>>90487277...but there are black people and middle easterners in Witcher 3, in exactly the context being argued as relevant: travelers and foreigners. They're rare, but they're there.
Unrelatedly, it's always frustrating watching people whose basic point you agree with (it is literally a made-up world with made-up history; while it isn't 'ban this person from everything forever' territory, there is literally no reason for there not to be black people in your setting other than 'I didn't want to include them' or 'It did not occur to me to include them') run headlong into the most asinine arguments possible. The history of the subject is, again literally, irrelevant to both sides. This *isn't* Poland, it's fucking Temeria. Temeria is not a real place, and neither are any of the countries bordering it. There is no fucking reason, in either direction, for anyone to be white at all. It's purely down to author choice, but the fact that both the authors and the people arguing it start to cite 'historical realism' as some kind of reference point betrays both sides as any number of things, not the least of which is being shit at debate.
