Something I'm curious about. The "
Ring of the Lucii" Square Enix turned into a piece of merchandise, and that is the hereditary possession of the Caelum line. I'm wondering whether the last word is pronounced "Luce-I" or "Luce-E". I'm really not good on Latin pronunciation. Heck, for ages I was misreading "Glauca" as something like "Glausa"!
I'd say it's "Lucy-ee".
The thing about Latin is that there are a few different ways to pronounce it. This is because the original pronunciation was lost after the fall of Roman Empire but for many centuries it was still used as people's second language all over Europe. The pronunciation "evolved" differently im different regions, often accomodating some elements of the local language.
Here's a nice rundown of the main four ways.
As you can see, there's also "reconstructed ancient Roman pronunciation" which is the closest to what Latin originally sounded like. You could say it's the most "correct" way, but it's not the way used in FFXV. From what we already heard, the game uses the English pronunciation. For example,
Lucis is pronounced as
Lu-sees and not
Lu-kees.
But I also think that FFXV likely won't be very faithful to any particular way of pronunciation. It's a fantasy world that doesn't have to feature historically accurate Latin, so they may just go with whatever way makes individual words sound prettiest.
