I'd say Calormenes are, as per book canon, dark skinned. Whatever the reason. Not just as per "Aracor" mixed race couple, but also because in LB Tirian, Jill and Eustace dye their faces to look Calormene.Lily of Archenland wrote:Re: India, you do have a number of nations with a large variety of skin tones in their inhabitants, even among groups of inhabitants who have been there a very long time. It's possible that the Calormenes in VDT were a different ethnic group than the dominant group in the region where Shasta was born...
(Speaking of "Aracor", it adds up to 440 in upper case ascii code).