Here are each of my characters' skin tones on the character selection screens:


A Seeker, a Midlander, a Hellsguard, and a Rava, in order of lightest to darkest.

Below they are each in the lvl 50 Dark Knight quest "Our Answer", cutscene 2, which has slightly different lighting if you do it at night or during the day, but is otherwise a black screen shadowrealm. It's worse at night, and my Rava has the same dark-as-can-be skin tone as Erenville, who is set to be a major NPC in Dawntrail. My Rava, even playing the cutscene in the daytime, vanishes entirely into the background.

Various dungeons, several zones, indoors or outdoors, caverns or buildings, and in cutscenes; several times characters just are badly lit or outright invisible--and the darker their skin, the worse it is.

I have done what I can in the game settings. Adjusting character lighting only works in some cases (and also turns pale characters into light bulbs!). I shouldn't have to use my graphic card's shaders, and/or Gpose, and/or a lot of post-process work on my screenshots, to see my characters at all, let alone decently lit.

Seeker, Night:


Midlander, Day:


Hellsguard, Night:


Rava, Day: