Revelations from Encyclopaedia Eorzea III

[SannaR]

I don't know why so many didn't see the Vauthry/Innocence parts there in Fatebreaker. There is clear Lightwarden parts to the design that only come from Innocence. I think some knew that the final Mt. Gaulg boss was that poor au ra girl who panicked that she couldn't sing anymore. Just now it has an easier place for people to point to.

[Cleretic]

I don't know why so many didn't see the Vauthry/Innocence parts there in Fatebreaker. There is clear Lightwarden parts to the design that only come from Innocence. I think some knew that the final Mt. Gaulg boss was that poor au ra girl who panicked that she couldn't sing anymore. Just now it has an easier place for people to point to.

Honestly, it's actually unclear if Forgiven Obscenity was the Canary; my reading of the EE3's hinting was that the Canary was killed and fed to sin eaters, and the Obscenity may have been an entirely different performer.

...which in retrospect is basically adding extra layers of horror and misdirection just for the sake of it. Which I would be mad about if this was something that ever mattered, but when it's a character/characters this minor, and the context is already horrifying to a point where neither angle is out-of-place, y'know what, go ahead.

As for the Fatebreaker: I know I've been calling it 'Than'jinnocence' for years, but I guess there's people who shuffled that part back far enough that they didn't notice, or didn't care enough to take note.

[YianKutku]

-Forgiven Obcenity *WAS* formely the singer who was punished by Vauthry in MSQ.

Honestly, it's actually unclear if Forgiven Obscenity was the Canary; my reading of the EE3's hinting was that the Canary was killed and fed to sin eaters, and the Obscenity may have been an entirely different performer.

It's quite clear from EE3 that Forgiven Obscenity, the third boss of the Mount Gulg dungeon, is not the Canary. The implication is the Canary met a grisly end, whether the interpretation of "killed and fed to Sin Eaters" or "turned into Sin Eater, then turned into meol".

However, Forgiven Obscenity was already present and a Sin Eater before the Canary was killed. EE3 states that Forgiven Obscenity was one of Vauthry's favourites, which again implies she was one of the lounging Sin Eaters we see when we first encounter Vauthry on our first visit to Eulmore.

However, I honestly can't recall if Vauthry had punished any singers in the MSQ. As in, he certainly didn't do it in front of us, but I can't recall if there was any offhand mention of some Beehive singer who offended Vauthry and was ominously Never Heard From Again.