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If people had been quite literally blue, it would have been widely written about. You're talking about an era giving people nicknames based on their countenance

by Bayart 5y ago

If people had been quite literally blue, it would have been widely written about. You're talking about an era giving people nicknames based on their countenance and using any slight deformity for propaganda was quite common.

imglorp 5y ago
True. Or maybe they covered it up with cosmetics, another stereotype of aristocrats?
- msrenee 5y ago
  No.
sumedh 5y ago
> If people had been quite literally blue, it would have been widely written about. Some of the Hindu gods have blue skin, maybe they just had Methemoglobinemia.