Run: 2026-02-21-01KJ15QHFS1B1TCTG3X4QQRT6Q

Run Details

Model:: Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15)
Test:: Codex Red Herring (False Positive Detection)
Scenario:: Short text (~524 words), small codex (11 detailed entries)
Duration:: 1m 48s
Cost:: $0.020546
Provider:: Alibaba

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
50.00%	Correct "no violations" response	(details)
16.67%	No hallucinated violations	(details)
33.3333%	Overall

Model input

System

You are a meticulous continuity editor for a fiction project. You have access to a "story bible" (codex) containing canonical details about characters, locations, items, lore, and organizations.

Your task: Given the codex and a prose text, identify every factual inconsistency between the text and the codex. A violation is any detail in the text that contradicts what the codex states — wrong eye color, wrong location name, wrong ruler, swapped left/right, incorrect dates, etc.

Be thorough. Check every named entity, physical description, location detail, date, title, and relationship mentioned in the text against the codex. Do not flag stylistic choices, omissions, or things not covered by the codex — only flag direct contradictions.

For each violation found, output an XML element with the following attributes:
- entry: the codex entry ID that is contradicted
- detail: which specific detail is wrong — use the exact name of the codex element or attribute that is contradicted (e.g. "eyeColor", "species", "ruler", "material")
- paragraph: the 1-indexed paragraph number containing the violation
- substring: the exact substring from the text that contains the violation

The element body should contain a brief explanation of the contradiction.

Example format:
<violation entry="1234" detail="hairColor" paragraph="2" substring="her brown hair flowing">The text says brown hair, but the codex says blonde.</violation>

If you find no violations, output: <violations-none/>

Output ONLY the violation XML elements. Do not include any other text, preamble, or explanation outside the XML.

User/Human

<codex>
<character id="100" name="Torben Reikhart" aliases="Stray">
  <gender>Male</gender>
  <eyeColor>Green</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>Silver</hairColor>
  <description>A quiet, watchful man with an air of practiced patience. Torben moves through the world with the careful economy of someone who has learned that silence often reveals more than speech. His silver hair and green eyes mark him as distinctive even in a crowd, though he carries himself in a way that discourages attention. Those who know him call him Stray — a name he neither claims nor denies, as though identity itself were something he holds at arm’s length.</description>
  <backstory>Torben’s mother was an elf — a fact he rarely speaks of, though the heritage shows in subtle ways. He has wandered the coastal territories for years, never settling, never fully belonging to any one place. His reputation as a reliable, if enigmatic, figure has earned him contacts in towns and taverns from Dunmore to Port Gessik. He was drawn into Sable Dunmore’s cause by circumstances he keeps to himself, though those who travel with him sense that his reasons run deeper than obligation.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="101" name="Sable Dunmore">
  <species>Human</species>
  <gender>Female</gender>
  <age>28</age>
  <eyeColor>Brown</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>Auburn</hairColor>
  <description>Sable is a woman defined by loss and the refusal to be broken by it. She carries herself with a quiet intensity that makes the space around her feel charged, as though the air itself is aware of her determination. Auburn hair frames a face that is more resolute than warm, and her brown eyes hold the kind of focus that comes from years of channeling grief into purpose. She speaks plainly, without flourish, and expects the same from others.</description>
  <backstory>Raised in the port village of Dunmore on the salt cliffs, Sable grew up by the sea with her sister Petal and their father Jurren. When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did, but Petal did not survive — there was no body to recover, no remains to honor with a Kindling Rite. The loss of her sister has shaped every choice Sable has made since. She carries Petal’s silver locket at her throat and the dark iron blade Kindling at her side, and neither is ever far from her thoughts. She has since taken up the cause of confronting those responsible for the devastation The Felling left behind.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="102" name="Old Rivka">
  <gender>Female</gender>
  <description>Old Rivka is the kind of woman who has seen enough of the world to know that most of it isn’t worth commenting on. She tends bar at the Rusty Lantern with a steady, unhurried rhythm, polishing glasses and watching the door with the patience of someone who has outlived most of her regulars. Little escapes her notice — she knows the faces that come and go along the waterfront, remembers who owes what and to whom, and keeps her opinions to herself unless asked. Her age is a matter of speculation among the fishermen who frequent her establishment, though none have ever been bold enough to inquire directly.</description>
  <backstory>Rivka has run the Rusty Lantern for as long as anyone in the harbor district can remember. The tavern was already old when she took it over, and she has made no effort to restore what the salt and the years have eaten away. She knows Torben Reikhart by his wandering name — Stray — and is one of the few people who expected him to walk through her door on the night he arrived. Whatever history connects them, she keeps it behind the same measured expression she wears for everything else.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="103" name="Petal Dunmore">
  <gender>Female</gender>
  <description>Petal Dunmore is remembered more than she is known — a girl who did not survive The Felling, preserved now only in her sister Sable’s memory and in the silver locket that bears her name. She was fourteen years old when the war reached Dunmore, old enough to understand what was happening and young enough that it should not have been her burden to bear. No body was recovered after The Felling, and no Kindling Rite could be performed in her honor. What remains of Petal is a lock of her hair sealed inside the locket and the fierce, unrelenting grief of the sister who could not save her.</description>
  <backstory>Petal grew up in Dunmore with her sister Sable and their father Jurren. By all accounts she was a quiet child, more inclined to watch the fishing boats come and go from the salt cliffs than to venture far from home. When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. They ran. Petal did not make it. The circumstances of her death remain unspoken — Sable has never described what happened in the hours after they fled, only that her sister was lost and that nothing was left behind.</backstory>
</character>

