Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Aana]

To give SE a little credit, some of this is about as silly as demanding LOTR needed more black people. Its a high fantasy set in a fictional european setting. So no, there arent a lot of black people in a europoean geographic set of people. Eorzea is a world SE made up. We have only seen 1 (now 2 in SB) continents on this fictional planet, and only a fraction of the inhabitants on these TWO continents are even human, so no, they dont have the variation of humans that an entire planet of humans has. This is a game set on a portion of a planet with 5 playable species and a multitude of other humanoid species (NPCs). So no, you arent going to see the same variety of humans anymore than seeing a wide variety of Au Ra who all live in 1 mongolian steppe clone region. Races in this game are regional, not global. Not getting global variety in a regional game. We got other non-human species instead of global human variety.

A fantasy game doesnt NEED to have equal representation to the real world for a variety of logistical, practical, and world building reasons. No more than LOTR needs to have a giant african zulu tribe stuffed into their medieval Europe fantasy story.

There is a place for intentional inclusion in media and a notable shortage of diversity in many places. This probably isnt one of them.