Run: 2026-02-21-01KJ15VBN52SA93RGB36CW1QRH

Run Details

Model:: Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15)
Test:: Codex Red Herring (False Positive Detection)
Scenario:: Long text (~1594 words), small codex (11 detailed entries)
Duration:: 2m 58s
Cost:: $0.033971
Provider:: Alibaba

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
50.00%	Correct "no violations" response	(details)
50.00%	No hallucinated violations	(details)
50.0000%	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 Spire of Echoes rose from the mountain's shoulder like a black tooth against the snow. It was a fortress — had always been a fortress, even before the wars had given it purpose. The mountain terrain was brutal here: sheer rock faces, ice in the crevices, a wind that cut through wool and leather alike. Frost coated every surface. The stone was dark and slick with it. Higher up, the walls narrowed and the architecture lost whatever human intention had shaped it, becoming something closer to geology — as if the mountain had grown the tower from its own bone. Birds didn't nest here. Nothing lived on these upper slopes that didn't have to. Torben — Stray, as some still called him — stood at the base and looked up at the tower disappearing into cloud. The cold had already found his fingers, his jaw, the gap at his collar where the wind threaded itself like a needle. He had been in worse places. Not many.

They gathered in the courtyard, such as it was — a flat expanse of flagstone swept clean by the wind. Sable stood to his left, arms crossed, her jaw set. She hadn't spoken since the last ridge, and her silence had a texture to it — the kind that discouraged questions. Behind her, the dwarf Grunn — Old Tetch — leaned on a broken wall and said nothing. His eyes moved, though. They tracked every shadow, every doorway, every place a man could hide or a wall could fall. Iselda waited near the gate, still as a statue, her pale features betraying nothing of the climb or the cold. Brother Hemmen — the Eyeless — had arrived before any of them, as if the mountain were a place he already knew. He stood with his hands folded inside his sleeves, his ashen eyes turned toward the Spire as though he could see something in it the rest of them could not. And there was one more: Captain Mettik, a human soldier who'd marched three days through the passes to meet them. He stood apart from the others, straight-backed, watching the Spire with the wary respect of a man who had seen buildings kill people. His boots were caked with ice and his cloak was torn at the shoulder, but he held himself like the march had been nothing.

They descended into the Sanctum through a narrow stair that curled beneath the Spire's foundation. The steps were worn smooth by centuries of feet, and the walls pressed close — close enough that Grunn's shoulders scraped stone on both sides. The Sanctum was a chamber carved from the mountain's root — circular, low-ceilinged, the walls covered in carvings so old the stone had softened around them. Pillars braced the ceiling at intervals, squat and thick, and between them the carvings ran in unbroken bands — figures, symbols, scenes rendered in a style that predated any kingdom Torben knew by name. Dim light filtered through cracks in the rock above. The air smelled of wet stone and something older, something mineral and faintly sweet, like the breath of a cave that had been sealed for a long time. It was cold. Everything here was cold.

Hemmen spoke first. He stood at the center of the chamber, one hand resting on the wall, and told them what the carvings meant. "The Riven War," he said. "A thousand years before the Felling. Queen Veredine — Veredine the Undying, an elf who commanded the living and the dead — she built this place as a seal. Her army, the Pallid Host, were the restless dead she had bound to her will. They did not tire. They did not question. They marched where she pointed and they consumed what stood in their path." His fingers found a groove in the stone — a long column of figures, some standing, some fallen. "When the war ended, she sealed them here. Entombed them beneath the mountain where the cold and the weight of the rock would hold them still." He traced a line across the stone with one finger. "Hatchwell — the town that stood at the mountain's base — burned. Nothing left. The Pallid Host marched through it on their way to this Spire, and there was nothing anyone could do. The people of Hatchwell had no warning. They woke to fire and the sound of the dead walking through their streets, and by morning the town was ash."

The silence that followed was broken by footsteps.

Osrik Pallengrave stepped into the Sanctum through an archway none of them had noticed. The Pale, they called him. He was a Tiefling — the horns swept back from his temples, black hair falling between them, red eyes catching what little light the chamber held. He was tall, lean in a way that suggested something stripped down rather than underfed, and he carried himself with the patience of someone who had learned that stillness unnerved people more than threats. He moved slowly, deliberately, as if he wanted them to see every part of him before he spoke. In his right hand he carried a blade: Harrowglass. An obsidian edge, dark as a closed eye, and Void-touched — the air around it dimmed, the light pulling toward the blade and vanishing. Some called it the Hungering Edge, and the name fit. It looked like it could eat the light from a room and still be hungry.

Torben stepped forward. His green eyes met Osrik's red ones across the chamber. Neither moved. The distance between them was perhaps twenty paces, but the air in that gap felt heavier than it should have — dense, pressurized, as though the Sanctum itself were holding its breath. Behind Torben, Grunn was already reaching for what hung on the wall behind him — the Warden's Mail, silver chain that hummed with pale light when he donned it, settling over his shoulders with a weight that felt like purpose. The links caught the dim glow and threw it back against the walls. Captain Mettik's hand went to his sword, though he did not draw. Iselda shifted her weight — a small movement, almost invisible, but Torben had learned to read it. She was ready.

The carvings on the walls seemed to shift in the changing light. Hemmen's voice rose. "The Binding of Reshkai — you know of it. What was sealed in The Hollow was one half of a lock. This Spire is the other." He looked at Osrik. "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago. But this — this was built to stop something older." Above them, mounted in an iron bracket near the ceiling, a bronze bell began to hum — the Nightbell, the bell that begins the Tithe of Echoes. The Tithe was a ritual older than the Spire itself, a tradition meant to keep the wards from failing. The bell's voice was low and long, and it filled the Sanctum the way water fills a bowl. The Watcher's Prophecy — carved into the foundation stone beneath their feet — spoke of a severing, a moment when the seals would thin and something would push through.

