Diablo 3 Beta Test report

[Rhydderch Hael]

The entirety  of my point is the he focused ona  "white" and "black" relationship which happens to be the same colors found in a similular realtion shipin America(be it real or percieved).
My point is not about slavery, it is about carelessly linking reality and fiction for arbitrary purposes.

Look at his exact words.

"are the cultural minority that struggle against economic and social presure that come with the job of being the conquered"

Sounds awfully familier to me.

What is unwise here is not that he dealt with the topic of oppressed minorities, but rather that he did it with blacks and whites, and then used blacks as the opresser. Its not wrong, but I think he could have been a little more creative. ...

You say I focused on the issue. I did, in that post, as that is what all the post needed to state (it was a response to that futuristic article's blurb that some people might take offense in seeing the Paladin depicted as a black man, after all).

That does not mean I'll focus on it in the story. If you saw it to be a matter of blacks vs. whites, then you succumbed to a mistake of taking a very brief summary to heart. Let me deepen it a bit, then.

The Zakarum Empire has dominion over vast portions of Kehjistan, provinces in Aranoch (Lut Gholien is an independent city, but a garrison of Rangers march in and strut around acting as if they own the place thanks to Jerhyn's preoccupation with guarding the palace grounds), and is on the warpath in the western kingdoms. The cities of the Zakarum are not limited to just Kurast, Kingsport, and Duncraig. It is much more vast, encompassing many races, and extends it benefits to all those people (the idea is to convert the peoples to the Light, not to rule over them). In Westmarch, the racial lines are a little more delineated than most, due to the relative geographic isolation of the province (look at the map: Westmarch is at the end of a peninsula with "infidel" nations between it and the rest of the Empire). And it happens to be that the hero (and certain antagonists) hail from the province of Westmarch. There are other Paladins, other races, and other nations under the Zakarum. Our hero Paladin, however, comes from this one isolated province.

The western half of the Empire suffers a secular corruption: grown too dependent on word from Travincal, Duncraig grows ever fearful and paranoid when the mother capital ceases contact with the distant province. Westmarch panics and acts in what it sees as actions of defensive occupation. Knowing what had happened underneath Tristram and knowing that Diablo walks the earth only fuels that panic further. The eastern half of the Zakarum Empire, of course, falls under spiritual corruption, namely because Mephisto himself is running the show from Travincal.

The depicted description of the Zakarum Empire I made at first illustrates it has its origins in the east— but the empire itself has grown to encompass many more things. The current administrations of the Zakarum, painted by their origins but run by their present needs and desires, is a bit more complex than any simple and short description I write here can reveal.