<character id="104" name="Jurren Dunmore">
  <gender>Male</gender>
  <description>Jurren Dunmore was the father of Sable and Petal, a man known only through his daughter’s words and the single decisive act that defines his legacy. When The Felling reached the port village of Dunmore on the salt cliffs, it was Jurren who told Sable to take her sister and run — a command that speaks to both his protective instincts and his understanding that staying meant death. Whether Jurren survived The Felling himself is a question Sable has never answered, and those who know her have learned not to ask. He remains a figure shaped entirely by absence: a name, a command, and the silence that followed.</description>
  <backstory>Jurren raised his daughters in Dunmore, a coastal village that sat on the salt cliffs above the harbor. He was a practical man by necessity — life on the cliffs demanded it — and he understood the sea and the stone the way most people understand the ground beneath their feet. When the war came, he did what he could: he sent his children away. The fact that only one of them survived is a weight that belongs to the whole family, living and dead alike.</backstory>
</character>

<location id="105" name="The Rusty Lantern">
  <description>A salt-weathered tavern on the waterfront that sits crooked on its foundations, listing toward the harbor like a drunk leaning on a post. The planks were eaten through by salt years ago and never replaced. Smoke-blackened ceiling beams span a room where warped floorboards hold grooves deep enough to catch rainwater tracked in from outside. The light inside is perpetually dim — a handful of candles and the grudging glow through salt-crusted windows. Fishermen make up most of the regular crowd, hunched over their cups with the quiet endurance of men who work the sea. The Rusty Lantern is the kind of establishment that has survived not because anyone maintains it, but because the harbor needs a place to drink and this one has simply refused to fall down. Old Rivka tends the bar with the patience of someone who has been doing so longer than most of her patrons have been alive.</description>
</location>

<location id="106" name="Dunmore">
  <terrain>Coastal</terrain>
  <description>Dunmore was a port village perched on the salt cliffs above the sea, a settlement defined by its proximity to the water and the hard, practical people who made their living from it. The village is gone now — destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago. What remains is rock and old foundations, the bones of a place that once held families, fishing boats, and the rhythm of tidal life. The salt cliffs themselves still stand, indifferent to the war that erased the village from their shoulders. Dunmore’s name survives primarily through its connection to the Dunmore family — Sable, her sister Petal, and their father Jurren — who called the village home before the war scattered what it did not destroy. The terrain is coastal: wind-carved rock, salt spray, and the constant sound of the sea against stone.</description>
</location>

<item id="107" name="Kindling">
  <material>Dark iron</material>
  <objectType>Weapon</objectType>
  <power>Fire</power>
  <description>A sword forged from dark iron, Kindling carries a subtle but persistent fire along its edge — a shimmer so faint it is easy to miss, thin as a hair, visible only to those who watch closely. The blade is warm to the touch even in the coldest rooms, as though the metal itself remembers the heat of its making. Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling, and the word carries weight: it is both a reference to the fire the blade holds and an echo of the Kindling Rite, the funerary tradition of burning the dead with what they loved. In moments of great intensity, the fire along the edge has been known to flare beyond its wielder’s control, responding to forces that have nothing to do with the hand that holds it. The blade is a weapon, but it is also a symbol — of loss, of purpose, and of the unfinished work that drives Sable forward.</description>
</item>

<item id="108" name="Petal's Locket">
  <material>Silver</material>
  <objectType>Jewelry</objectType>
  <description>A silver locket worn at the throat by Sable Dunmore, containing a lock of her sister Petal’s hair — the only physical remnant of a girl lost during The Felling. The locket is small and unadorned, the kind of thing that could pass unnoticed on anyone else, but on Sable it carries the gravity of everything she has lost. Sable herself never speaks the name “Petal’s Locket” aloud; the title exists only in the understanding of those who know its significance. On rare occasions the locket has been observed to emit a brief, faint pulse of light — so subtle that witnesses have questioned whether they imagined it. Whether this glow is a residual enchantment, a response to proximity with other artifacts, or something else entirely remains unclear. The locket is not a weapon or a tool; it is a memorial, and Sable guards it with the fierce protectiveness of someone who has nothing else left of the person it represents.</description>
</item>