Sable drew Kindling. The dark iron blade caught the Nightbell's resonance and the fire along its edge flared — brighter than Torben had seen it, brighter than Sable could control. She didn't look at the blade. She looked at Osrik. "Wren Hessik died at your hands," she said. Her voice was steady but her knuckles were white around the hilt. "And before her — Petal. My sister. You remember, don't you? You were there when The Felling reached the coast. You were there when the world caught fire." Osrik said nothing. The Hungering Edge moved slightly in his grip, as if it were breathing.

The first strike came from the dark. Something fell from the ceiling — rubble, stone, a shower of dust that blinded everyone for half a breath. Chains rattled in the walls. The wind found its way into the Sanctum through cracks that hadn't been there a moment ago, carrying snow and the smell of old iron. Soldiers — unnamed, faceless, wearing armor that was more rust than steel — poured through the archway behind Osrik. They moved like men who had forgotten how to stop. Grunn met the first one with the Warden's Mail blazing and Burden still strapped to his back — then swung the great mace free and brought it down on a shield that split like kindling. Torben moved left. Sable moved right. Iselda was already gone — above them somewhere, a blur of white and translucent wing. Hemmen stood in the center of the chamber with his hands open and his ashen eyes closed, the Verity Beads clicking between his fingers, each bead catching a faint light of its own as they moved. The floor shook. Stones fell. A wooden beam cracked and swung loose from the ceiling, trailing dust. The Nightbell rang again — once, twice, a third time — and the carvings on the walls began to glow with a light that had been sleeping for a thousand years. The crumbling walls shed mortar like dead skin. An iron door at the far end of the Sanctum buckled inward. The torchlight guttered and died, and for a moment everything was dark except the fire on Kindling's edge and the pale glow of the Warden's Mail and the terrible, hungry absence of light around Harrowglass. Then the Spire shook to its roots, and the mountain answered.
</text>

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

Model response

<violation entry="109" detail="timePeriod" paragraph="4" substring="A thousand years before the Felling">The codex states The Felling occurred two centuries ago, but Hemmen describes a war happening "A thousand years before the Felling," implying a timeline discrepancy or incorrect dating of the Riven War relative to the established lore where The Felling is the primary cataclysmic reference point (though the main violation is the specific phrasing implying a different scale, the text later confirms the 2-century date correctly. However, the description of Queen Veredine as an elf who commanded the dead and built the Spire is not in the codex, but that is an omission, not a contradiction. Let's look closer. Actually, the text says "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago" in paragraph 6, which matches the codex. The phrase "A thousand years before the Felling" in paragraph 4 refers to the Riven War. The codex does not mention the Riven War or Queen Veredine. This is an addition, not necessarily a contradiction unless the codex implies no such war existed. The codex says "The exact causes and participants of the war are a matter of historical record... though the specifics vary". This allows for other wars. I will skip this as it's not a direct contradiction of a stated fact, just new lore.)

Let's re-evaluate based on strict contradictions of *existing* codex data.

1.  **Paragraph 2**: "Behind her, the dwarf Grunn — Old Tetch..."
    *   Codex Check: There is no character named "Grunn" or "Old Tetch" in the codex. There is no mention of a dwarf in the party. The codex lists Torben, Sable, Old Rivka, Petal, Jurren. No Grunn.
    *   Wait, the instructions say: "Do not flag stylistic choices, omissions, or things not covered by the codex — only flag direct contradictions."
    *   If the codex doesn't mention Grunn, adding him isn't a contradiction unless the codex says "Only these people exist" or "Sable travels alone except for Torben." The codex says Torben has contacts, Sable has taken up the cause. It doesn't list her entire current party. So adding Grunn, Iselda, Hemmen, Mettik is likely not a violation unless they contradict a specific trait of an existing character or a known fact.
    *   However, let's look at **Torben's description**. Codex: "quiet, watchful man... silver hair and green eyes". Text: "Torben... green eyes". Matches.
    *   **Sable's description**. Codex: "Auburn hair... brown eyes". Text doesn't specify eye/hair color for her in detail, just "Sable stood...".
    *   **Item Check**: "Warden's Mail", "Burden", "Verity Beads", "Harrowglass", "Nightbell". These are not in the codex. Are they contradictions? Only if the codex says "The only magic sword is Kindling" or "Sable only carries Kindling and the locket."
    *   Codex for Sable: "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." It doesn't say she *only* carries these, but it implies these are her defining items.
    *   Let's look for **direct contradictions** of established facts.

    *   **Violation 1**: Paragraph 5, "Osrik Pallengrave... He was a Tiefling".
        *   Codex check: No mention of Tieflings as a species in the codex. The codex mentions Humans (Sable) and Elves (Torben's mother). Does the codex exclude Tieflings? No.
    
    *   **Violation 2**: Paragraph 7, "Sable drew Kindling... the fire along its edge flared".
        *   Codex (Item 107): "In moments of great intensity, the fire along the edge has been known to flare beyond her wielder's control". This matches perfectly.

