Ascian Language Confusion

[Iscah]

I think it's simple enough to assume that it's just being translated for the player's benefit.

If an Ascian is "speaking Ancient" in the modern world, you need a special text box to indicate that their speech is different and non-Echo characters can't understand it.

If everyone is speaking Ancient to each other, you can drop the convention so it won't be a huge chunk of the story all written in red-on-black text.

[MikkoAkure]

If everyone is speaking Ancient to each other, you can drop the convention so it won't be a huge chunk of the story all written in red-on-black text.

I think it's more of this than anything else.

The Au Ra NPC in the MIN/BTN EW quests drops some Ancient language on us and it comes out with the same ShB sound effect and text box. But that would get old after hours and hours of NPCs talking to you. Plus the main 4 in the MSQ are all voice acted anyway so there'd be some disconnect when it switched to that in non-voiced cutscenes.