<lore id="109" name="The Felling">
  <timePeriod>Two centuries ago</timePeriod>
  <category>War</category>
  <description>The Felling was a catastrophic war that swept across the world approximately two centuries before the present day, leaving devastation in its wake on a scale that reshaped coastlines, destroyed settlements, and scattered populations. Along the coast, its effects were particularly severe — the port village of Dunmore was reduced to rock and old foundations, and countless other communities shared a similar fate. The Felling is spoken of with the weight of collective trauma: a conflict so vast and destructive that its consequences are still felt in the present, in ruined villages, in displaced families, and in the grief of those who survived it. The exact causes and participants of the war are a matter of historical record for some and living memory for others, though the specifics vary depending on who is asked. What is universally acknowledged is that The Felling broke the world — or at the very least, broke everything along the coast — and that the world has not fully recovered.</description>
</lore>

<lore id="110" name="The Kindling Rite">
  <category>Tradition</category>
  <description>The Kindling Rite is a funerary tradition in which the dead are burned alongside the things they loved — their tools, their letters, their personal effects — so that they might carry these possessions onward into whatever comes after death. The ritual requires a body; without one, the Rite cannot be performed, and the dead are considered to have departed without the comforts of the familiar. The name itself evokes fire as both destroyer and deliverer, a force that transforms rather than simply consumes. For those who observe the tradition, the Kindling Rite is an act of love and release — a way of honoring the dead by giving everything to the flame so that nothing is held back. The inability to perform the Rite is considered a profound loss, compounding grief with the knowledge that the departed was denied a proper farewell. The tradition’s origins are unclear, though it appears to predate The Felling and to have been practiced widely in coastal communities before the war disrupted the continuity of local customs.</description>
</lore>
</codex>

<text>
The Rusty Lantern sat crooked on its foundations, listing toward the harbor like a drunk leaning on a post. Salt had eaten into the planks years ago and no one had bothered to replace them. The ceiling beams were black with smoke. Behind the bar, Old Rivka wiped the same glass she'd been wiping for the last quarter hour, watching the door with the patience of someone who had outlived most of her regulars.

The door opened and a man stepped through, shaking rain from his silver hair. Water dripped from his coat onto the warped floorboards and pooled in the grooves between planks. His green eyes swept the room — the fishermen hunched over their cups, the candle guttering in its sconce, the woman sitting alone at the corner table. He smelled of wet wool and the cold air off the harbor. Old Rivka raised her chin. "Stray," she called across the room. "Didn't think you'd show." He didn't answer. He crossed to the corner table, his boots leaving damp prints on the wood, and sat down across from the woman waiting there.

Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old, human, and tired of waiting. Auburn hair fell past her shoulders, pushed back from brown eyes that tracked Torben Reikhart as he settled into the chair opposite her. On the table between them lay a sword — Kindling, she called it. A dark iron blade, the metal faintly warm even in the chill of the tavern. If you watched closely you could see it: the barest shimmer of fire running along the edge, thin as a hair. At her neck hung a silver locket. Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud. "It still has her hair inside," she said, touching it once. "That's all I have left of her."

Torben waited. He'd learned when to be quiet.

"My sister Petal," Sable said. "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore. You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago. Jurren — our father — he told me to take Petal and run. I did. She didn't make it."

Torben didn't ask the obvious question. Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it. The locket at her throat gave a single, faint pulse — a glow so brief he might have imagined it — and then was still.

Sable's hand moved to the locket again. "We couldn't give her a Kindling Rite. You know the tradition? You burn the dead with what they loved. Their tools. Their letters. You give it all to the fire so they carry it onward. But there was no body to burn. Nothing left of her but this locket and whatever I can remember." She looked at Torben. "Dunmore — port village on the salt cliffs — there's nothing left of that either. Just rock and old foundations."

Torben said, "Then we'd better make it count."

Sable picked up Kindling and sheathed it. They left the Rusty Lantern without another word. The rain had stopped. The air outside was sharp and clean, carrying the smell of salt and wet stone from the harbor. Somewhere down the waterfront a shutter banged in the wind. Old Rivka set the glass down, held it up to the dim light for a moment as if checking her own reflection, then reached for another.
</text>

Identify all factual violations in the text above that contradict the codex.