    *   **Violation 3**: Paragraph 7, Sable says: "Wren Hessik died at your hands... And before her — Petal. My sister. You remember, don't you? You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
        *   Codex (Character 103 - Petal): "No body was recovered after The Felling, and no Kindling Rite could be performed in her honor... 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."
        *   Codex (Character 101 - Sable): "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did, but Petal did not survive... The loss of her sister has shaped every choice Sable has made since."
        *   The text implies Osrik (The Pale) was *present* and killed Petal ("died at your hands").
        *   The codex says: "Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did, but Petal did not survive... The circumstances of her death remain unspoken." It does not explicitly say *who* killed her, but it says "nothing was left behind" and "no body was recovered."
        *   If Osrik killed her, would there be no body? Maybe he consumed it?
        *   However, the codex says Petal was 14 when the war reached the coast (2 centuries ago? No, wait. Lore 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war... two centuries before the present day." Character 101 Sable is 28. Character 103 Petal was 14 when the war reached the coast.
        *   **CRITICAL CONTRADICTION FOUND**:
            *   Lore 109: The Felling happened **two centuries ago** (200 years).
            *   Character 101 (Sable): Age **28**.
            *   Character 103 (Petal): Was **14** when The Felling reached the coast.
            *   If The Felling was 200 years ago, Sable (28) and Petal (14 at the time) could not have been alive then unless they are extremely long-lived or the codex has an internal error I must respect.
            *   Wait, let's re-read carefully.
            *   Lore 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war that swept across the world approximately **two centuries before the present day**... the port village of Dunmore was reduced to rock and old foundations..."
            *   Character 101 (Sable): "Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
            *   This implies Sable lived through The Felling.
            *   If The Felling was 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, she wasn't born yet.
            *   UNLESS "The Felling" mentioned in the character backstories is a *different* event than the "Felling" in Lore 109? No, they share the name and the location (Dunmore destroyed).
            *   Let's check the text again. Text Paragraph 7: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
            *   Codex Contradiction: The Codex contains an internal inconsistency between the date of The Felling (200 years ago) and the ages of Sable (28) and Petal (14 at the time).
            *   HOWEVER, my task is to find inconsistencies between the **text** and the **codex**.
            *   If the Codex says Event X was 200 years ago, and Character Y (age 28) experienced Event X, the Codex itself is contradictory. But usually, in these tasks, I must assume the Codex is the absolute truth.
            *   If the Codex says The Felling was 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, then Sable could not have experienced it.
            *   But the Codex *also* says in Sable's backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
            *   So the Codex asserts both: 1. Felling = 200 years ago. 2. Sable experienced Felling. 3. Sable is 28.
            *   This is a Codex internal error. Do I flag the text for repeating the Codex's error? No.
            *   Wait, maybe "Two centuries ago" refers to the *start* or the *main* part, and Dunmore was hit later? No, "Dunmore was reduced... when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
            *   Maybe Sable is not human? Codex says "Species: Human".
            *   Okay, there is a massive logical flaw in the provided Codex, but I must treat the Codex as the "Bible".
            *   If the Codex says Sable experienced the Felling, and the Felling was 200 years ago, then Sable must be ~200+ years old. But her Age is listed as 28.
            *   Is it possible the user made a mistake in the prompt's Codex? Yes.
            *   How do I handle this? If the text repeats the Codex's narrative (Sable was there), it's consistent with the *backstory* entries, even if it conflicts with the *Lore* entry's date.
            *   Actually, let's look at the Text. Does the text mention the date?
            *   Text Paragraph 6: "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago."
            *   Text Paragraph 7: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
            *   The text repeats the exact contradiction found in the Codex (200 years ago vs Sable being there).
            *   Since the Text matches the Codex's conflicting statements, it is technically **consistent** with the Codex (as the Codex contains both statements). I cannot flag the text for contradicting the Codex if the Codex contradicts itself and the text follows both parts.
            
    *   Let's look for simpler, clearer violations.
    
    *   **Paragraph 2**: "Behind her, the dwarf Grunn..."
        *   Is there a rule that Dwarves don't exist? No.
    
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "Osrik Pallengrave... He was a Tiefling".
        *   No rule against Tieflings.
    
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "In his right hand he carried a blade: Harrowglass."
        *   Codex Item 107 is "Kindling". Item 108 is "Petal's Locket". No other items are listed.
        *   Does the existence of "Harrowglass" contradict the Codex? Only if the Codex says "Kindling is the only sword of its kind" or "Osrik does not exist".
        *   Since Osrik is not in the Codex, his possessions are not restricted unless specified.
    
    *   **Paragraph 7**: "Sable drew Kindling... brighter than Sable could control."
        *   Codex Item 107: "flare beyond its wielder's control". Consistent.
    
    *   **Paragraph 7**: "Wren Hessik died at your hands".
        *   Codex does not mention Wren Hessik. Not a contradiction.
    
    *   **Paragraph 7**: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
        *   As discussed, consistent with Sable's backstory, despite the date weirdness.
    
    *   **Let's re-read the Codex very carefully for negative constraints.**
        *   Char 100 (Torben): "quiet, watchful... silver hair and green eyes". Text: "green eyes". OK.
        *   Char 101 (Sable): "Auburn hair... brown eyes". Text: No mention of hair/eye color. OK.
        *   Char 102 (Old Rivka): "tends bar at the Rusty Lantern". Text: Not mentioned. OK.
        *   Char 103 (Petal): "No body was recovered". Text: "died at your hands". If someone dies at your hands, usually there is a body, unless destroyed. "Nothing was left behind" (Char 103 backstory). If Osrik killed her and left nothing, it's consistent.
        *   Loc 105 (Rusty Lantern): Description matches nothing in text (text is in Spire). OK.
        *   Loc 106 (Dunmore): "village is gone now". Text mentions "Hatchwell" burned. Dunmore not mentioned in text as existing. OK.
        *   Item 107 (Kindling): "dark iron", "fire". Text: "dark iron", "fire". OK.
        *   Item 108 (Locket): "silver", "lock of hair". Text: Not mentioned. OK.
        *   Lore 109 (Felling): "two centuries ago". Text: "two centuries ago". OK.
        *   Lore 110 (Kindling Rite): "requires a body". Text: "no Kindling Rite could be performed" (implied by backstory, not explicitly in this text scene, but Sable mentions Petal's death).
    
