Finally, someone with some actual sense in the comments.

Which is why this is problematic. It doesn’t just change one character it forces a change to the world itself. It basically goes into fanfiction territory. Not that there would have been anything wrong if they came out from the start saying it’s going to be a totally alternative take on Witcher. But considering they…

As Emhyr who is based on Napoleon is white... that would destroy the lore

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was diverse but mostly caucasian so what's wrong with using history here? I get its fantasy world but its Polish in spirit and they should leave it that way just like the games did.

Oh, and it also means False Ciri from the main Witcher saga has to be black, too, and she was a child of a different Cintran family. That definitely means the nobility of Cintra is black, and so likely the populace in general.

Here’s the interesting thing to me: Ciri is a natural born princess of two royal lines. If Ciri is black, let’s say, that means that either or both of Pavetta of Cintra and Emhyr var Emreis is also black. Being the heads of hereditary monarchies, that means the ruling families of Cintra and/or Nilfgaard are going to…

Also, why is it wrong for fans to be pissed off at this casting decision. . . yet perfectly accepable to be pissed off when Scarlett Johansson was - very tastelessly - cast in Ghost in The Shell? Or when they were going to set Akira in the US, essentially making the entire cast white.

It’s exactly the same. If the…

Sapkowski is probably not going to like this, and nor should he.

By all means, I’d be happy to see someone CREATE a fantasy series with people of colour in, hell exclusively POC - give me something like The Witcher but set in feudal Japan with all that culture’s mythology and folklore, I would watch the hell out of…

Hell, I’m American and I only read the stories a few years back. It’s still really hard for me to imagine Ciri as anything other than a plain, lily-white girl with green eyes and ashen (not white!) hair. I think that in a case where the author, fans, and even other adaptations immediately and unquestioningly made a…

I am Polish and old enough to have read all the stories as they came out. This means that I have lived with these characters in my head for abut 30 years now and it’s really hard to imagine Ciri (and her mother and grandmother) as anything but green eyed blonde (the books keep referring her emerald eyes and ashen…

nothing wrong with representation, but whether its making a person of color white, or making a white character a person of color, a change like that shouldnt happen. representation needs to be done at conception, not after the fact.

So now the fedora demographic are experts in Medieval Polish history, are they? Their polymathy never ceases to amaze.

Make Rivia Great Again.

Great first step. Now:

It really is. Some dumbass trying to link a love of anime to ethnicity. Sounds like textbook racial profiling to me.

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