking with the verisimilitude of the setting because it implies the civilizations have widespread modern ease of travel.
If the places were always like that, then there wouldn't be all these different skin tones people would be far more blended due to hundreds/thousands of years or race mixing. But the characters don't have planes, trains, or automobiles and in Dragon Age even transport magic is extremely limited or else it would have been piss easy for your characters to travel around in previous DA games.
Reminds me of when I was playing Greedfall. The diversity in the empire made sense because it was a global empire. But then you get to the island that has been near completely isolate for hundreds of years and somehow all the native tribes are perfectly diverse with all the couples being different races. Makes NO sense!
That sort of thinking has ruined entertainment. Witcher comes to mind.
oh yeah.. witcher tv show had asian elves. was eww.
seems tv show is ruining warhammer too.
I know it was diverse because the showrunner didn’t want to adapt the book
They love diversity, which is why elves are indistinguishable from Orcs except for the pointy ears. Shut up, racist.