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    Sage Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Lukha View Post
    I'm also deeply disappointed that (early SB spoilers)
    the Garlean national anthem was in English (Even with the Japanese track on) rather than Latin, since everything else about them is so Romanesque it hurts. In my heart it's only because The Echo is translating it for us, though.
    I guess I should put my response to this behind a spoiler quote too...? Spoiler alert for fairly early Stormblood MSQ.
    I'm embarrassingly fixated on the similarities between Garlemald and Ancient Rome (we all had that one ancient culture we were obsessed with as teenagers right? right??? mine was classical mythology and culture), so this kind of thing is something I've actually paid attention to too.
    If you listen carefully, at the tail end of that cutscene the anthem actually stops being in English (I don't know about with the English voice track, but when running the Japanese, the subtitles also stop at this point). It's difficult to make out clearly, but it does sound like it switches to Latin or faux-Latin. I'd like to take a whack at translating it, but I can't pick out what's being said well enough to do it. It could be because I'm terrible at picking out lyrics from choir vocals, or it could be because it's faux-Latin like with Ultima - which I'm still (jokingly) salty about. I really wanted the lyrics for that. I felt so betrayed.
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    Last edited by Tsvai; 06-21-2017 at 04:00 PM. Reason: 1000 character limit