I don’t consider myself an avid historian of Slavic exchanges historically but at least from everything I know it’s patently absurd to somehow implant a Mali Muslim into the service of a king who was directly involved in the crusades against the Ottoman Empire. From Varva:
6/10 The game takes place in one of the richest cities in Europe which was besieged by a massive foreign army. That´s the reason why the life in such a city is more diverse than the life in villages which were featured in the first game. 7/10 Musa came to Bohemia with an invading army as a member of the royal court of King Sigismund, whom he met thanks to his engagement at the court of Sultan Bayezid. He's an educated noble and renaissance man from the Kingdom of Mali.
So King Sigismund, a Hapsburg and king of Hungary, who was at war with bohemian Hussites (heretics) and was fighting a religious war supposedly hired a black Muslim retainer from an engagement with a sultan… who was already and repeatedly at war with the king and trying to take his claims in Hungary. Not only this but Sigismund was repeatedly engaged in the crusades against the ottomans and was notorious for fighting “heretics” and advancing Catholicism. How is any of that supposed to make sense?
What I don't like is how this is a big shift in direction. Before he said that without proof of black people in Bohemia during early 15 century it makes no sense to have them. Now we're back to you can't prove there wasn't a black guy medic serving King Sigismund that no one recorded bull shit.
Are we suppose to pretend this was an organic change and not one done for diversity?
Everything about the changes scream forced diversity. “There was gay people in the 1400s”, there was rape, pederasty, bestiality, and mass hedonism too. Were literally talking about the exact same time frame as Gille de Rais in France, one of the most notorious serial killers and child rapists in history who also was a icon of the Black Sabbath, occultism, and satanism. This would be far more interesting of a take, but somehow we got “hidden gay lust”. It’s literally the intro to tropic thunder with RDJ as a gay priest.
"But two gay people existed in KCD 1 so this is a non-issue."
That just shows that there must be zero tolerance for faggotry in media.