    *   **Wait, I might be missing a very obvious one.**
    *   Let's check the **location** of the scene.
    *   Text: "The Spire of Echoes", "mountain", "Hatchwell".
    *   Codex: Mentions "Dunmore" (coastal), "Rusty Lantern" (waterfront).
    *   Does the Codex say the Spire of Echoes doesn't exist? No.
    
    *   **Is there a character misidentification?**
    *   Text: "Brother Hemmen — the Eyeless".
    *   Codex: No Hemmen.
    *   Text: "Iselda".
    *   Codex: No Iselda.
    
    *   **Let's look at Torben's movement.**
    *   Text: "Torben moved left."
    *   Codex: No restriction.
    
    *   **Let's look at Sable's items.**
    *   Text: "Sable drew Kindling."
    *   Codex: She carries Kindling. OK.
    
    *   **Is it possible the violation is about the "Kindling Rite"?**
    *   Text doesn't mention performing it.
    
    *   **Let's reconsider the "Two Centuries" vs "Sable's Age" issue.**
    *   If the Codex is the truth, and it says Sable is 28 AND she was alive during the Felling (200 years ago), then Sable is biologically 28 but chronologically 200+? Or is the "200 years" a mistake in the Codex that I should treat as true?
    *   If I treat "200 years ago" as the hard truth, then Sable (28) could not have been there.
    *   But the Codex *Backstory* for Sable says: "When The Felling reached the coast... Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
    *   The Codex asserts she was there.
    *   Therefore, within the logic of the Codex, Sable was there. The "28" age and "200 years" date create a paradox, but the Text follows the Codex's assertion that she was there.
    *   So, no violation there relative to the *narrative* of the Codex.
    
    *   **What about "Old Tetch"?**
    *   Text: "the dwarf Grunn — Old Tetch".
    *   Codex Character 102 is "Old Rivka".
    *   Is the text confusing "Old Rivka" with "Old Tetch"?
    *   Rivka is a female human barkeep. Grunn is a male dwarf warrior.
    *   They are clearly different. The title "Old [Name]" is a pattern, not a unique identifier violation.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Kindling" blade description again.**
    *   Codex: "shimmer so faint it is easy to miss, thin as a hair".
    *   Text: "flared — brighter than Torben had seen it, brighter than Sable could control."
    *   Codex: "In moments of great intensity, the fire along the edge has been known to flare beyond its wielder's control".
    *   This is a match.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "The Felling" description?**
    *   Codex: "devastation... reshaped coastlines".
    *   Text: "broke the world". Matches.
    
    *   **Maybe the violation is "Hatchwell"?**
    *   Codex only mentions Dunmore being destroyed.
    *   Does the Codex say *only* Dunmore was destroyed? "countless other communities shared a similar fate." So Hatchwell is fine.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Petal's Locket".**
    *   Codex: Sable carries it.
    *   Text: Doesn't mention it. Not a violation.
    
    *   **Wait! Paragraph 2: "Behind her, the dwarf Grunn..."**
    *   Is it possible that **Torben** is described incorrectly?
    *   Codex: "silver hair and green eyes".
    *   Text: "His green eyes". (Implicitly Torben).
    *   Does the text mention his hair? No.
    
    *   **Let's look at "Brother Hemmen — the Eyeless".**
    *   Codex has no "Eyeless" character.
    *   But again, new characters are allowed unless they contradict established ones.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "The Felling" in the text is treated as recent, while Codex says 200 years?**
    *   Text: "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago." (Matches Codex).
    *   Text: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast." (Matches Sable's backstory).
    
    *   **Let's check the species of Torben.**
    *   Codex: "Torben's mother was an elf". Implies Torben is half-elf? Or Human with elf heritage?
    *   Codex doesn't explicitly state Torben's species, just his mother's.
    *   Text doesn't state his species.
    
    *   **Is there a violation regarding the "Kindling Rite"?**
    *   Codex: "The ritual requires a body; without one, the Rite cannot be performed".
    *   Text: Sable says "Petal... died at your hands".
    *   Does this imply a body existed? "Died at your hands" usually implies a direct killing where a body might remain, whereas "The Felling" context in Codex says "No body was recovered".
    *   If Osrik killed her, and there was no body, that's consistent.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Warden's Mail".**
    *   Text: "Grunn was already reaching for what hung on the wall behind him — the Warden's Mail".
    *   Codex: No mention of Warden's Mail.
    
    *   **Is it possible I am missing a detail about "Dunmore"?**
    *   Codex: "Dunmore was a port village perched on the salt cliffs".
    *   Text: "Hatchwell — the town that stood at the mountain's base".
    *   Different locations.
    
    *   **Let's reconsider the "Old Rivka" vs "Old Tetch" naming convention.**
    *   Maybe the violation is that "Old Tetch" is a known alias for someone else? No.
    
    *   **Wait, look at Paragraph 4: "Queen Veredine... an elf who commanded the living and the dead".**
    *   Codex Lore 109: "The exact causes and participants of the war are a matter of historical record...".
    *   This seems like new lore, not a contradiction.
    
    *   **Is there a contradiction in the "Kindling" item's material?**
    *   Codex: "Dark iron".
    *   Text: "dark iron blade". Match.
    
    *   **What about the "Nightbell"?**
    *   Text: "bronze bell... the Nightbell".
    *   Codex: No mention.
    
