Is Lyse ugly?

[TTiscancer]

I think he's getting at the fact that the country sports a range of European/Caucasian skin tones, not so much that games like ACO are reflective of what the country is like. Quite obviously, you won't find the same selection of skin tones in Greece, as you would in Turkey, Dubai or India, although in Turkey's case there is some overlap because it took over former Greek territories in Asia Minor as well as having engaged in forced conscription across a range of southeastern European populations.

Before Rome, pretty much all of Europe was "Blindingly white". It wasn't until they started shipping people around that genes started mixing. The Hunnic invasions was a massive cause as well due to all the migrating. Most Greeks had probably never even seen dark skin tone before Alexanders conquests.

The point was, that people didn't really start mixing naturally. So having a little village with 20 different skin tones is laughable. It would have a massive inbreeding problem in reality. It's why I hate it when games like AC:O portray places like Ancient Greece the way they did, it's more unrealistic that the Minotaur monsters and stuff.