I don't anticipate making any updates to this anytime soon - or maybe ever. The modding process for this game is quite tedious, and I've moved on to other things generally. Just here to say make sure you read the descriptions for each file carefully. Some of them have different hair options than others, some of them have different scar options. None of them have the tattoo, I'm sorry to say. But you're welcome to use the modkit to open up and edit my files as you like. If you do publish anything based on my work, I'd appreciate it if you gave me a lil mention, but I don't do this for my job or anything, so I won't /sue/ you.
There have been non-white Europeans since /at least/ the Roman Empire, and probably before (somebody gonna try to tell me Troy was inhabited by a Pale Race? Lol that kind of theory has been dead since the 30s. Somebody gonna try to tell me immigration is a phenomenon that started with the industrial revolution? Nonsense). To argue that Europe has always been By And For The Whites is impossible to support with tangible evidence, so don't let any fool try to tell you otherwise!
You're focusing on the parenthetical and not on the argument; even if you just start with the peak of Rome, Southern Europeans, North Africans, and people from Asia Minor were able to travel as far as England as citizens of the same empire. There's no way out of this; unless there was some ethnic cleansing campaign all across Europe that I'm unaware of, there have been non-white Europeans well into the north for thousands of years
Fact is - we are ALL ... including so-called white-Europeans, Asians, etc.. descended from Africans. I am a white dude from NW USA... recently descended from British/Scandinavian immigrants, from what we can tell... but it is a KNOWN fact that we are ALL descended from African emigrants, or "people who left" Africa - thousands, even hundreds-of-thousands of years ago... and of course from neanderthals (neanderthal DNA is found in virtually all modern homo-sapiens i.e. cro-magnon animals.. lol.
A woman's remains were excavated some time ago, in Africa, and from which DNA was successfully extracted; she is known as "genetic Eve" -- look it up; virtually ALL of us have her DNA. That is - she is a mega-great-great-great...great-grandmother to virtually ALL of humanity - all of us distant cousins who are trying to get along in today's world (and those who are not as well). We're all cousins, folks. Sorry to break it to the less-evolved bigoted among us. Truth - all of it.
Ethnicity is a term for cultural and mostly geographic recent-origins -- it is not technically a definer of genetics. i.e. ethnicity is only skin-deep. Genetics knows no particular skin-coloring beyond two or three preceding generations; i.e. color is one of the first things to change across generations. Apologies if this appears a soap-box lecture - it was the "people of color" and "non-white" Europeans reference; made me laugh. The first Europeans were definitely non-white, hah... it was centuries of the milder summers and harsher winters of the northern latitudes that sapped the pigment from our ancestor's skin. I honestly don't mean to preach, lol.. I just pity folk who continue to judge by the "book's cover", ignoring the fact that what's in a person's heart has nothing to do with the color of their damn skin. I do acknowledge that if anyone has cause or right to harbor racist sentiment, it is those who have, or whose more recent ancestry has, dealt with discrimination and far worse, barbaric treatment, i.e. those "of color"... but "white" folk like me - no excuse for it, really.Oops, guess it was a soapbox. Apologies, heh.
Well said and appreciate your comment; however, some of your information has not fully been peer reviewed to make it fact, unless you can provide some citation or literature otherwise. Theory prevails in most intellectual conversations and/or correspondence; so for example, there is theory that our true beginnings may have initiated millions of years ago and not just collective bars of thousands. Additionally, open studies are finding that most if not all of our "ancient" structures were built or otherwise modified on top of older, undefined "foundations" that the science community still has no answers to. It should also be taken into consideration that history is written by the "victorious" and defined in such a way to provide a convenience on existing collective/political power. Now there is an understanding that our existing continents were connected at one time, thus, "Africa" did not necessarily exist in the manner that has been indoctrinated to all of us today. We know this land as Pangea, and theory has it that "continental drift" split this land up about 170 million years ago; based on this theory one can surmise that Africa/Asia/NorthAmerica is a moot point and proves nothing per our existing confirmation biases. There is a blank paper(s) missing in our human progression, and it should be added that "skin tone and pigmentation" does not transition organically in the matter of thousands of years unless we're talking about bacteria. Human adaptation and evolution to a changing environment is said to take more than a million to 10 million years. This again is all theory and still debated in the scientific community (which has its own politics). Ultimately, it's really in poor taste for anyone of us to attempt to confirm our biases by force, based on information that is still stuck in the arena of "theory". It doesn't mean we can't talk about it in respect, and collect ideas; however, it's a poor tool to use to enforce some "social" or " racial" injustice to elevate one color over another, whether black, white, yellow, brown etc...We don't really know because we can't see into the past at our beginnings aside from "left over" evidence that in-itself is difficult to define and interpret.For all we know, we did not come from just one man or woman, but perhaps we're indeed separate species of humanoids with a common internal physiology living in some alien kids science aquarium. "Shrugs".
Great points Aprilia1k! But no reason either that there cant be stories that are traditionally all white. As an African-American from Northern Cali I have grown up enjoying reading stuff from King Authur to Tolkien that is great as is, being all white. Same as we can all enjoy manga or anime or JRPGs thats are all Japanese, or can enjoy a book like Running that's all Chicano, or i can enjoy stuff that's primarily black; but mods like these really do help me tons with my immersion playing these RPG's.
And then hearing articulate, cool ass brothers from anotha mother like yourself makes being a part of the Nexus Modding/gaming / Witcher Community even better and more fun!! So Thanks @aprilia1k!!