Model response

<violation entry="101" detail="age" paragraph="4" substring="Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it.">The text implies a contradiction between Sable's age (28) and her presence at a war 200 years ago. However, the codex establishes she is 28 and the war was 200 years ago; she was not present at the war (she was unborn), but is speaking of the event that destroyed her home. The narration frames her speaking of it "as though she'd stood in the middle of it" as a strange anomaly due to her age, whereas the codex explains she is simply recounting her father's command and her sister's death during that historical event, not claiming personal presence in the war itself. More critically, the text says "she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it," which contradicts the codex backstory where she was a child (or unborn? Codex says she grew up there, so she was alive) during The Felling. Wait, if The Felling was 200 years ago, and she is 28, she could not have been there. The codex says "When The Felling reached the coast... Sable grew up by the sea... When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run." This implies The Felling happened during her childhood. But Lore 109 says The Felling was "Two centuries ago". This is a contradiction within the codex itself or my reading of it. Let's re-read Lore 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war... approximately two centuries before the present day... Dunmore was reduced to rock...". Character 101 Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast... Sable grew up...". If Sable is 28 and the war was 200 years ago, she couldn't have been there. The text highlights this: "Twenty-eight years old... spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it." The text treats this as a weirdness. But if the codex says she *was* there (backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast... Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run"), then the Codex has an internal contradiction regarding the timeline (200 years vs 28 years old). However, the prompt asks for inconsistencies between *text* and *codex*. The text explicitly states she is 28 and the war was 200 years ago, and frames her knowledge as if she were there. The codex *also* says she was there ("When The Felling reached the coast..."). The violation is actually in the *text's* narration questioning her presence, or perhaps the text is correctly identifying a plot point? No, wait. If the codex says the war was 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, she *cannot* have been there. The Codex Backstory for Sable says "When The Felling reached the coast... Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run." This implies she was present. This is an internal codex contradiction. But I must find text vs codex violations.
Let's look closer. Is it possible "The Felling" lasted 200 years? No, Lore 109 says "swept across the world... two centuries before the present day".
Maybe the violation is that the text says she spoke of it *as though* she stood in the middle of it, implying she didn't? But the codex says she *did* (she ran from it).
Actually, the most obvious violation is simpler. The text says: "Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it." This narration suggests it is impossible for her to have stood in the middle of it. But the Codex (101 Backstory) explicitly states: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did..." This confirms she *was* there. Therefore, the text's implication that her speaking of it as an eyewitness is contradictory to her age (implying she wasn't there) contradicts the Codex which says she *was* there. Wait, if the war was 200 years ago, and she is 28, the Codex *also* contains a contradiction.
Unless... "The Felling" in the backstory refers to a local skirmish with the same name? No, Lore 109 defines "The Felling" as the war 200 years ago.
Okay, let's assume the Codex is the truth. If the Codex says she was there, and the Codex says the war was 200 years ago, then Sable must be 200+ years old, or the "200 years" is wrong.
Codex 101 says Age: 28.
Codex 109 says Time: 200 years ago.
Codex 101 Backstory says she was there.
This is an internal codex error. However, usually in these tasks, one part of the codex is the "fact" and the other is context. If the character profile says "Age 28", that is a hard fact. If the lore says "200 years ago", that is a hard fact. The backstory saying she was there might be the error in the codex, OR the text is pointing out the impossibility.
BUT, look at the text again. The text says: "Twenty-eight years old... but she spoke... as though she'd stood in the middle of it." The narrator finds this strange. If the Codex says she *did* stand in the middle of it, then the text's narration (implying she couldn't have) is the violation of the established reality that she *was* there.
HOWEVER, it is more likely that the "200 years" in Lore 109 is the intended timeline for the *world*, and the character backstory in the Codex is written assuming she lived through it, which creates the paradox.
Let's look for clearer violations first.
Re-reading Codex 101 Backstory: "Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
Re-reading Codex 109: "The Felling... two centuries before the present day... Dunmore was reduced to rock..."
If Dunmore was destroyed 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, she wasn't raised there *before* the destruction unless the destruction was recent.
Perhaps the violation is in the Text's statement: "You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago." The text affirms the 200 year date. Then the narration questions her presence.
Actually, maybe the violation is simply that the text says "Twenty-eight years old... but she spoke... as though she'd stood in the middle of it." This implies she did *not* stand in the middle of it. But the Codex (101 Backstory) says she *did*. So the text contradicts the Codex's assertion of her presence in the event.
Let's try to interpret the Codex charitably. Maybe "The Felling" is an ongoing state? No, "swept across".
Okay, let's assume the standard interpretation: The Codex contains a contradiction, but the Text *also* contains a contradiction if it denies her presence.
Actually, looking at the provided solution format, I need to be precise.
Let's look at other details.
Text: "The Rusty Lantern sat crooked on its foundations..." Matches Codex 105.
Text: "Old Rivka wiped the same glass..." Matches Codex 102.
Text: "silver hair", "green eyes" (Torben). Matches Codex 100.
Text: "Stray". Matches Codex 100.
Text: "Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old, human". Matches Codex 101.
Text: "Auburn hair", "brown eyes". Matches Codex 101.
Text: "Kindling... dark iron blade... faintly warm... shimmer of fire". Matches Codex 107.
Text: "silver locket... Petal's Locket... never called it that aloud". Matches Codex 108.
Text: "Petal... fourteen". Matches Codex 103.
Text: "The Felling... two centuries ago". Matches Codex 109.
Text: "Jurren... told me to take Petal and run". Matches Codex 101/103/104.
Text: "no body to burn". Matches Codex 101/103/110.
Text: "Dunmore... port village on the salt cliffs... nothing left... rock and old foundations". Matches Codex 106.

