I don’t think it has any influence from any language, not like Kulta. Maybe he was also named after a constellation, like the Toa.
No, someone actually found it out.
Or maybe Makuta wasn’t evil then, and Kulta wasn’t evil as well.
Seems like Kulta is just a loyal follower of Makuta. His secretary, if you will. Makuta goes “bad”, Kulta just tags along. Something tells me that the underworld is filled with a whole bunch of skull-beings, who might be oppressed by the Okotans because of how “scary” they look. Makuta may have helped them with political representation during his rule as a mask maker, keeping peace between them and the pretentious Okotans. Once Makuta falls and loses himself to the mask, Kulta and his kin still follow him out of respect and loyalty.
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Except… we did get it in black. Lava beast had black with red accents. Those red accents could be taken out due to this looking very preliminary
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Already realized my mistake. 
Man… Kulta is really discriminating his second lieutenant, like, not even mentioning him…
R.I.P Slicer…
You know what… Slicer vs. Basher, let’s do it!!!
@Mayple But he is still a lieutenant… Confirmed by the source that gave out Kulta’s name for the first time.
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He may have just picked up slicer in the city since he’s an arena champion
Ooook? He picks up Slicer, sees his potential and makes him a lieutenant
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The same source that said Slicer’s swords were fused to his hands. Right.
~W12~
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lel… But, doesn’t it seem plausable???
Anyways, I want Basher and Slicer to get names. LoSS… He’s just a pet.
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“Yo you, you’re good at fighting. Join us spooky scary skeletons to take over Okoto.”
“sure bruh”
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I was thinking more along the lines of
“you’re spoopy, I’m spoopy, I’m sure we can work something out eh?”
"INSANE LAUGHTER"
“WE GOT ANOTHER ONE BOYS”
-unenthusiastic "yay"s echo throughout the skull army-
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Is he on holiday? Or incognito?
- I couldn’t resist! LOL
Anyways, I actually think that LEGO is considering that idea. I mean, they named the Hunter ‘Umarak’, and they called the Skull Grinder ‘Kulta’.
Then, in the book Escape from the Underworld, it seems like there are going to be some skullies called Skull Raiders.
Maybe the skeleton who “set-wise stole Kopaka’s mask” is THE Skull Warrior (like he’s the best warrior, so that is actually considered as his title) and his followers are the Skull Raiders.
The downside to this idea:
In JtO, Kopaka announces the City is ambushed by the arrival of dormant “Skull Warriors!”
But maybe that’s because the Toa do not (hypothetically) know that there is only one Skull Warrior and the ones in JtO were Skull Raiders.
But that’s just what I think.
I really do hope that the rest of the Skull Villains get names though…
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The Skull people are the Mutants from Futurama.
This makes Makuta a good guy since he is fighting for the rights of his oppressed Okotan citizens which are also treated as sub-humans, forced to live in the underworld while the uptight villagers have the surface all for themselves.
Even people with disabilities (Skull Scorpios) are welcomed in his community.
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I’m unsure whether this has been mentioned or not, but has anyone noticed that Umarak’s name is literally Shadow Hunter, the Hunter
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Well, “Kanohi mask” means “mask mask”, so…
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still want to see it in real life,
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the top part looks like a brain from brain attack
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I got the sets on the Lego website!!! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
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In actuality the name Umarak comes from real life languages such as Serbian and its variants, and other Slavic languages. A bit change from the original words yes, this what the story writer has said to have been doing with the Protector names (Kivoda has the word “Voda” in his name which means “water” in Serbian).
Umarak comes from the words “U mrak”, which mean in the shadows/in the darkness (both the name and those words are pronounced almost if not completely the same depending on how you pronounce the phonetic letters). Mash them together, add a letter or two to connect them all, ignore grammar, and you have a name for the best villains of G2 so far.
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