Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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[–]weavilsatemyface[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

a fantasy analogue of Medieval Europe.

Ah, so there should be plenty of Moors, Gypsies, north Africans, Mediterranean peoples, near Middle Eastern types, Turks, Egyptians and even (by the end of the medieval period) black Africans. Got you.

You: "No no no, I'm not talking about the real historical medieval Europe, I'm talking about the imaginary fantasy of medieval Europe in my head where nobody took Muslim slaves from North Africa to work on their farms, never engaged with trade between northern and southern Europe, nobody ever travelled from Italy or Spain, or went on Crusades, and everybody looked like an SS recruiting poster!!!"

If you have problems with the writing it's because the primary goal of the film was to BLACK the Realms

Oh dear, somebody is butthurt about there being people with dark skins 😄

I'm pretty sure the primary goal of the film was to make a shit-ton of money. And I had problems with the writing because the writing was cliched and poor, not because a few of the cast members were dark skinned.

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    [–]weavilsatemyface[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Europe was nearly 100 percent European

    It really wasn't.

    There were tens of thousands of north African and Middle Eastern slaves during the middle ages, at a time when the whole population of Europe was measured in the millions. For 700 years or so, Spain was ruled in whole or in part by Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East.

    Let's not forget the Huns, a multi-ethnic nomadic culture whose people had origins in the central Eurasian steppes and Iran, as far east as China. Or the Mongols, who invaded Europe multiple times, and although they did not stay, men being men and rape being common in war, they left Mongol DNA all through the parts of Europe they invaded.

    Earlier, in Roman times, the empire had many thousands of brown-skinned North Africans, Middle Easterners, and black-skinned Africans legionnaires, and Rome sent them all over the empire. There were black Africans, what the Romans called "Ethiopeans", serving as soldiers in emperor Septimius Severus' army as far north as Hadrian's Wall. Septimus himself was a dark-skinned north African. Another emperor, Philip the Arab, was a Syrian Arab.

    jewish meddling

    "OMG! OMG! THE JOOS!? 😲 RUN FER THE HILLS BOYS! THEY'RE A COMIN' FER YA!"