Not to belabor this, but it is relevant tot hw Stormlight stuff actually precisely because these books and this RPG are extremelydiverse: very few characters in the stormlight books are "white" and the main characters are darksinned and Asian coded. He has expressed concern that Hollywood would whitewash the cast of Stormlight Archives, in fact.
I found an early quote from his reaction to the diverse cast:
"The WoT casting looks good to me. It's more than it doesn't bother me; it's more that I actively like how these people look as the characters. Granted, I have information others don't have. I've read Rafe's scripts, I've read his treatments, and I get what he's doing with the series--and in almost every case, I like the choices he's made."
"Deciding to do the Two Rivers with a variety of skin tones but a unified cultural identity is cool to me because I think it expresses some of the broad themes of the Wheel of Time. Themes that might be difficult to get across otherwise without the text, the internal monologues, etc."
And his exact words on the end of the show recently, even as he was frustrated with a lot of how it turned out:
"Then I heard nothing for 2 months. Then learned this from the news like everyone else. I do think it's a shame, as while I had my problems with the show, it had a fanbase who deserved better than a cancelation after the best season."
