Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
Though to be frank always reducing it to skin color is moronic because not only does the character creation screen gives us such a wide variety to pick from within lore-friendly skin colors, it also gives us a wide variety of skin-colors outside any given sub-race's lore definition.
You'd think they're "outside" the lore-defined skin colours, but then we get weird things like the small number of dark-skinned Elezen in the middle of northern-European Ishgard - confirmably a thousand-year-old family trait of House Durendaire, and there are others like Charibert.