Is there a violation in the "pulse" of the locket?
Codex 108: "On rare occasions the locket has been observed to emit a brief, faint pulse of light..."
Text: "The locket at her throat gave a single, faint pulse..."
This matches.

Is there a violation in the Kindling Rite description?
Codex 110: "burn the dead with what they loved — their tools, their letters, their personal effects".
Text: "burn the dead with what they loved. Their tools. Their letters."
Matches.

Let's reconsider the Age/War paradox.
If the Codex is the source of truth, and it says Sable is 28 AND she was present at The Felling, then The Felling must have been ~28 years ago, NOT 200.
Lore 109 says "Two centuries ago".
If Lore 109 is correct (200 years), then Sable (28) could not have been there. Thus, Codex 101 Backstory ("When The Felling reached the coast...") would be false or metaphorical? No, it says "Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did." This implies physical presence.
So the Codex has an internal conflict between Lore 109 (200 years) and Char 101 (Age 28 + Presence).
Which one does the Text violate?
The Text says: "the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago." (Aligns with Lore 109).
The Text then says: "she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
This narration implies she did *not* stand in the middle of it.
If the Codex (Char 101 Backstory) says she *did* stand in the middle of it, then the Text's implication is a violation of Char 101.
BUT, if the Codex Lore 109 is true (200 years), then Char 101 Backstory *must* be wrong (she couldn't be there).
Usually, in these puzzles, the "Lore" entry defining the date of a major historical event is the anchor. If the war was 200 years ago, a 28-year-old cannot have been there. The Codex Backstory for Sable might be phrased poorly or implies she is older? No, Age is explicitly 28.
Perhaps the "violation" is that the Text accepts the 200 year date (which makes her presence impossible) while the Codex Backstory claims she was there?
Or, more likely: The Codex Backstory is the "truth" of her life, meaning the War was recent, and Lore 109's "Two centuries" is the error in the Codex? No, I cannot fix the Codex. I must find where the Text contradicts the Codex.
If the Codex contains a contradiction, any path the Text takes might contradict *part* of the Codex.
However, often "Two centuries ago" in Lore entries is a setup for "ancient evil" or similar, while character backstories are personal. If Sable is 28, and the war was 200 years ago, she wasn't there. The text acknowledges this oddity ("as though she'd stood in the middle of it").
Maybe the violation is that the Text says "You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago."
If the Codex says the war was 200 years ago, and Sable was there, then Sable is 200+. But Codex says 28.
Let's assume the "Two centuries" in Lore 109 is the correct fact for the world history. Then Sable's backstory in the Codex ("When The Felling reached the coast...") must be interpreted differently? Maybe "The Felling" refers to the *aftermath* or a specific local event named after the war? No, Lore 109 says "Dunmore was reduced to rock... when The Felling reached the coast".
Okay, if the Codex is inconsistent, I should look for other specific mismatches.
What about "Petal's Locket"?
Text: "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud; the title exists only in the understanding..."
Matches.

What about the sword name?
Text: "Kindling, she called it."
Codex 107: "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling".
Matches.

