Do you think woke people would accept it if you made a game set in a traditional african village and for some reason there were White people in african clothes just wondering about like they belong there? (Remember they complained about White actors in the crowd in the Aladdin live action movie https://archive.ph/84oi2)
Thats what i think when i see some games that randomly shove black npcs in East Asian or European settings.
Rune factory 6 (edit: sorry i meant Rune factory Guardians of Azuma) has black npcs despite being set in a feudal Japan setting. (and also lgbt but i already knew they had gone woke since rune factory 5 when they added gay marriage in that one too when the localizers asked them to)
Edit: lol redditors downvoting me.
If I had to play Devil's Advocate for Dishonored 2, you could argue that the population of blacks in Karnaca could make sense with the city being very port heavy. That said, so was Dunwall, and you didn't have the dynamic there. Still doesn't necessarily explain the higher ranking positions though, unless we're suggesting it's just a more ""modern"" resemblance, rather than anything resembling a coherent, structured lore.
Yes that's exactly what I did - quickly came up with a reasonable mental rationale for their presence. I lost suspension of disbelief, but only for a moment.