POC representation

[Iscah]

And you can't really blame people for interpreting the features as "white" for characters who have eye colours that is Blue/green/grey and hair that is blonde/red/brown whilst also having pale skin, as this is typically seen in people of European descent, and not often seen elsewhere.

Yeah, I'm not saying they're at fault for reading it that way - and also, importantly, it does not apply here in this game, at least for Hyuran characters, except possibly for the Far Eastern characters using the same models as "European" Eorzeans.

Eorzea is clearly equivalent to Europe, maybe with some part of Africa mashed into the bottom of it. (The rest of Africa, at least geographically, may be Meracydia - what little we know of real-world-equatable information is that it's somewhere to the south and that aloe and sesame, both African, are native to it.)