Nofretete was also considered the most beautiful women of her time aswell...
I get it that Romans preffered lighter skin tones but there are several remarks in history saying that especially Egypt royality was among the most beautiful women of their time, Persia also has some records about their women being considered beautiful in differnt eras.
The game likely plays dureing Cesar or Augustus times I'd assume so Alexanders era would be over already but the romans fascination with the conqueror should still be strong
Well, Nofretete lived 1300 BC, that's long before the Romans mattered in the Mediterranean. I'm not denying that she was considered to be beautiful by her contemporaries.
Since Ludus Master plays in the Roman Era, don't know if Roman Republic or Roman Empire, but I guess the latter, I'd suggest to take the Roman perspective on things.
Cleopatra lived ~50 BC, but her dynasty was of Greek/Macedon origin and they remained Greek/Macedon. Egypt also had enclaves of Greek settlers, including Greek Temples since the Macedon conquest ~300 BC. So Cleopatra most likely had a Greek phenotype, not an Egyptian one. Most historians would agree, that they (the Ptolemaic dynasty) adopted Egyptian customs for the public in order to increase acceptance for their rule, but behind closed doors they remained Greek/Macedon culturally.
But for the Romans of course the Egyptian culture was considered to be way more exotic than the Greek/Macedon one. So Cleopatra also put on a show of exoticness, to impress Julius Caesar and later also Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony). She knew how to seduce powerful men after all in order to secure her semi-independent rule over Egypt, despite the Roman conquest.
Anyway, it's fun discussing these histopric topics, but we are getting off-topic here and might derail the thread. In the end
velesk needs to decide how he wants to implement new slave backgrounds.
I guess, we agree,
Evangelion-01 that we both would appreaciate more diverse slave backgrounds, than just the 3 being present in the game for now.
We just made some suggestions. I think the easiest way would be to add new slave backgrounds as compromises of the existing ones. Like this we can have more diversity and not much needs to be changed actually (the 3 main attributes: beauty, intelligence, vitality could stay as they are like this).