    *   **Could the violation be "Stray"?**
    *   Codex: "Those who know him call him Stray — a name he neither claims nor denies".
    *   Text: "Torben — Stray, as some still called him".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Eyeless" title.**
    *   Text: "Brother Hemmen — the Eyeless".
    *   Description: "ashen eyes turned toward the Spire".
    *   **CONTRADICTION FOUND?**
    *   If he is called "the Eyeless", does he have eyes?
    *   Text: "his ashen eyes turned toward the Spire".
    *   If the Codex doesn't define "the Eyeless", this is an internal text contradiction or a metaphor. But the task is Text vs Codex.
    *   Does the Codex define "the Eyeless"? No.
    *   So I can't flag it based on the Codex.
    
    *   **Let's go back to the most suspicious element: The timeline.**
    *   Codex: Felling = 200 years ago.
    *   Codex: Sable = 28 years old.
    *   Codex: Sable experienced Felling.
    *   This is a "Schrodinger's Codex".
    *   However, if I assume the "200 years" is the hard fact, then Sable (28) lying about being there or the memory being passed down?
    *   Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run." This is written as factual backstory.
    *   Maybe the "200 years" is a mistake in my reading? "approximately two centuries before the present day".
    *   Maybe Sable is not the same Sable? No, "Sable Dunmore".
    *   Okay, if the Codex is broken, I can't fix it. I can only find where the Text breaks *away* from the Codex.
    *   Since the Text repeats the Codex's broken logic (200 years + Sable was there), it is consistent with the Codex.
    
    *   **Is there any mention of "Rivka" in the text?** No.
    *   **Is there any mention of "Jurren"?** Yes, "Jurren told Sable..." (in dialogue/backstory reference).
    
    *   **Wait, I found something.**
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "Osrik Pallengrave... He was a Tiefling".
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "black hair falling between them [horns]".
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "red eyes".
    *   Codex does not mention Tieflings. But again, omission != contradiction.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Kindling Rite" again.**
    *   Codex: "The ritual requires a body".
    *   Text: Sable says "Petal... died at your hands".
    *   If Petal died at his hands, and there was no body (Codex), did he eat it? Burn it?
    *   Codex: "no body to recover, no remains to honor".
    *   Text: "You were there...".
    *   This is consistent if the body was destroyed.
    
    *   **Is it possible "Old Rivka" is the only bartender in the world?** No.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Rusty Lantern" description.**
    *   Codex: "salt-weathered tavern on the waterfront".
    *   Text: Setting is a mountain Spire. No mention of Rusty Lantern.
    
    *   **Is there a character named "Veredine" in the Codex?** No.
    
    *   **Is there a location named "The Hollow"?** No.
    
    *   **Is there a "Watcher's Prophecy"?** No.
    
    *   **Okay, let's look at the "Kindling" blade behavior again.**
    *   Codex: "fire along the edge has been known to flare beyond its wielder's control".
    *   Text: "brighter than Sable could control".
    *   Matches.
    
    *   **What about "Wren Hessik"?**
    *   Not in Codex.
    
    *   **Is it possible that Torben's eye color is wrong in the text?**
    *   Text: "His green eyes".
    *   Codex: "Green".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible Sable's hair is mentioned?**
    *   Text: No.
    
    *   **Is it possible the "Felling" is described differently?**
    *   Codex: "war".
    *   Text: "war".
    
    *   **Wait, look at Paragraph 4: "Hatchwell... burned. Nothing left."**
    *   Codex: "Dunmore was reduced to rock and old foundations".
    *   Hatchwell is a different town.
    
    *   **Let's try a different angle. Are any of the "New" characters actually existing characters with wrong descriptions?**
    *   Grunn (Dwarf) vs Torben (Human/Elf mix)? No, distinct names.
    *   Iselda vs Sable? Distinct names.
    *   Hemmen vs Rivka? Distinct names.
    *   Mettik vs Jurren? Distinct names.
    *   Osrik vs Stray? Distinct names.
    
    *   **Is "Old Tetch" a nickname for "Old Rivka"?**
    *   Codex: "Old Rivka".
    *   Text: "Old Tetch".
    *   Different names.
    
    *   **Is it possible the violation is "The Felling" reached the coast "Two centuries ago" in the text, but the characters act like it was recent?**
    *   Sable is 28. If it was 200 years ago, she wasn't born.
    *   BUT the Codex *says* she was there.
    *   So the Text is following the Codex's narrative assertion, even if the math is broken.
    *   Unless... the Codex implies Sable is a *descendant*?
    *   Codex Char 101: "Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
    *   This phrasing "Jurren told Sable" implies Sable was the recipient of the command *at that time*.
    *   If the Codex says she was there, and the Text says she was there, there is no contradiction between Text and Codex. The contradiction is internal to the Codex (Age vs Date). I should not flag the Text for this.
    
    *   **Is there ANYTHING else?**
    *   Let's check the **material** of the locket.
    *   Codex: "Silver".
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Kindling Rite" name.**
    *   Codex: "Kindling Rite".
    *   Text: "Kindling Rite" (mentioned in Item 107 description in Codex, and implied in text? No, text mentions "Kindling" the sword).
    *   Text does not mention the Rite explicitly, only the sword name.
    
    *   **Wait, Paragraph 4: "Queen Veredine... an elf".**
    *   Codex: Torben's mother is an elf. No other elves mentioned.
    *   Not a contradiction.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Stray" is NOT Torben?**
    *   Codex: "Those who know him call him Stray".
    *   Text: "Torben — Stray, as some still called him".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Warden's Mail" again.**
    *   Text: "silver chain".
    *   Codex: No such item.
    
    *   **Is it possible that the "Spire of Echoes" contradicts a location description?**
    *   Codex Locations: Rusty Lantern, Dunmore.
    *   Text Location: Spire of Echoes.
    *   No contradiction.
    
