Okay so this might be an extremely silly question or something but there's a bit of a (rather polite) debate in a few circles over at teso-rp.com and it's over the physical appearance of Redguards.

Now there's one camp that believes they are -all- African in appearance, no exceptions. Chocolate skin, African facial features, hair, etc.

The other camp is on the side of Redguards being anywhere from African to Middle-Eastern in appearance. Like Moors to Arabs to Spaniards in variety. This happens to be where I personally stand on the matter as The Elder Scrolls universe is a wide and diverse place of all sorts of peoples and places.

I think we'd really like a response from an official source on the matter but linked sources would also suffice. There's only one picture on UESP and it's not a very good one since it shows one example from one gender. Anyway, please feel free to drop thoughts and opinions and if there's an official source or sources -please- link them!

Given the degree to which speculative fiction and games related to it tend to lapse into the mode of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfHats, I think I'd prefer to lean the other way and emphasize that Hammerfell and the Ra'gada are complex and varied.

I think that's where I am with it, too. Most of the 'sources' out there seem to be -trying- to not make a decision one way or the other. Though I've always tried to be cautious and not press any opinions as facts. >.<