humble minion
Legend
But conversely, the old Valachan could be viewed as basically erasing African culture completely. The only dark-skinned nation in the core is basically generic fantasy-Europe? When even in the various obscure Islands of Terror etc to the best of my knowledge there'e no domain reflecting sub-Saharan Africa? (There's a bit of Egypt, and there's a voodoo/plantation themed domain in Souragne, but that's a close as we get)Which troubles me because it seems like a shift towards ethno-nationalism (the kind of thinking that ties the color of our skin to the kinds of cultural expressions we can have). I am not saying you can't have an african domain with people who look like real world people from Africa (I get the value of conveying that shorthand in a fantasy setting). But taking a domain that didn't connect culture and race, and using it to connect culture and race, I honestly think that is a little disturbing if the people doing it, think they are being more enlightened (cause it isn't).
I think (and as I've said, I'm a white Australian guy so I'm not exactly plugged into this stuff as much as some) there'd be fewer concerns about a dark-skinned generic-European-fantasy Valachan if there was also at least one dark-skinned African-fantasy domain. You can start to look at disconnecting race from culture once you've at least represented the culture.