Let's go back to the Age/War issue. It is the only glaring logical hole.
Hypothesis: The intended fact is that The Felling was 200 years ago. Sable is 28. She was NOT there. The Codex Backstory for Sable is written from a perspective that assumes she was there, which is an error in the *Codex* provided to me? Or am I missing something?
"Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast..."
If Dunmore was destroyed 200 years ago, she couldn't be raised there *now*.
Ah! "Dunmore was a port village... The village is gone now -- destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago." (Codex 106).
So Dunmore has been ruins for 200 years.
Sable is 28. She cannot have been "Raised in Dunmore" if Dunmore was destroyed 200 years ago.
Therefore, the Codex itself claims she was raised in a place that has been gone for 172 years before she was born.
This implies the Codex has a massive internal error.
However, the task is "identify every factual inconsistency between the text and the codex".
If the Text repeats the Codex's internal errors, is it a violation?
The Text says: "My sister Petal... She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." (Implies they were there).
The Text says: "the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago."
The Text narrator notes: "Twenty-eight years old... but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The narrator is flagging the impossibility.
If the Codex *asserts* she was there (Backstory), and the Text *questions* her being there (narrator's thought), is that a violation?
Or is the violation that the Text states the war was 200 years ago (matching Lore 109) while the events described in the text (Sable's memory) require it to be ~30 years ago?
Actually, if the Codex says X and Y which are contradictory, and the Text says X and Y, the Text is consistent with the Codex (even if the Codex is broken).
But if the Text says X and *not* Y, while Codex says X and Y, that's a violation.
Here, Codex says: War = 200 yrs ago. Sable = 28. Sable was there.
Text says: War = 200 yrs ago. Sable = 28. Narrator thinks it's weird she speaks as if she was there.
The Narrator's thought "as though she'd stood in the middle of it" implies she *didn't*.
Codex Backstory says she *did*.
So the Text (via narration) contradicts the Codex Backstory's assertion of her presence.
Violation: Entry 101, detail "backstory" (or the event presence).
Substring: "as though she'd stood in the middle of it".
Explanation: The text implies Sable was not present at The Felling due to her age, contradicting the codex backstory which states she fled Dunmore with her sister when The Felling arrived.

Are there any other violations?
"Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old, human, and tired of waiting." -> Codex 101: Age 28, Species Human. OK.
"Old Rivka... wiping the same glass". Codex 102: "polishing glasses". OK.
"Silver hair" (Torben). Codex 100: Silver. OK.
"Green eyes" (Torben). Codex 100: Green. OK.
"Auburn hair" (Sable). Codex 101: Auburn. OK.
"Brown eyes" (Sable). Codex 101: Brown. OK.
"Dark iron blade". Codex 107: Dark iron. OK.
"Silver locket". Codex 108: Silver. OK.
"Petal... fourteen". Codex 103: "She was fourteen years old". OK.
"Jurren... father". Codex 104: Father. OK.
"Kindling Rite... burn the dead with what they loved". Codex 110: "burned alongside the things they loved". OK.
"No body to burn". Codex 101/103: "no body to recover". OK.
"Dunmore... salt cliffs... rock and old foundations". Codex 106: "salt cliffs... rock and old foundations". OK.

Is there a detail about the locket's pulse?
Codex 108: "emit a brief, faint pulse of light".
Text: "gave a single, faint pulse — a glow so brief".
Matches.

Is there a detail about the sword's fire?
Codex 107: "shimmer so faint... thin as a hair".
Text: "barest shimmer of fire... thin as a hair".
Matches.

Is there a detail about the tavern floor?
Codex 105: "warped floorboards hold grooves deep enough to catch rainwater".
Text: "pooled in the grooves between planks".
Matches.

Is there a detail about Rivka's age/patience?
Codex 102: "patience of someone who has outlived most of her regulars".
Text: "patience of someone who had outlived most of her regulars".
Matches.

It seems the only potential violation is the logical paradox regarding Sable's presence at the war.
Let's refine that violation.
Codex 101 Backstory explicitly states: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did..."
This asserts her presence.
Text Paragraph 4: "Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The phrase "as though" implies she did *not* actually stand in the middle of it.
This contradicts the Codex 101 Backstory.
Also, the Text's dialogue has Sable saying "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." If the war was 200 years ago, and she is 28, this statement by Sable would be a lie or delusion, but the Codex presents her backstory as fact. The Narrator's internal monologue treats her account as suspicious ("as though").
If the Codex is the truth, Sable *was* there. The Text suggesting she wasn't (or that it's impossible) is the violation.

Wait, is it possible the "Two centuries" in Lore 109 is the mistake in my reading?
"The Felling was a catastrophic war that swept across the world approximately two centuries before the present day".
"Dunmore was a port village... The village is gone now -- destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
It's very specific.
And Sable is 28.
This is a "Broken Timeline" scenario often found in fantasy, but usually explained by magic/longevity. Sable is "Human" (Codex 101). Humans don't live 200 years.
So, strictly speaking, the Codex asserts:
1. War was 200 years ago.
2. Sable is 28 and Human.
3. Sable was present at the war.
These three cannot all be true in a standard setting.
The Text asserts 1 and 2, and questions 3.
The Codex asserts 1, 2, and 3 (as fact).
Therefore, the Text's questioning of 3 contradicts the Codex's assertion of 3.

Is there anything else?
"Old Rivka... watched the door". Codex: "watching the door".
"Fishermen hunched over their cups". Codex: "Fishermen... hunched over their cups".
"Listing toward the harbor like a drunk leaning on a post". Codex: "listing toward the harbor like a drunk leaning on a post". (Exact phrase match).
"Salt had eaten into the planks". Codex: "planks were eaten through by salt".
"Ceiling beams were black with smoke". Codex: "Smoke-blackened ceiling beams".
"Torben... silver hair... green eyes". Matches.
"Stray". Matches.
"Kindling... dark iron". Matches.
"Locket... silver". Matches.
"Petal... fourteen". Matches.
"Jurren... father". Matches.
"Kindling Rite". Matches.

