Recently, fantasy media has been doing diversity in the absolute dumbest and laziest way possible, which is to continue to do European-based medieval fantasy and just make all the characters (including the magical creatures) a completely random smattering of all ethnic appearances and calling it a day. No explanation for why a backwoods medieval farming village appears so cosmopolitan it makes New York City look like an ethnostate. And no recognition of non-European cultures either, it's just straight European fantasy and all cultures and people are treated as European with their appearance being purest tokenism.
But with the Elder Scrolls deciding to put the next game in Hammerfell, land of the Redguards, we have an opportunity to have a fantasy world based on non-European cultures with a largely black and brown native population since the Redguards are based on North African peoples. Its an opportunity to show that you can have a successful fantasy world based on non-European cultures with a mostly non-white population, and the right will no longer have the justified complaint that its shitty worldbuilding (and, despite culture war contrarianism, I think everyone knows that the aforementioned trend IS shitty worldbuilding) and they will be forced to fall back on naked racism, which will cause them recede back into their corners of society.
But all that depends on the game itself actually being good and with modern Bethesda that is a big question.
17 posts and 1 image reply omitted.>>48590>>48591>>48592The Roman Empire was more "Mediterranean" than it was specifically "European." While it could be said that North Africa, the Middle East and Asia Minor were "colonized" by the Romans, they weren't any more "colonized" than its European holdings outside of the core territory in the Italian peninsula, and they rather infamously thought that Northern Europeans were basically orcs.
>>48565It remains to be seen whether the elderly white boomers at the top of Bethesda have any creative vision left for TES, and whether we're sufficiently post-woke for gamers to accept the existence of black people in a video game.
Oh my god I just thought of it but they're going to have a customisable ship or some shit like that as the gimmick
>>48598Good, ship is a far more fitting base of operation for a murderhobo than a house.
>>48593The Levant is rightful European clay