Why are the greek gods all black?

[Crescent]

What exactly were the devs looking for when they made this choice?

[Herr Sten]

They arent all black, and those who are are just a lil tan. Why does it bother you?

also greece is a warm country

[PsychoDino]

Originally posted by Faust:

What exactly were the devs looking for when they made this choice?

here we go

[Crescent]

Originally posted by Herr Sten:

They arent all black, and those who are are just a lil tan. Why does it bother you?

also greece is a warm country

It doesn't bother me, just curious, because I've never seen that before.
I'm curious about their artistic choices.

[Khurgan]

The devs have allready answered this question in another discussion. I will copy and paste it here:
"The Greek gods do not share the same ethnicity as mortals.

Our perspective on this comes from the oldest canonical myths, from Hesiod to Aeschylus to Homer: The Greek gods ruled over the entirety of existence on this planet.

The gods themselves were not Greek -- they sprang from primordial Chaos, rather than coming from Greece specifically. The are called 'Greek gods' because they were identified and worshipped by the Greeks, not because of their ethnicity.

I should add, Greek myth is filled with contradiction. There isn't really one single canon, just a family of ideas. These are some of the ideas we found compelling. You may have your own take."

[Projekt XIII]

Use the search function to see if your forum topic already exists.

You would've seen that this very topic was asked, answered, and summarily locked no more then a day after it's creation.

[Crescent]

Originally posted by Tsukasa:

Use the search function to see if your forum topic already exists.

You would've seen that this very topic was asked, answered, and summarily locked no more then a day after it's creation.

Ok I searched.
I found it.
And they didn't answer it.
They weren't pretty clear about it actually, just saying that it's open to interpretation, without saying why they interpret it that way.

This answers to Khurgan too.

You got to admit it's pretty unusual.

[FieserMoep]

Unusial? They are god born from chaos. Did you ever look around? Pinkish is a rather normal color. Havn't seen a black got yet.

[MAKAIROSI]

They aren't black, they're kinda grey-skinned. I see it as some sort of a god color?

Anyway, it's obviously an artistic choice. If you see what Aphrodite's face and body are depicted as (in ancient Greek paintings or statues) she's *completely* different than the Aphrodite we see here.

[FieserMoep]

Actual greeks, like Achilles etc. are all pretty white. Achilles is also Blonde. So in that regard parts of greek ethnicity are kept though they are kinda made more white-ish due to the afterlife.

[xanderx51]

wow...just wow..

[Naijiro]

This is really bad bait, especially considering someone already asked this question. I believe one of the devs said that the god's skin color doesn't matter, they're born from Chaos, they just happen to be greek because the greek people worshiped them.

Buy they themselves have no real ethnicity.

[Crescent]

Originally posted by FieserMoep:

Actual greeks, like Achilles etc. are all pretty white. Achilles is also Blonde. So in that regard parts of greek ethnicity are kept though they are kinda made more white-ish due to the afterlife.

I thought achilles had blue hair like ninja?

[Naijiro]

Originally posted by Faust:

Originally posted by Herr Sten:

They arent all black, and those who are are just a lil tan. Why does it bother you?

also greece is a warm country

It doesn't bother me, just curious, because I've never seen that before.
I'm curious about their artistic choices.

Don't give me that BS, you knew you were trying to bait responses with a title that loaded. It's clear that any topic about race, gender, politics or anything that personal is going to get some people triggered, so to fall back and feign ignorance now that it's already been asked and answered is sad.

You may as well delete the whole post, so you can save face and not look goofy.

[BALATRO #1 FAN]

b8?

[kid_zomb]

@Khurgan helpfully quoted my response from another thread but let me go ahead and repeat it as well so you have the nice little [developer] tag next to it:

The Greek gods do not share the same ethnicity as mortals.

Our perspective on this comes from the oldest canonical myths, from Hesiod to Aeschylus to Homer: The Greek gods ruled over the entirety of existence on this planet.

The gods themselves were not Greek -- they sprang from primordial Chaos, rather than coming from Greece specifically. The are called 'Greek gods' because they were identified and worshipped by the Greeks, not because of their ethnicity.

I should add, Greek myth is filled with contradiction. There isn't really one single canon, just a family of ideas. These are some of the ideas we found compelling. You may have your own take.

One more thing: Please be mindful of Steam's Discussions Rules and Guidelines when discussing this topic.