I've been wondering about this ever since I got into Endless Legend a few years ago. Quite a few of the Vaulter hero names are actual Hungarian names.

I know some of them look Slavic but the order of first name and last name is swapped which is what they do in Hungarian thus it's more familiar to a native when he sees Petrov Judit and not Judit Petrov or Rill Kata instead of Kata Rill. The most obvious ones though are the likes of Liszt Ajandek and Toth Istvanka but you also have Bela and Pecs.

If any of the devs could shed some light on the creation process I'd be very interested to hear it.

Hopefully Spock sees this cuz I would like to know too 

I was wondering about this to. I remember how surprised i was to see some Valuters have hungarian names.

I've been reading through the Endless Legend hero descriptions of Vaulter heroes and picked up two city names that were mentioned.

Gyer - which can have its own meaning or was inspired by real-life Gyor.

Laskolc - probably inspired by real-life Miskolc.

The hero Pecs Kerre might have been named after the city of Pecs.

The name of Raudd Klapatch is of Slavic origin, "kalapacs" is also used in Hungarian and it means "hammer".

twimpix wrote:

I've been reading through the Endless Legend hero descriptions of Vaulter heroes and picked up two city names that were mentioned.

Gyer - which can have its own meaning or was inspired by real-life Gyor.

Laskolc - probably inspired by real-life Miskolc.

The hero Pecs Kerre might have been named after the city of Pecs.

The name of Raudd Klapatch is of Slavic origin, "kalapacs" is also used in Hungarian and it means "hammer".

You caught us :)

Of the two writers at Amplitude, one (me) is married to a woman with a large Hungarian family (her father's side), and the other (StoryEngine) lived in Budapest for a couple years.

That being said, we take names and naming conventions very seriously. For every faction we create, we want the names to be consistent and coherent (basic intelligent worldbuilding) as well as having some dramatic meaning for the narrative. That is why we stole "hammer" for Klapatch, why the names of the Lumeris families are derived from the old trading families of Genoa, why the names of the Drakken are based on Thai words and the names of the Wild Walkers on Native American vocabulary, etc. We want the names to all have a similar sound, but also have some sort of actual meaning.

Of course, sometimes we just make them up, like for the Sophons, or go outside the boundaries of a given culture, like having both Hungarian and Slavic names in the UE. Nobody's perfect!

-Slow

Slowhands wrote:

twimpix wrote:

I've been reading through the Endless Legend hero descriptions of Vaulter heroes and picked up two city names that were mentioned.

Gyer - which can have its own meaning or was inspired by real-life Gyor.

Laskolc - probably inspired by real-life Miskolc.

The hero Pecs Kerre might have been named after the city of Pecs.

The name of Raudd Klapatch is of Slavic origin, "kalapacs" is also used in Hungarian and it means "hammer".

You caught us :)

Of the two writers at Amplitude, one (me) is married to a woman with a large Hungarian family (her father's side), and the other (StoryEngine) lived in Budapest for a couple years.

That being said, we take names and naming conventions very seriously. For every faction we create, we want the names to be consistent and coherent (basic intelligent worldbuilding) as well as having some dramatic meaning for the narrative. That is why we stole "hammer" for Klapatch, why the names of the Lumeris families are derived from the old trading families of Genoa, why the names of the Drakken are based on Thai words and the names of the Wild Walkers on Native American vocabulary, etc. We want the names to all have a similar sound, but also have some sort of actual meaning.

Of course, sometimes we just make them up, like for the Sophons, or go outside the boundaries of a given culture, like having both Hungarian and Slavic names in the UE. Nobody's perfect!

-Slow

Thank you for the insight! I suspected that the answer might be similar and of course, it was a welcome surprise to see familiar names.

P. S.

For whoever else is interested in linguistics, another interesting snippet is from the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon that not many might know is that the tribe, that Obi-Wan and Anakin visits, speak Hungarian, though in a barely recognizable manner. This was due to the fact that creator Genndy Tartakovsky's wife is of Hungarian origin and they deemed that this obscure language sounded alien enough to use it in that setting. The moment I realized what they were saying when I first saw the series was hilarious. :)

Nelvanese