What lore do you ignore?

[Cleretic]

Alphinaud pronounced Asahi two different ways between 5.x and Endwalker. 'Bahamut' is pronounced two different ways in the same cutscene at least once. This stuff generally doesn't bother me, mostly because I find English speakers have a lot of variance in pronunciation of things anyway, both personally and by dialect. And even in real life a lot of it's a hell of a lot bigger than stuff like the unwritten conjunctive vowel sound used in a one-letter name prefix.

Honestly, Alphinaud and Thancred consistently being different about Y'shtola's name, despite being friends with Y'shtola, just reads to me like she's not actually bothered by this at all. And yeah, that sounds like Y'shtola to me.


Looking to the Japanese VO seems like a good angle, but I find it's not as useful of one as you'd want, since often the names vary in spelling or pronunciation anyway; 'Krile' is just 'Kururu' (which is why she's a lalafel), Mhach's official pronunciation is completely different from how it's written in Japan because Japanese straight-up doesn't have the 'ch' sound it uses.