Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
SE already has a pretty weird habit of lightening the skin of characters we're "supposed to relate to". It's possible I might be reading too much into it, but there's a lot of examples. I don't think it's enough for it to be malicious, but there's at least a subconscious bias.
And then we've got the Garleans, one of this games baddies, being mostly pale with blonde or white hair.

Japanese media in general have a lot of pale-skinned characters, though.