POC representation

[NessaWyvern]

Yeah, I'm not saying they're at fault for reading it that way - and also, importantly, it does not apply here in this game, at least for Hyuran characters, except possibly for the Far Eastern characters using the same models as "European" Eorzeans.

Eorzea is clearly equivalent to Europe, maybe with some part of Africa mashed into the bottom of it. (The rest of Africa, at least geographically, may be Meracydia - what little we know of real-world-equatable information is that it's somewhere to the south and that aloe and sesame, both African, are native to it.)

They probably just chose their fantasy-Europe as the main setting because it would go down better with Japanese audiences. Also, European people commonly have brown/black hair and brown eyes, yet you don’t really see this in the scions. They’re pushing that pale-hair, pale-eyes, pale skin thing that is favourable in Japanese media.

So it probably does still apply in this game.