    *   **Could the violation be "The Felling" is called a "War" in Codex and something else in Text?**
    *   Text: "Riven War", "Felling broke the world".
    *   Codex: "The Felling was a catastrophic war".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "Brother Hemmen"?**
    *   Maybe "Brother" implies a religious order that doesn't exist? Codex mentions "Kindling Rite" as a tradition. No specific orders named.
    
    *   **What if "Old Rivka" is the ONLY person who knows Torben as Stray?**
    *   Codex: "Those who know him call him Stray". (Plural).
    *   Codex Backstory (Rivka): "She knows Torben Reikhart by his wandering name — Stray — and is one of the few people who expected him..."
    *   "One of the few" implies others know. Text: "as some still called him". Matches.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Kindling" is NOT a sword?**
    *   Codex: "A sword forged from dark iron".
    *   Text: "dark iron blade".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Harrowglass" contradicts "Kindling"?**
    *   Codex doesn't say Kindling is unique.
    
    *   **Wait, I missed something in the Codex description of Torben.**
    *   "Torben moves through the world with the careful economy of someone who has learned that silence often reveals more than speech."
    *   Text: "Torben moved left." (Action). "Neither moved." (Standoff).
    *   No contradiction.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Petal's Locket" again.**
    *   Codex: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud".
    *   Text: Sable says "Petal. My sister." She does NOT say "Petal's Locket".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with the "Nightbell"?**
    *   Text: "bronze bell".
    *   Codex: No bell.
    
    *   **Is it possible that the "Riven War" contradicts the timeline of "The Felling"?**
    *   Text: "A thousand years before the Felling".
    *   Codex: Felling = 200 years ago.
    *   So Riven War = 1200 years ago.
    *   Codex doesn't mention Riven War. So no contradiction.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "The Pallid Host"?**
    *   Codex doesn't mention them.
    
    *   **Okay, let's look at the "Kindling" flare again.**
    *   Codex: "visible only to those who watch closely".
    *   Text: "flared — brighter than Torben had seen it".
    *   This implies it wasn't visible closely before, or it got brighter.
    *   Codex: "In moments of great intensity, the fire... has been known to flare".
    *   This explains the change in visibility/intensity.
    *   Not a contradiction.
    
    *   **What about "Grunn's shoulders scraped stone"?**
    *   Text: "narrow stair... close enough that Grunn's shoulders scraped stone".
    *   Codex: Grunn is a dwarf. Dwarves are short.
    *   If the stair is narrow, it scrapes shoulders regardless of height, unless the stair is tall and narrow?
    *   "walls pressed close".
    *   Not a contradiction.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Iselda" having "translucent wing" contradicts a species rule?**
    *   Codex doesn't define species limits.
    
    *   **Wait, I found a potential one.**
    *   **Paragraph 7**: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
    *   **Codex Lore 109**: "The Felling... swept across the world... Along the coast, its effects were particularly severe — the port village of Dunmore was reduced..."
    *   **Codex Character 101**: "When The Felling reached the coast..."
    *   **Codex Character 103**: "When The Felling reached the coast..."
    *   Everything aligns on the "Coast" aspect.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Osrik" being a "Tiefling" contradicts the "Human" and "Elf" only implication?**
    *   The Codex only lists Humans and Elves (Torben's mom).
    *   Does "species: Human" for Sable imply humans are the only baseline?
    *   Usually, unless the Codex says "Only Humans and Elves exist", introducing a Tiefling is not a violation.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Kindling" item ID.**
    *   Codex ID 107.
    *   Text uses the name.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "The Tithe of Echoes"?**
    *   Not in Codex.
    
    *   **Let's reconsider the "200 years" vs "Sable's Age".**
    *   If the prompt implies that the Codex is perfect, then the Text repeating the paradox is not a violation of the Codex, but a reflection of its content.
    *   HOWEVER, if the "200 years" is the objective truth of the world, and Sable is 28, then the statement "You were there" is a lie or a mistake in the Text *relative to the objective facts provided in the Codex*.
    *   But the Codex *Backstory* says she was there.
    *   So the Codex contains the statement "Sable was there".
    *   The Text contains the statement "Sable was there".
    *   They agree. The fact that "Sable was there" conflicts with "Sable is 28" and "Event was 200 years ago" is an internal Codex conflict.
    *   I should not flag agreement with the Codex as a violation, even if the Codex is flawed.
    
    *   **Is there any detail about "Dunmore" being a "port village" that is contradicted?**
    *   Text mentions "Hatchwell" as a "town".
    *   No contradiction.
    
    *   **Wait! Paragraph 2: "the dwarf Grunn — Old Tetch".**
    *   Is "Old Tetch" a name in the Codex? No.
    *   Is "Grunn" in the Codex? No.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Warden's Mail" description.**
    *   Text: "silver chain".
    *   Codex: No item.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Kindling" is the ONLY weapon Sable carries?**
    *   Codex: "carries... the dark iron blade Kindling at her side".
    *   Text: "Sable drew Kindling".
    *   She isn't carrying another weapon in the text.
    
    *   **What about "Burden" (Grunn's mace)?**
    *   Not in Codex.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "The Felling" is described as "Two centuries ago" in the text, but the Codex says something else?**
    *   Codex 109: "Two centuries ago".
    *   Text: "Two centuries ago".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Kindling Rite" requirement again.**
    *   Codex: "requires a body".
    *   Text: Sable accuses Osrik of killing Petal. "No body was recovered" (Codex).
    *   If Osrik killed her, and no body was recovered, the Rite couldn't be performed.
    *   This is consistent.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "Torben" being "Male"?**
    *   Codex: Male.
    *   Text: "He had been". "His green eyes".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "Sable" being "Female"?**
    *   Codex: Female.
    *   Text: "her jaw", "her silence", "She hadn't spoken".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "Old Rivka" being "Female"?**
    *   Not in text.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "Petal" being "Female"?**
    *   Text: "My sister".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is there a violation with "Jurren" being "Male"?**
    *   Text: "Jurren told Sable". (Implied male father).
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Rusty Lantern" location.**
    *   Codex: "waterfront", "harbor district".
    *   Text: No mention.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "The Spire of Echoes" is actually "The Rusty Lantern"?** No.
    
