Forespoken is actually less offensive to ancient culture because it's not really a problem to create a protagonist of any given race so long as it's not hamfisted (though to be fair, Forespoken was hamfisted) or historically broken.
For example, we can't have a bunch of black samurai just because there was ONE black samurai. He was an interesting figure, but the presence of a foreigner in a foreign land doesn't mean there were a bunch of them either.
When Kingdom Come Deliverance came out there was a lot of squawking because it was a historically themed medieval RPG set in Bohemia and it didn't have the racial demographics of a modern metropolis. There were the usual attempts at historic revisionism, citing reports of a single black person living in the capitol Prauge like a hundred years after the game takes place (the game doesn't even take place anywhere near Prague).
Forespoken is actually less offensive to ancient culture because it's not really a problem to create a protagonist of any given race so long as it's not hamfisted (though to be fair, Forespoken was hamfisted) or historically broken.
For example, we can't have a bunch of black samurai just because there was ONE black samurai. He was an interesting figure, but the presence of a foreigner in a foreign land doesn't mean there were a bunch of them either.
When Kingdom Come Deliverance came out there was a lot of squawking because it was a historically themed medieval RPG set in Bohemia and it didn't have the racial demographics of a modern metropolis. There were the usual attempts at historic revisionism, citing reports of a single black person living in the capitol Prauge like a hundred years after the game takes place (the game doesn't even take place anywhere near Prague).