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Hello all,

As the subject suggests my question is how do you pronounce the forgeworld Stygies VIII my brother is collecting admech and really likes their forgeworld trait.

Much appreciated!

In my opinion:

St as in Staple
y as in I don't know how to explain this sound
gies as in Jeez (corruption of the English pronunciation of Jesus, or if you were saying he has an acceleration of two Gs).

https://translate.google.ie/?um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob#en/en/Stygies I think Google Translate says it correctly.

Someone with more s

 BaconCatBug wrote:
In my opinion:

St as in Staple
y as in I don't know how to explain this sound
gies as in Jeez (corruption of the English pronunciation of Jesus, or if you were saying he has an acceleration of two Gs).

https://translate.google.ie/?um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob#en/en/Stygies I think Google Translate says it correctly.

Someone with more s

Seems about right. The 'y' would be pronounced 'eye'.

So you get 'St-eye-jeez'.

Someone else may know better though.

It's based on Ancient Greek so would be "stih-jeez", with the y as a short i sound, and the g as a j.

Oh jeez Rick I don't know..
Oh Jeez!

On a more serious note, Conan has had Stygian for decades and is pronounced like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMVG4fGeyI

 JohnnyHell wrote:
It's based on Ancient Greek so would be "stih-jeez", with the y as a short i sound, and the g as a j.

Ancient Greek as we know it should use, as you've mentioned, a soft g-sound before i or e, but it would probabĺy be more like a Y than a J. Second, Ancient Greek doesn't blend vowels the way English does, so the "ie" most probably doesn't become the English "ee" sound, but more like "ee" followed by "e."

So something like "sty-yee-es"

That said, this is all muddled by the fact that it's written in the modern alphabet rather than alpha through omega, and it's a fantasy setting, and no one knows what sounds the 40k people are reading certain letters as, so pronounce it however you like.

Edit: changed my pronunciation key to a simple S at the end, as English is the only language I know that changes s to z at the end of words.
Edit2: Actually, looking into it, it's modern Greek that has soft Gs, while classical only has hard Gs before vowels. And apparently the name of the Stygians had something or other to do with the river Styx, which would imply a hard G. Honestly, no matter what anyone tells you is the "right" way to pronounce it, they're gonna be wrong.

 Purifier wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
It's based on Ancient Greek so would be "stih-jeez", with the y as a short i sound, and the g as a j.

Ancient Greek as we know it should use, as you've mentioned, a soft g-sound before i or e, but it would probabĺy be more like a Y than a J. Second, Ancient Greek doesn't blend vowels the way English does, so the "ie" most probably doesn't become the English "ee" sound, but more like "ee" followed by "e."

So something like "sty-yee-ez"

That said, this is all muddled by the fact that it's written in the modern alphabet rather than alpha through omega, so pronounce it however you like.

I did say 'based on'. ;-)

Sty-jeez seems to be the most common pronunciation I have heard.

Sti as in stipple

gee as in gee whiz

an as in another.

I always pronounced it "Stih-jeez". I just assumed Sty was pronounced the same as it is in River Styx.

I always took it as a play on "Stygian" so like that word with the -an replaced by an s.

I'd been saying it as St-eye-jess, but I've mispronounced words all my life.

I blame the French, mostly.

Stihgeez Eight.

French speaker here, I pronounce it "Sty-jee-ess".

"Stygian" is a somewhat well-known word over in US, so not sure about other countries. It's pronounced "stih-jee-un" so I would assume Stygies would be pronounced "stih-jees"

Gonna need yet another FAQ with more missed game-breaking writing... sigh...

At least it's pronounced that way where I am and I haven't heard anyone who actually knew what they were talking about pronouncing it any different.

I'm the only one in my FLGS to pronounce it though, I'm probably the only active AdMech player here haha

 Purifier wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
It's based on Ancient Greek so would be "stih-jeez", with the y as a short i sound, and the g as a j.

Ancient Greek as we know it should use, as you've mentioned, a soft g-sound before i or e, but it would probabĺy be more like a Y than a J. Second, Ancient Greek doesn't blend vowels the way English does, so the "ie" most probably doesn't become the English "ee" sound, but more like "ee" followed by "e."

Ancient Greek (at least Koine and Attic, the two forms that I know) doesn't have a soft "g" (though google tells me that Modern Greek does!). Whether consonants are blended together into a diphthong or not is indicated by a tilde over the vowel., e.g., Βασιλεύς (nominative) vs. Βασιλεῦ (vocative).

The river Styx, from which Stygies is presumably derived, is pronounced "Stuks" with a long "u," so "Stooks." I'm not going to pronounced "Stygies" as "Stoogeez" however, because I think it sounds silly!

Again, I said "based on". ;-)

Stih-jee-an (Stygian)
Stih-jeez (Stygies)

These are to my knowledge the most current modern pronunciations of these words.