Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Iscah]

I will give you Lyse though. I complain about this all the time with my friend. That it seems like all Ala Mhigans are black or close to black except for... Lyse and Fordola. The two biggest Ala Mhigan characters. They are terrible characters anyways so again, don't need to get too worked up about it. It's just Yoshi-P doing Yoshi-P. He did the same thing to Lakshmi as well apparently.

Lyse, Fordola and Minfilia. Ala Mhigans don't have really dark skin anyway, but they're definitely paler than most.

On the other hand, it seems that dark skin and light hair is at least a normal combination for the race - see Ilberd, who has naturally white hair (even in the flashback we see of him twenty years earlier).

If we can jump realities for a moment, the manga Fullmetal Alchemist also bases its geography roughly on the real world, and the equivalent-to-Highlander race is specifically defined by brown skin and pale hair. So maybe it's a weird Japanese-media thing. Either that or the FFXIV character designers are FmA fans. I suspect they might be.