Wouldn’t that be spelt more Eg or Egi as in Egill skallagrimsson?
I’m going to pronounce it as Edge like @MarkG . Only because if Mantic went with the correct ethnic pronunciations Basilea would be pronounced Vasilea like the Greek Basileus (king), which I think sounds better!
It could be pronounced following the Irish/Gaelic naming convention - ie it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any of the letters in the name in question!
The Irish alphabet doesn’t have the same number of letters. So for certain letters, if some are together they make the more familiar English letter. For example the name Sadhbh, is pronounce Sive.
It takes a while to get used to.
Regarding the Ej, to me I pronounced it like the first Eej in eejit.
Are halflings simple minded in the Mantic world? Or do you need a big amount of british humour to get the funny thing?
I will call it E Jay like DJ. And expect many people dancing there.