archmage-modera:

macbcths:

sassacrusher:

“you can’t have an asian elf. elves don’t have human races”

*puts my mouth on the mic* excuse me mr. big bad dungeon’s master but i think it’s gonna be hard for you to run this campaign when you’re too busy being a shitty little bitch

why are half the comments on this post “it’s fine i guess if you can make it fit with the lORE” like dear god are ppl of color just . not real to you weirdos we don’t need a “””reason to exist””” in fiction or reality

Anyone who says X cant be this skin color doesn’t understand how skin color even works. People are not black because they’re “African”. They’re black because their ancestors lived in a equatorial, arid region for ten thousand years and their bodies darkened to protect their cellular structure from solar radiation.

People are tan because their ancestors either A) lived closer to the poles but still close enough to the equator to need darker skin tones or B) they lived on a coastline and fish was a huge part of their diet.

People are light because their ancestors lived very close to the poles and did not have a large seafood diet and needed lighter skin to absorb more sunlight so they can produce the essential Vitamin D.

That’s right. Your skin tone is because of an essential need for Vitamin D. The more sunlight you get, the darker your skin gets. The less, the lighter.

So an elf can be darker skinned because every world has a fucking sun and elves need Vitamin D too.

Unless you’re a drow and then you’re just a fucked up elf.