Ursula K. LeGuin’s decades-old complaints about fantasy protagonists, articulated in a marvelous Slate article about the relationship between her books and the miniseries bearing the Earthsea name, ring true:

I didn’t see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill. I didn’t see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white (and why all the leading women had “violet eyes”).

Abigail Moore is a redhead, with pale skin. Every other major character (including the two principals in THIEF) has olive, tan or coffee-colored skin. Religion divides the colonists, greed corrupts and the desire for power still sets faction against faction.

But while people from many different ethnicities can be found in the New World, ‘race’ as a concept isn’t considered useful or germane. (I’m not sure it’s useful anywhere. But in my fictional world of Northern Arcadia, on this point, people happen to agree with me.)