Uhuit asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Mankind in Elan is much younger than in our world, and has come from Calis, where humans are dark-skinned. Does that mean that all of humanity, also those in Elan, is much more dark skinned (than caucasian people in our world) in general, since there hasn't been that much time, evolutionary speaking, to develop different features such as pale skin? (How) would this influence the mir?

Michael J. Sullivan I'm not sure that the Elan is "much younger than our world." I have about 8,000 years of history but from an evolutionary stand point I have no idea about when the world was formed etc. Maybe I should, but to be honest I concern myself with the aspects of the world that have some part to play on the various plot points and so it starts where most of the origins of the mythology began.

I guess it's up to each person to interpret the various skin pigments for themselves. I know my daughter, for whatever reason, seems Esrahaddon as appearing like Morgan Freeman (probably because he is one of her favorite actors). All her fan art has him drawn that way. It's not how I picture him, but that's fine, I want each person to have their own concepts and my opinion has no more weight then theirs.

Mir are cross-bred people so it really depends on who pro-created with whom. As to the elves themselves, they would be fair as they live under the deep canopy of Estramandon and rarely see sunlight as the canopy of the trees is dense.

Thanks for asking, I wish I had a more detailed answer for you, but I'm glad that there are things that people are able to interpret for themselves.

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