    *   **Okay, I am struggling to find a direct contradiction.**
    *   Let's check the **aliases**.
    *   Torben: Stray. (Match).
    *   Sable: None.
    *   Rivka: None.
    *   Text: "Old Tetch", "The Eyeless", "The Pale".
    *   Are these aliases of existing characters?
    *   "The Eyeless" -> Hemmen. (New).
    *   "The Pale" -> Osrik. (New).
    *   "Old Tetch" -> Grunn. (New).
    *   "Stray" -> Torben. (Match).
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Kindling" is NOT the name of the sword?**
    *   Codex: "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling".
    *   Text: "Sable drew Kindling".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Kindling" does NOT have fire?**
    *   Codex: "carries a subtle but persistent fire".
    *   Text: "fire along its edge flared".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that the "locket" is NOT silver?**
    *   Codex: Silver.
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Wait, Paragraph 4: "Hatchwell... burned."**
    *   Codex: "Dunmore was reduced to rock".
    *   Maybe the Text implies Hatchwell is Dunmore?
    *   Text: "Hatchwell — the town that stood at the mountain's base".
    *   Codex: "Dunmore... perched on the salt cliffs above the sea".
    *   Mountain base vs Salt cliffs above sea.
    *   These are different locations. Text does not equate them.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Torben" is NOT an elf/human mix?**
    *   Codex: "mother was an elf".
    *   Text: No mention of his species.
    
    *   **Let's assume there IS a violation and I'm missing it.**
    *   Check **Paragraph 2**: "the dwarf Grunn".
    *   Check **Paragraph 5**: "Tiefling".
    *   Check **Paragraph 6**: "Watcher's Prophecy".
    *   Check **Paragraph 7**: "Wren Hessik".
    
    *   **What if "The Felling" is NOT a war?**
    *   Codex: "category>War".
    *   Text: "Riven War", "Felling broke the world".
    *   Implies war.
    
    *   **What if "Kindling" is NOT dark iron?**
    *   Codex: "Dark iron".
    *   Text: "dark iron".
    
    *   **What if "Sable" does NOT have auburn hair?**
    *   Codex: Auburn.
    *   Text: No mention.
    
    *   **What if "Torben" does NOT have silver hair?**
    *   Codex: Silver.
    *   Text: No mention.
    
    *   **What if "Torben" does NOT have green eyes?**
    *   Codex: Green.
    *   Text: "green eyes".
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Stray" is NOT Torben?**
    *   Codex: "Those who know him call him Stray".
    *   Text: "Torben — Stray".
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Old Rivka" is the ONLY character with an "Old" nickname?**
    *   No rule.
    
    *   **Wait, look at Paragraph 4: "Queen Veredine... an elf".**
    *   Codex: Only mentions Torben's mother as an elf.
    *   Does "an elf" imply she is the only one? No.
    
    *   **Let's check the date of "The Felling" one more time.**
    *   Codex: "Two centuries ago".
    *   Text: "Two centuries ago".
    *   Is it possible the text says "Two decades"? No, "centuries".
    
    *   **Is it possible that "The Kindling Rite" is NOT a funerary tradition?**
    *   Codex: "funerary tradition".
    *   Text: Doesn't describe it, just mentions the sword name.
    
    *   **Could the violation be "The Spire of Echoes" being a fortress?**
    *   Codex: No mention of Spire.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Grunn" is actually "Torben"?** No.
    
    *   **Let's look at the "Warden's Mail" again.**
    *   Text: "silver chain".
    *   Codex: No item.
    
    *   **Is it possible that the "Nightbell" contradicts the "Rusty Lantern" bell?**
    *   Codex doesn't mention a bell at the Lantern.
    
    *   **Wait, I see "The Felling reached the coast" in the text.**
    *   Codex: "When The Felling reached the coast".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Petal" is NOT Sable's sister?**
    *   Codex: Sister.
    *   Text: "My sister".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Jurren" is NOT the father?**
    *   Codex: Father.
    *   Text: Implied father.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Kindling" flare condition.**
    *   Codex: "moments of great intensity".
    *   Text: Standoff, accusation. High intensity.
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Osrik" is "Stray"?**
    *   No.
    
    *   **What if "Old Tetch" is a violation of "Old Rivka"?**
    *   Maybe the Codex implies "Old [Name]" is unique to Rivka?
    *   "Old Rivka is the kind of woman..."
    *   No exclusivity stated.
    
    *   **Is it possible that the "Riven War" is the SAME as "The Felling"?**
    *   Text: "The Riven War... A thousand years before the Felling".
    *   Explicitly different.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Queen Veredine" is a violation of "Sable"?**
    *   No.
    
    *   **Okay, let's look at the "Kindling" item description in the Codex again.**
    *   "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling".
    *   Text: "Sable drew Kindling".
    *   Implies she named it.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Harrowglass" is a violation of "Kindling" being the ONLY named sword?**
    *   Codex doesn't say "only".
    
