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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9787094" data-attributes="member: 54629">They didn’t. As has been pointed out upthread, Ergothians (who had an empire to rival Solamnia and Istar before the Cataclysm) are described as being black. One such Ergothian is Theros Ironfeld. He isn’t a main character, but he has an important role to play as the one who gets the magic silver arm and forges new dragonlances.There’s also Captain Maquesta Kar-Thon, who takes some of the companions into the Maelstrom. She is half-Ergothian, half-Silvanesti elf, so she’s a mixed race black person.Then there’s the Plainsmen barbarians of Abanasinia, who are described as “dark-haired and dark-skinned”.I’ve been recording all mentions of skin tone in Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I’m up to page 214.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tanis has tanned skin.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Flint’s skin is brown and “cracked like old leather.”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Goldmoon has tanned skin and silver-gold hair, which Tas notes as being “unusual” for a Plainsman.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Riverwind is “dark-skinned”.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tika’s skin tone isn’t noted but it’s light enough that you can see the freckles “smattering her nose and cheeks”.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Raistlin had “white skin” that has turned golden.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Caramon’s skin tone isn’t mentioned but since he is Raistlin’s twin, he most likely has white skin too.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sturm’s skin tone hasn’t been mentioned yet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I don’t think Tas’ skin tone has been mentioned yet either.</li> </ul>Later, Laurana is introduced as having “woodland brown” skin.</blockquote>

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