Manor Lords players delighted to discover a villager with an NSFW name, but the developer says it's historically accurate
One of the joys of playing a city builder is peering down at the little people on your screen and watching what they're doing. Manor Lords is no exception—it's fun to sit back and observe your little 14th century peasants working in the fields, constructing buildings, and lugging resources from here to there as they go about their daily lives.
With a million Manor Lords players now closely watching the comings and goings of their villagers, one peasant's name keeps coming up because, well, it's kinda funny:
Cuntz.
That's right, a villager named Cuntz has already become a minor celebrity since Manor Lords launched into early access a few days ago. Check your own village and you'll probably find one, and since names are distributed randomly among your peasants, your Cuntz might be different from someone else's' Cuntz. For one player their Cuntz might be working (or not working) as an ox handler, but my own Cuntz is currently a gravedigger.
Funnily enough, Cuntz isn't always a peasant. Several players have reported having an ox named Cuntz in their village. And don't forget about Lord Cuntz, because when you're starting a new game your character may also randomly receive that name:
Yes, it's all very childish to be giggling over a somewhat NSFW name, but according to Manor Lords developer Grzegorz Styczeń, the joke was not intended. In a comment posted to Reddit, Styczeń stated that the name Cuntz, like all the names in Manor Lords, is historically accurate for the time period and region.
«Names were taken from a XIV century HRE census and then are assigned randomly without any special bias,» Styczeń said.
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Another reddit user filled in a few more blanks: «Cuntz or 'Kunz' in the German regions was a shortened form of the very common name 'Konrad' and itself a very common name then,» CaptainMacObvious wrote, adding that another common name was Hinz, short for Heinrich (Henry).
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