And a big Thanks again to the mods creator Marzipan Stan and all our fellow Witchers here!
BTW would anyone have any idea on how to get the shaved head mod to work? Can't seem to get it working even though I used NMM to install it. The white hair is still visible. But the Carnada skin color change works.
To be pedantic, though, you're not representing Geralt as "Egyptian", but as if he was Zerrikanian, a people from a country that isn't well-known in the Witcher universe. It's in the southeastern corner of the Continent.
Their land is supposedly based on Arabic culture, and is known (lore-wise) as the land where bomb formulas come from, along with aspects of alchemy.
Azar Javed, a mage antagonist from the first Witcher PC game, was Zerrikanian.
Figured you'd like fuel to shut down the idiots claiming there are only white folk in the Witcher lore.
Very appreciative. Which there were more people like the creator of this mod and you that slanders bigoted faggots who always want to say something about having people of color in games. Thank you sir.
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I don't anticipate making any updates to this anytime soon - or maybe ever. The modding process for this game is quite tedious, and I've moved on to other things generally. Just here to say make sure you read the descriptions for each file carefully. Some of them have different hair options than others, some of them have different scar options. None of them have the tattoo, I'm sorry to say. But you're welcome to use the modkit to open up and edit my files as you like. If you do publish anything based on my work, I'd appreciate it if you gave me a lil mention, but I don't do this for my job or anything, so I won't /sue/ you.
Happy witchering
Looks good, but no way it could be lore-friendly.
A woman's remains were excavated some time ago, in Africa, and from which DNA was successfully extracted; she is known as "genetic Eve" -- look it up; virtually ALL of us have her DNA. That is - she is a mega-great-great-great...great-grandmother to virtually ALL of humanity - all of us distant cousins who are trying to get along in today's world (and those who are not as well). We're all cousins, folks. Sorry to break it to the less-evolved bigoted among us. Truth - all of it.
Ethnicity is a term for cultural and mostly geographic recent-origins -- it is not technically a definer of genetics. i.e. ethnicity is only skin-deep. Genetics knows no particular skin-coloring beyond two or three preceding generations; i.e. color is one of the first things to change across generations. Apologies if this appears a soap-box lecture - it was the "people of color" and "non-white" Europeans reference; made me laugh. The first Europeans were definitely non-white, hah... it was centuries of the milder summers and harsher winters of the northern latitudes that sapped the pigment from our ancestor's skin. I honestly don't mean to preach, lol.. I just pity folk who continue to judge by the "book's cover", ignoring the fact that what's in a person's heart has nothing to do with the color of their damn skin. I do acknowledge that if anyone has cause or right to harbor racist sentiment, it is those who have, or whose more recent ancestry has, dealt with discrimination and far worse, barbaric treatment, i.e. those "of color"... but "white" folk like me - no excuse for it, really.Oops, guess it was a soapbox. Apologies, heh.
Now there is an understanding that our existing continents were connected at one time, thus, "Africa" did not necessarily exist in the manner that has been indoctrinated to all of us today. We know this land as Pangea, and theory has it that "continental drift" split this land up about 170 million years ago; based on this theory one can surmise that Africa/Asia/NorthAmerica is a moot point and proves nothing per our existing confirmation biases. There is a blank paper(s) missing in our human progression, and it should be added that "skin tone and pigmentation" does not transition organically in the matter of thousands of years unless we're talking about bacteria. Human adaptation and evolution to a changing environment is said to take more than a million to 10 million years. This again is all theory and still debated in the scientific community (which has its own politics).
Ultimately, it's really in poor taste for anyone of us to attempt to confirm our biases by force, based on information that is still stuck in the arena of "theory". It doesn't mean we can't talk about it in respect, and collect ideas; however, it's a poor tool to use to enforce some "social" or " racial" injustice to elevate one color over another, whether black, white, yellow, brown etc...We don't really know because we can't see into the past at our beginnings aside from "left over" evidence that in-itself is difficult to define and interpret.For all we know, we did not come from just one man or woman, but perhaps we're indeed separate species of humanoids with a common internal physiology living in some alien kids science aquarium. "Shrugs".
Great points Aprilia1k! But no reason either that there cant be stories that are traditionally all white. As an African-American from Northern Cali I have grown up enjoying reading stuff from King Authur to Tolkien that is great as is, being all white.
Same as we can all enjoy manga or anime or JRPGs thats are all Japanese, or can enjoy a book like Running that's all Chicano, or i can enjoy stuff that's primarily black; but mods like these really do help me tons with my immersion playing these RPG's.
And then hearing articulate, cool ass brothers from anotha mother like yourself makes being a part of the Nexus Modding/gaming / Witcher Community even better and more fun!! So Thanks @aprilia1k!!
And a big Thanks again to the mods creator Marzipan Stan and all our fellow Witchers here!
To be pedantic, though, you're not representing Geralt as "Egyptian", but as if he was Zerrikanian, a people from a country that isn't well-known in the Witcher universe. It's in the southeastern corner of the Continent.
Their land is supposedly based on Arabic culture, and is known (lore-wise) as the land where bomb formulas come from, along with aspects of alchemy.
Azar Javed, a mage antagonist from the first Witcher PC game, was Zerrikanian.
Figured you'd like fuel to shut down the idiots claiming there are only white folk in the Witcher lore.