One small detail:
Text: "The rain had stopped."
Codex 105: "grooves deep enough to catch rainwater tracked in from outside."
This implies it rains often, or recently. Doesn't contradict "rain had stopped" *now*.
Text: "shaking rain from his silver hair." (Earlier). So it was raining, now stopped. Consistent.

What about "Petal's Locket" capitalization?
Text: "Petal's Locket".
Codex 108 Name: "Petal's Locket".
Text says: "though she never called it that aloud."
Codex says: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud".
Consistent.

Is there a violation in the description of the fire on the sword?
Codex: "visible only to those who watch closely".
Text: "If you watched closely you could see it".
Consistent.

Is there a violation in the locket's glow?
Codex: "witnesses have questioned whether they imagined it".
Text: "a glow so brief he might have imagined it".
Consistent.

Okay, the timeline contradiction is the only candidate.
The text implies Sable was not at the war (due to age/date mismatch), while the Codex states she was.

One other possibility: "The Felling" in the text is described as "the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago."
Codex 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war... two centuries before the present day".
Codex 106: "Dunmore... destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
Codex 101 Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
If the text implies she wasn't there, it contradicts the backstory.

Let's formulate the violation.
Entry: 101 (Sable Dunmore)
Detail: backstory (specifically the event participation)
Paragraph: 4
Substring: "as though she'd stood in the middle of it"
Explanation: The text implies Sable was not present at The Felling due to the time elapsed, contradicting the codex backstory which states she fled Dunmore with her sister during the event.

Is there any other interpretation? Maybe "The Felling" in the backstory refers to a local incident *named* after the war? No, the codex links them directly.
Maybe the violation is that the text says "Twenty-eight years old" and "human" as if those facts make her presence impossible, whereas the Codex *also* says she is 28, Human, and was there. So the Text is pointing out an impossibility that the Codex accepts as fact? Yes, that makes the Text's implication a contradiction to the Codex's reality.

Wait, could the violation be that the text says "Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old" but the codex doesn't explicitly state her age in the *description*? No, Codex 101 has `<age>28</age>`.

Is there a violation with "Old Rivka"?
Text: "Old Rivka wiped the same glass she'd been wiping for the last quarter hour".
Codex: "polishing glasses".
No contradiction.

Is there a violation with "Torben Reikhart"?
Text: "Torben waited. He'd learned when to be quiet."
Codex: "quiet, watchful man... silence often reveals more than speech".
Consistent.

I will stick with the timeline/presence contradiction.

One final check:
Text: "The Felling reached Dunmore."
Codex 106: "The Felling reached the coast".
Codex 103: "When The Felling reached the coast".
Consistent.

Text: "Jurren -- our father -- he told me to take Petal and run."
Codex 104: "Jurren who told Sable to take her sister and run".
Consistent.

The only issue is the 200 years vs 28 years old vs Presence.
Since the prompt asks for inconsistencies between text and codex, and the Codex contains the statement "When The Felling reached the coast... Sable... run" (implying presence), and the Text implies absence ("as though she'd stood"), this is the violation.

<violation entry="101" detail="backstory" paragraph="4" substring="as though she'd stood in the middle of it">The text implies Sable was not present at The Felling due to her age and the time elapsed, contradicting the codex backstory which explicitly states she fled Dunmore with her sister when The Felling arrived.</violation>

Wait, is there a simpler violation?
"Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old, human..."
Codex 101: Age 28, Species Human.
Text: "Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone..."
The "but" implies being 28 and human makes it impossible to speak of it as an eyewitness.
Codex says she IS an eyewitness.
So the text contradicts the codex's assertion of her experience.

Are there any location errors?
"Rusty Lantern" - correct.
"Dunmore" - correct.

Item errors?
"Kindling" - correct.
"Locket" - correct.

I'm confident the timeline implication is the intended violation.

One nuance: The codex lore says "Two centuries ago". The codex character says she was there. This is an internal codex error. However, as an editor, if the Codex is the "Bible", I must treat all parts of it as true. If Part A says X and Part B says Y, and X+Y=Impossible, but the Text says "X and Y are impossible", does the Text violate the Bible?
Yes, because the Bible *says* Y happened (she ran). The Text says "It's like she claims Y happened, but she couldn't have." The Text denies the reality of Y. The Bible affirms Y. Thus Text contradicts Bible.

Another angle: Maybe the violation is that the text says "the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago" and the codex says "The Felling... two centuries before the present day". That matches.
The violation is purely the implication of non-presence.

