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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9792165" data-attributes="member: 54629">It's established canon that the humans living in Northern Ergoth (and who were the main citizens of the pre-Cataclysm Empire of Ergoth) look like stereotypical real-world Africans, with black skin and curly/frizzy/kinky black hair. Both Theros and Maquesta are of Ergothian ancestry. (Maquesta's identity as a half-elf is a post-Chronicles retcon.)Riverwind and the Plainsfolk are described as "dark-skinned", but it seems that is meant to be different to the "ebony" or "dusky black" skin of the Ergothians. Goldmoon is specifically called out as being "unusual" looking for Plainsfolk.The other humans of Ansalon seem to default to generic European, whether that be the people of Kalaman in the north or the people of Port Balifor in the east.Interestingly, the dwarves and elves don't really get much in the way of physical descriptions in the Chronicles. Tas does because kender were new, and so do the tinker gnomes (who have brown skin IIRC). In terms of the elves, it's mainly only the four female named characters who get physical descriptions. I suppose they're meant to be (mostly) representative of their respective peoples.Laurana has "woodland brown" / tanned skin (that goes pale when she's nervous, scared, etc), honey-colored hair, and green eyes.Alhana has porcelain white skin, black hair, and lavender eyes.Apoletta has pearly white skin, greenish hair, and green eyes.Silvara has unusual silver hair, blue eyes, and dirty skin. She's always depicted as white, but since the Kaganesti are even more Native American-coded than the Plainsfolk are, you'd think her skin would be more reddish-brown.As an aside - Tika's hair is always described as red, and she's pale with freckles. Typical ginger. But Elmore has always painted her with more auburn-colored dark red hair. Tanis, meanwhile, has "reddish-brown" hair, but Elmore has always painted him as looking more ginger than Tika.I've just been trying to show people that Elmore took plenty of creative license in his portrayal of the DL characters in his paintings. His depictions don't always match what's actually in the books.</blockquote>

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