Not so friendly reminder that Isabela was never white

To quote her creator:

No, Isabela is not “white” in the original game. I’m kind of tired of people saying that she was always “meant to be white” or  was “clearly a red-head” so I’m going to set the record straight. Isabela was always, always conceived as a dark-skinned, Rivaini woman.

I made the face for her in Origins myself, because Craig (who was implementing her) had a bunch of other stuff to do and I volunteered. Important characters have their heads reviewed and tweaked to make sure they’re as close to perfect as possible. Characters that don’t have a huge role to play do not usually get this privilege. So Origins Isabela shipped pretty much the way I made her. I gave her the second darkest skintone we had available. Then I gave her brown hair, thinking it would be sun-bleached. I think the reddish cast might be from the lighting in the Pearl.

So that’s the story. In DA2, she looks kind of Mediterranean. I like that.

Edited by Sheryl Chee, 06 April 2011 - 07:44 PM.

Gaider also said as much.

And it’s not as if her skin is the only thing about her that makes her clearly not a white woman.

So all those whitewashing mods claiming to make her “more like DA:O?” People pretending there’s such a thing as “blackwashing?” Absolute bullshit through and through. And if anything mods that give her darker skin are more accurate.