The Witcher features many different contries and Irish sounding names are not that common in the universe. But while I played the 2 first games, I'm not vety familiar with setting, so I could be wrong. The universe felt diverse to me and more inspired from Germany/Eastern Europe.
To me English sounding names are somewhat exotic since it's not my native language. It's French but the funny thing is that many French towns names sounds odd to me.
Anyway, i did a map with English names, some are from old English like the title, Ondoerr, Meinland, Miskuun, and probably others but I can't differentiate them for modern English. https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...3&d=1425431662
Some names are also inspired by the horror theme (inspiration was Ravenloft).
More recently I started working on another horror inspired map. It's more like Lovecraft so you have a lot of England and Massachusetts sounding names. https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...9&d=1526055714
I used several settings for inspiration like my own previous maps (White Hill, Eagle earie...), Dark souls, and a greek Philosopher... Pliny: there is a meaning. And Luciferin is not a reference to Lucifer.
And the roads makes a pentagram if you look closely.
I have one chinese themed map: https://www.cartographersguild.com/a...2&d=1505272910
Some names are pretty poetic like one mountain range is named Emerald serpent but others are less so, like the one Soaked Wet province. Still very illustrative of the wet local climate.
One province is named golden elephant, because they are rich like they could own a big elephant made of gold.
Most names have a real meaning but some might be odd for chinese since they might invert the two syllables, otherwise the same syllables but in the wrong order might sound like nonsense. Like the car green instead of the green car.
The west has Indian sounding names because my neighbour (Janantala Elubor) has what I think sounds Indian.
The names of my neighbours have been sinized (to become chinese). And some border names have been deformed to show some sort of linguistic mix.
The actual name of the dynasty is Kún. While the syllable Kun do exist in Chinese, my Kun meaning is different and the writing is unique. That character does not exist in Chinese, the one on the flag but is somewhat similar to the Song dynasty standard.
I had a document with most of the name with their meaning. If I find it, I can post it here if you are interested. Or I can go on just by memory.
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