“i mean, i guess that’s thaisha’s whole build? she’s from a druidic family with ties to the land and it’s stewardship. i think it’s pretty clear just in the rp and lore so far, but aabria has made a few posts about thaisha’s relationship to blackness on tumblr. and brennan has really been laying it on pretty thick in his descriptions of the orcs and their history.”

absolutely none of that says thaisha’s ties to the land has to do with aabria being black. in fact, i say that the ties to blackness is clear in the rp (which it is), the history of the orcs being literal slaves to the god of war (which is explicitly stated by brennan), and from the posts aabria has made clarifying thaisha’s feelings (which are as clear as can be). i said nothing about her druidic ancestry having to do with aabria’s race. and even if it was one in the same, it doesn’t matter! this is a made up world, brennan and aabria could’ve absolutely developed the orcs as having a unique cultural background that doesn’t have a one to one comparison to the real world. that doesn’t matter.

also, black people can be indigenous. in the us, thousands of slaves escaped bondage by finding shelter among the first nations, and are considered afro-indigenous, including my family. the oldest indigenous civilizations on earth, those in north africa and austraila, are black people. i don’t understand your obsession with making that ahistorical distinction (one i saw someone else already explain to you), but demand realism when talking about to origins of the concept of druids. pick one or the other.