its really weird how thorough it is and there are a ton of examples. new spiderman movies, mary jane is black. little mermaid black. starfire black (though still a redhead, which is interesting). triss in the witcher is black (though brunette in the books not the game). orphan annie is black now. wally west is now black (flash movie). they turned cyclone (a redhead with storm powers) into a black lady, which is kinda a trope at this point... hawk girl is black now, cw rendition of arrow. bat woman is black now. april o'neil from TMNT. heimdall in the marvel comics was a redhead but black now. beau from she-ra was redheaded but black now. the thing's wife is now black. alice monahan from hellboy is now black. artemis in wonder woman used to be a redhead. judge renslayer in loki (from the most recent thing). bat girl is black now. the character design of domino in deadpool is very cool though.
i think itd be lit if we got some historical african religious stories with a fantastical twist, i really would like to see some authentic stuff rather than just copy pasting black people over redheads. wakanda is an example but the fusion there does africa dirty, i think. theres so many cultures and so many dead myths and religions to explore that simply havent even been considered. they could make some fantastic watching material that no one has considered or seen before.
or just come up with new characters and weave them into plot importance
Triss is in the Striga episode, i.e. where I had to officially check out because of how they butchered what was one of the best stories and trivially easy to adapt into television for no fucking reason other than pure vanity. If I kept watching, then I would've gotten to check out in the next episode where Queen Calanthe shows up literally covered in blood to a banquet.
I don't remember any details of that, but then I was pretty drunk while watching the whole thing since it was around the holidays.
How’d they ruin it?
if you've seen the show, go read it, it's like 20 pages. They turned Foltest from an empathetic and intelligent king, "Slim and pretty -- too pretty" into some fat imbecile, they turned Ada's parentage from common knowledge (atleast within the aristocracy) into a terrible secret just so that Geralt can show how smart he is by doing a Sherlock Holmes style deduction when he meets Foltest. Foltest threatens to kill Geralt, when one of the most memorable things he does in the books is assure Geralt he wont be harmed if he has to kill Ada in self-defense, just that he try and save her. They add Triss into the story and then have nothing for her to do, and it probably fucks with her character's chronology.
I've only read the short story.
I forget what the twist or like...mystery was....I think one of the advisors was in love with Foltest sister-wife? or something?
I don't remember.