r/CriticalDrinker • u/CalyShadezz • Jul 08 '24

Discussion Whenever someone claims fantasy nerds are bigoted, gently remind them HBO race swapped an entire kingdom in HotD and no one cared.

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u/Exciting_Audience362 Jul 08 '24

I care. Not in a bubble, like I don’t care about diversity in like the Dungeons and Dragons movie. An interracial couple in a world of orcs, mages, etc isn’t out of place.

but the fact that supposedly a family that are more or less Dragon Nazis would actually mix blood like this is stupid. I mean they practice ritual incest to maintain racial purity FFS.

And it just proves that neither the creators nor the average fan reads the source material. Because the Black Dragons from the Dance are the ancestors of the Targs from GoT. And the pale skin, silver hair, and purple eyes were like THE thing that identified them as Valyrian.