[quote=@VitaVitaAR]
Moving on, I'd like to make it abundantly clear that the issue here absolutely was one explicitly based in setting continuity. Dark Elves live underground in a Scandinavia-based region of the setting, therefore they are pale.

I absolutely do not want the fear tactics on display here to discourage anyone. If you want to sign up with a dark-skinned character, feel free to. There's plenty of regions that someone with dark skin could have come from, such as the more Middle Eastern-inspired regions to the east. [@TheFake]'s character from a former iteration of another RP in this setting originated from there. Because he asked me about them. Asking me will get you a lot. I want people to ask me about the setting. Dark Elves just aren't dark-skinned. Honestly it kind of came off to me as racist to make "dark elves" have dark skin anyway, it's kind of always bothered me a little.

If you want to make a dark-skinned elf, wood elves are known to develop tans from being the outdoorsy type. Not all of them, but some of them. There's probably naturally dark-skinned elves on another continent or something, but I haven't fleshed that out yet so it went unmentioned.

Part of this is I simply [i]don't know[/i] the cultures I'd be using as a basis as well.

Please don't let fear tactics stop you from using your idea. Just ask me about it first before you write up a full bio.

I'll be getting to some backlogged characters soon. Sorry for the delay.
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You're fine. I've been keeping out of this to not add any fuel to the fire, but neither you nor [@Raineh Daze] have behaved anything other than appropriately for the behavior being shown. And not knowing enough about something is a fine reason not to write about it.

Much more happily,

[quote=@Rin]
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There's not-vikings there too!  Which is hopefully what my character will be once I get some more stuff sorted out with Vita but we'll see how that turns out.
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[quote=@HereComesTheSnow]
[@Rin] Rad! Sieglinde's pretty heavily based on Nordic myth, so I was kind of urging my buddy in that direction for her erstwhile locale. We weren't entirely sure (small chance of it being, like, Russia), though, so he kept it vague in the end. Excited to see what you've got in store— everyone loves them some Vikings.
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[i]Absolutely[/i] awesome. Sieglinde's a Nordic myth gal by design, at least as much as I could figure out how to put in here. I'm excited to see what you come up with. Should've thought to ask specifically about a Nordic equivalent myself.