>>2131721
That and he should really have been based on a Sudanese or other locality that Romans had established contact with.
The more plausibly Afro-American he looks, the worse it is for plausible deniability about forcing American equality initiatives here.

It's a bit like making a game about the settling of America and making all the English settlers look Indian.
Yeah, sure, there were gypsies in Europe, and the settlers were usually people on the lowest rung of society but you can't handwave that to have people accept clearly modern Indian looking folks colonising North America out of England in the 16th century. It's just as obvious as not making one of the colonists based on some obese ball of lard office worker from the local community because it would not look right in the context unless he was a parody of a glutonous priest/monk.