On 4/5/2010 at 12:54 PM, gotbliven said:

 

Uhm, correct me if I'm wrong here, but as I remember it, when Rand and Mat first came to Caemlyn, the people were discribed as very varied, something about the skin colors ranging from "too dark" to "too pale".  After all, Caemlyn is one of the biggest cities, I don't think anyone would have raised an eyebrow at Rhavin just because he was black.

Tuon looked up at him through her eyelashes,a black porcelain doll in a dress...From Crossroads of Twilight...A Cluster of Rosebuds, p.617