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[@TheRedWatcher]I'd say that Vaakjarki's skin tone being natural rather than painted is enough of a difference, and the similarities could just be something akin to convergent evolution. Using what's best to adapt to the situation at hand, and all.

Though if it's a big issue, I guess I could edit the appearance a little.
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Well the core details are not similar. It's in the unique features that the characters are boiled down to. If the characters were standing at the police station in a lineup:
-Recent Indigenous Nation that joins the politics of Adnanian
-Having their own separate religions different from the main religion
-Having their own culture
-Then adding on top of the Camouflaging into the Snow, it's not necessarily the white skin versus painted
-Then adding on top blue eyes

Certainly the Cores are very dissimilar, but when another character has to quickly describe another character "the indigenous person with blue eyes" well which Indigenous person with blue eyes?