LordHorusNL
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There are ELEMENTS of the books that are inspired by Polish/Eastern European folklore, yes, but there's quite a bit that is not. Furthermore, how do you know that Medieval Poland didn't have contact with people who weren't white? You're discounting the concept that they would have had contact with cultures like the Huns, the Tartars, and the Karaites Jews, not to mention the Muslims who would give rise to the Ottoman Empire. Just because it's a predominantly Caucasian area now (which frankly, I kind of doubt), doesn't mean there wasn't contact with those groups.
Also, let us not forget that Skellige is an absolute bastardized mashup of Celt/Scots/Norse cultures and Nilfgaard is a pretty blatant rip off of the Roman Empire, one of the most diverse cultural groups in the Ancient world.
The groups you speak of were a tiny minority in a 99.9% white country, it was then and it still is to this day so no need to doubt the fact that its predominantly Caucasian.
But by all means, add what resembles a roaming Muslim or Jewish merchant to the story or whatever character you want with whatever background, absolutely no problem.
But having Fringilla Vigo be played by an actress of African decent changes her entire backstory, is she still second cousin to Anna Henrietta? Do you change her ethnicity to, is she still duchess of Toussaint?
How do you go from having fringe contact with certain minority groups, to explaining how people form these groups end up ruling entire sections of the land?
And why is it so important that these already established characters be changed?
Just makes some new characters that actually fit the world of the Witcher if you want diversity so bad, and nobody will care. It is after all fantasy.