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Valyrians (like the Velaryon family) aren’t native to Westeros either of course. Based on Valyria’s geography the author could have easily chose to make them black but he made them platinum haired whites. It should serve to highlight the bastardy of Rhaenyra’s children when they don’t look black at all.

Doesn’t make too much sense for the Sea Snake to be so dark skinned though unless there are a lot of other blacks to interbreed with, the Velaryons mixed with the Targs a lot. Even if you say they were black originally, they shouldn’t look black many many generations later.

There were a few minor black characters (Summer Islanders) in Westeros, all were cut from “Game of Thrones), instead they made a couple random minor characters black, the pirate guy (that worked) and the asshole from Qarth.

They’ve also made Prince Daemon’s foreign GF Asian looking. And Ser Criston Cole is played by a guy who’s part Indian, so I guess they are making him part Dornish even though he’s not in the source material.

Watching the new Vikings spinoff, they made a Jarl character part black AND a woman (the historical version was of course a Norwegian man), with the explanation that her dad, the previous Jarl, brought back and married an African woman.

Whatever, they are gonna find ways to cast non-whites in things were non-whites shouldn’t have existed. I have a bigger problem with the fact that the woman they cast as Rhaenyra, who should be hot (and then get kinda fat but we don’t need that level of accuracy) is a plain looking “non-binary” and her younger version is a really weird looking chick.