Van Darnus's Song's Latin Lyrics

[Niqote]

I was right =O

You usually are ;p

[Yrusama]

Even though it isn't Uematsu writing anymore, I think all of the music so far has followed the trend Final Fantasy was expected to go before XII and XIII went completely in a different direction.

I won't spoil anything, but this battle SCREAMS Final Fantasy from the highest mountain in Coerthas! It is everything I could have ever asked for as a fan, and I am deeply grateful. XIV is quickly becoming a stronger Final Fantasy title than anything else in the past decade, even though the one-player titles are arguably easier to pick up.

[mekia]

Even though it isn't Uematsu writing anymore, I think all of the music so far has followed the trend Final Fantasy was expected to go before XII and XIII went completely in a different direction.

I won't spoil anything, but this battle SCREAMS Final Fantasy from the highest mountain in Coerthas! It is everything I could have ever asked for as a fan, and I am deeply grateful. XIV is quickly becoming a stronger Final Fantasy title than anything else in the past decade, even though the one-player titles are arguably easier to pick up.

And i hope they stick with it. The music of FFXIII-2 was fantastic, something different but it worked very well. I just hope SE wont listen to the "OMG this is different than my childhood FF music U SUCK NAOW QQ"

Great piece of music for a great battle!

[Yumi_Hibiki]

i love that song even more now that i know what the lyrics are ^~^
such a pompous bad guy hymn, i keep catching myself humming "imperium imperium imperium ave" even thou im not even on their side haha

[Destinova]

Someone said Sephiroth. If have not seen it here is his theme song, one winged angel translated ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AygsO...e_gdata_player

[Teakwood]

Am I insane, or are there some -really heavy- references to Adams, Nyman, and other really modern operatic composers being made in this track? My operatic minimalism recognition is a bit rusty, but it seems like the sound team is definitely pulling from an extremely wide - and extremely classical - pool of inspiration.

This was also my favourite thing about FF13's soundtrack - the influence of Debussy and Ravel, and of French impressionism in general, was unmistakable; I love being able to trace musical influences, and the music nerd part of me goes off on an unending squee tangent when it's to something relatively unknown these days. There's a lot of familiar organ toccatas and baroque choral influences, and a lot of modern rock, that are fairly common in VG music, but I love composers - like Mitsuda with his Celtic and world influences, and the FFXIV sound team - that go really far afield and compose things like this that sound really unique as well as incredibly epic.

I -love- this track, I love the XIV sound team; as much as I loved the original ST I'm beyond thrilled to hear the sound team will be doing a significant amount of work for 2.0's background tracks.

[Camate]

The other day I went on a rant at work and Bayohne called me crazy, because I was looping the Darnus song and swore that they were saying “Imperium, imperium, imperium ave.” Vindication is oh so sweet, because it seems players picked up on this as well!

It just so happens that there is a very good reason for this!

Grammatically the lyrics we introduced are correct:

Imperium!
Imperium!
Ave imperium!

However, what is actually sung is:

Imperium!
Imperium!
Imperium ave

“Imperium ave” is grammatically not really a natural expression; however, Latin is an extremely ambiguous language and it seems when Latin is sung anything goes, making this inversion okay!

Being a linguist, this kind of stuff gets me quite excited :P

[Jacien]

Square-Enix sure does love their Latin, eh?

[Punainen]

The other day I went on a rant at work and Bayohne called me crazy, because I was looping the Darnus song and swore that they were saying “Imperium, imperium, imperium ave.” Vindication is oh so sweet, because it seems players picked up on this as well!

It just so happens that there is a very good reason for this!

Grammatically the lyrics we introduced are correct:

Imperium!
Imperium!
Ave imperium!

However, what is actually sung is:

Imperium!
Imperium!
Imperium ave

“Imperium ave” is grammatically not really a natural expression; however, Latin is an extremely ambiguous language and it seems when Latin is sung anything goes, making this inversion okay!

Being a linguist, this kind of stuff gets me quite excited :P

I knew it was "Imperium Ave" from the start, but I didn't bother saying anything because I knew that "Ave Imperium" was still grammatically correct. Really, as long as its all within its same sentence, you can jumble the words as much as you want and its still correct.

[REDace0]

...Really, as long as its all within its same sentence, you can jumble the words as much as you want and its still correct.

And this is why Latin is awesome.