Didn't his hand exist long before he was introduced? And it is white, he was race changed for backstory and then an artist made him the skin color he was originally. And the character is based off the white dude that inspired the magic system.
His hand is dying and decaying completely deprived of blood, it doesn't matter what color you were beforehand, any hand in those conditions is gonna be soo much paler, it's not even remotely logical or fair to use that as a metric of his original skin color
It is when they clearly weren't thinking of that in the 80's when the item was introduced considering it is a character based off of a white dude who's magic system they used to make dnd
My guy, the character being based on a real white guy has absolutely nothing to do with his character. They have changed the race of characters before, it's not a suddenly new thing.
Also, I don't think you actually even know what that phrase means, because unless Vance was a wizard who loved necromancy Vecna isn't based off of him, it's named after him. Which is a pretty important distinction considering the topic at hand
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u/Mamoswole Nov 10 '24
Didn't his hand exist long before he was introduced? And it is white, he was race changed for backstory and then an artist made him the skin color he was originally. And the character is based off the white dude that inspired the magic system.