I think diversity is best done by making it lore friendly and not just retconning things.
Making characters and nations with real substance is far more fun than just going back and changing something for political reasons.
I would rather see an introduction of african type regions in allegory for empires like The malian empire, Abyssinian Empire, Ajuuran Sultanate, or others rather than throw blacks into european type settings.
Even if we wanted to add blacks into europe type settings we could at least add lore reasons.
Many blacks were in spain under muslim rule and even at times the rulers of muslim areas of spain were black.
Just say that part of the continent was invaded, bam you can add in non-whites in a european setting.
We can do these things tastefully and add interesting lore.
As a black man I find it insulting to be given token characters of no substance, I would rather no inclusion than low effort shoe-ins.
Making characters and nations with real substance is far more fun than just going back and changing something for political reasons.
I would rather see an introduction of african type regions in allegory for empires like The malian empire, Abyssinian Empire, Ajuuran Sultanate, or others rather than throw blacks into european type settings.
Even if we wanted to add blacks into europe type settings we could at least add lore reasons.
Many blacks were in spain under muslim rule and even at times the rulers of muslim areas of spain were black.
Just say that part of the continent was invaded, bam you can add in non-whites in a european setting.
We can do these things tastefully and add interesting lore.
As a black man I find it insulting to be given token characters of no substance, I would rather no inclusion than low effort shoe-ins.