(urth) Severian's skin color

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

This is a clear case of artists assuming that the generic SFF hero
is white no matter what the writer says.

Somewhere in there Wolfe (or Severian) makes a comment to
the effect that each of the continents has a characteristic 
physical "type," and that peoples who live on a continent long
enough will tend towards that "type." (Something like a hundred
generations?) Since the Commonwealth (a) is on - roughly - 
the South American continent, and (b) has been there a long 
time, we can reasonably conclude that its citizens resemble 
contemporary native South Americans.

--Dan'l

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