Double check the paragraph count.
P1: The Rusty Lantern...
P2: The door opened...
P3: Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight...
P4: Torben waited... -> Wait.
Let's recount paragraphs in the provided text.
1. "The Rusty Lantern sat crooked..."
2. "The door opened and a man stepped through..."
3. "Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old..."
4. "Torben waited. He'd learned when to be quiet."
5. ""My sister Petal," Sable said..."
6. "Torben didn't ask the obvious question. Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it. The locket at her throat gave a single, faint pulse..."
Ah! The sentence in question is in Paragraph 6, not 4.
Let's re-verify the paragraph breaks.
Text:
[1] The Rusty Lantern sat crooked...
[2] The door opened and a man stepped through...
[3] Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old...
[4] Torben waited. He'd learned when to be quiet.
[5] "My sister Petal," Sable said...
[6] Torben didn't ask the obvious question. Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it. The locket at her throat gave a single, faint pulse...
[7] Sable's hand moved to the locket again...
[8] Torben said, "Then we'd better make it count."
[9] Sable picked up Kindling...

Yes, the violation is in Paragraph 6.

<violation entry="101" detail="backstory" paragraph="6" substring="as though she'd stood in the middle of it">The text implies Sable was not present at The Felling due to her age and the time elapsed, contradicting the codex backstory which explicitly states she fled Dunmore with her sister when The Felling arrived.</violation>

Is there any other?
"Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old, human, and tired of waiting." (Para 3).
Codex 101: Age 28, Species Human.
This is consistent.

"My sister Petal," Sable said. "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." (Para 5).
Codex 103: "She was fourteen years old when the war reached Dunmore".
Consistent.

"You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago." (Para 5).
Codex 109: "two centuries before the present day".
Consistent.

"Jurren — our father — he told me to take Petal and run." (Para 5).
Codex 104: "told Sable to take her sister and run".
Consistent.

"We couldn't give her a Kindling Rite." (Para 7).
Codex 101/103: "no Kindling Rite could be performed".
Consistent.

"Dunmore — port village on the salt cliffs — there's nothing left of that either. Just rock and old foundations." (Para 7).
Codex 106: "port village... salt cliffs... rock and old foundations".
Consistent.

Okay, just the one violation.

<violation entry="101" detail="backstory" paragraph="6" substring="as though she'd stood in the middle of it">The text implies Sable was not present at The Felling due to the time elapsed, contradicting the codex backstory which states she fled Dunmore with her sister when The Felling arrived.</violation>

Wait, looking at the codex again.
Character 101 Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
Lore 109: "The Felling... two centuries before the present day".
Character 101 Age: 28.
If the codex is taken literally, Sable is 200+ years old or the lore date is wrong. But the codex *says* 28.
If the text says "she spoke... as though she'd stood in the middle of it", the text is treating the "28 years old" + "200 years ago" as proof she wasn't there.
The Codex *also* has this contradiction internally.
But the task is to find Text vs Codex violations.
If the Codex says "She was there" (Backstory), and the Text says "It's like she claims she was there, but she wasn't (implied)", then Text contradicts Codex Backstory.
If the Codex says "War was 200 years ago" (Lore), and Text says "War was 200 years ago", they agree.
The conflict is on the *presence*.
Codex Backstory = Present.
Text Implication = Absent.
Violation confirmed.

One detail: "entry" should be the ID. "101".
"detail" should be the specific attribute. "backstory" seems appropriate as it's the section describing the event. Or maybe "presence"? The codex doesn't have a "presence" tag. It's in the `<backstory>` element. So "backstory" is the correct detail name.

Final check of the substring.
"as though she'd stood in the middle of it" is the key phrase.
The full sentence: "Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The substring provided in the example output should be the exact text. I will use the clause.

Is there any violation regarding "Old Rivka" knowing Stray?
Codex 102: "She knows Torben Reikhart by his wandering name — Stray — and is one of the few people who expected him to walk through her door".
Text: "Old Rivka raised her chin. 'Stray,' she called across the room. 'Didn't think you'd show.'"
Matches perfectly.

Is there a violation regarding the locket's name?
Text: "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud".
Matches.

I am confident in the single violation.

<violation entry="101" detail="backstory" paragraph="6" substring="as though she'd stood in the middle of it">The text implies Sable was not present at The Felling due to her age and the war's timing, contradicting the codex backstory which explicitly states she fled Dunmore with her sister when The Felling arrived.</violation>

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

50.00%

Correct "no violations" response

Response should contain <violations-none/> or equivalent phrasing

hasViolationTags	true
hasViolationsNoneTag	false
matchedPhrase	"text is consistent"

16.67%

No hallucinated violations

Response must not contain any <violation> tags

hasViolationTags	true
responseLength	28902
violationCount	5

33.3333%