    *   **Wait, I found a subtle one.**
    *   **Paragraph 7**: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
    *   **Codex Character 103 (Petal)**: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. They ran. Petal did not make it."
    *   **Codex Character 101 (Sable)**: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
    *   **Codex Lore 109**: "The Felling... swept across the world approximately two centuries before the present day".
    *   **Codex Character 101 (Sable)**: Age 28.
    *   If the Text says "You were there", and the Codex says "Sable was there", but the Codex also says "Felling was 200 years ago" and "Sable is 28", then the statement "Sable was there" is factually impossible given the other Codex data.
    *   However, the Codex *itself* asserts "Sable was there" in the backstory.
    *   If the Codex asserts A (She was there) and B (She is 28) and C (Event was 200 years ago), then A, B, and C are mutually exclusive.
    *   If the Text asserts A, is it violating the Codex?
    *   It violates B and C, which are part of the Codex.
    *   So, if the Text says "You were there" (A), it contradicts the combination of B and C in the Codex which makes A impossible.
    *   But usually, "Backstory" overrides "Math". The Backstory says she was there. The Age/Date might be the error in the Codex setup, but the narrative truth is she was there.
    *   If I flag this, I am saying the Text contradicts the Codex's *timeline*, even though it matches the Codex's *narrative*.
    *   Let's assume the "200 years" is the hard fact. Then Sable (28) could not have been there. The Backstory saying she was there is the error.
    *   But the Text repeats the Backstory.
    *   If I have to choose, the "200 years" is a specific data point (Lore 109, timePeriod). The Backstory is a narrative summary.
    *   If the Text says "You were there", it asserts Sable was alive 200 years ago.
    *   Codex says Sable is 28.
    *   28 != 200+.
    *   So the Text contradicts the **age** of Sable in the Codex (by implying she is 200+).
    *   Entry: 101. Detail: age.
    *   Substring: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
    *   Explanation: The text implies Sable was present at The Felling, which the codex states occurred two centuries ago, contradicting her listed age of 28.
    
    *   **Is there any other violation?**
    *   What about "Grunn" being a dwarf? If the world only has Humans and Elves (implied by only listing those)?
    *   Codex doesn't say "only".
    *   What about "Tiefling"? Same.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Kindling" blade material again.**
    *   Codex: "Dark iron".
    *   Text: "dark iron".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Locket" material.**
    *   Codex: "Silver".
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Let's check the "Rusty Lantern" location.**
    *   Codex: "waterfront".
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Let's check "Torben" hair.**
    *   Codex: "Silver".
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Let's check "Sable" eyes.**
    *   Codex: "Brown".
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Let's check "Sable" hair.**
    *   Codex: "Auburn".
    *   Text: Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Conclusion**: The only strong candidate is the Timeline/Age contradiction regarding Sable and The Felling.
    *   Codex Lore 109: Felling = 200 years ago.
    *   Codex Char 101: Sable = 28 years old.
    *   Codex Char 101 Backstory: Sable was there.
    *   Text: Sable was there.
    *   The Text aligns with the Backstory but contradicts the Age+Lore combination.
    *   However, if the Backstory says she was there, then for the Codex to be consistent, she must be 200+. The "28" is likely the typo in the Codex provided by the user.
    *   BUT, as an editor, if the Codex says "Age: 28", and the Text says "I was there 200 years ago", that is a contradiction of the "Age" field.
    *   I will flag this.
    
    *   **Wait, is there a simpler one?**
    *   "Old Rivka" vs "Old Tetch"? No.
    *   "Stray" alias? No.
    *   "Kindling" behavior? No.
    
    *   **Let's check "The Felling" category.**
    *   Codex: War.
    *   Text: War.
    
    *   **Let's check "Dunmore" terrain.**
    *   Codex: Coastal, salt cliffs.
    *   Text: Hatchwell, mountain base.
    *   Different places.
    
    *   **One more check: "The Kindling Rite".**
    *   Codex: "requires a body".
    *   Text: "No body was recovered" (implied by Codex backstory, not stated in text).
    *   Text: "died at your hands".
    *   If the Text implies a body was present to be killed, but Codex says no body recovered, is that a contradiction?
    *   "Died at your hands" doesn't require a body to remain. Could be disintegrated.
    *   Codex: "nothing was left behind".
    *   Consistent.
    
    *   **Final Decision**: The Age/Timeline contradiction is the only factual inconsistency between the Text's narrative assertion (supported by Codex Backstory) and the Codex's specific Data Fields (Age + TimePeriod).
    *   Wait, if the Codex Backstory says she was there, then the "Age: 28" is the outlier.
    *   If I flag the Text, I am saying the Text is wrong. But the Text is following the Backstory.
    *   Maybe the violation is that the Text *should* have noticed the age discrepancy? No, that's not how this works.
    *   Maybe there is NO violation?
    *   Let's re-read the Codex Character 101 Age. "28".
    *   Lore 109 TimePeriod: "Two centuries ago".
    *   Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast...".
    *   This is a "broken" Codex.
    *   If the Codex is broken, does the Text violate it?
    *   If the Text says "Sable (28) was there (200 years ago)", it violates the laws of physics, but does it violate the Codex? The Codex *says* she was there.
    *   So the Codex asserts the impossible.
    *   The Text asserts the impossible (as per Codex).
    *   Therefore, Text is **Consistent** with Codex.
    *   I should **not** flag this.
    
    *   **So, are there ANY violations?**
    *   Let's look at **Paragraph 2**: "the dwarf Grunn".
    *   If the Codex doesn't mention Dwarves, is it a violation? No.
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "Tiefling". No.
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "Harrowglass". No.
    *   **Paragraph 5**: "Warden's Mail". No.
    *   **Paragraph 6**: "Nightbell". No.
    *   **Paragraph 6**: "Watcher's Prophecy". No.
    *   **Paragraph 4**: "Riven War". No.
    *   **Paragraph 4**: "Queen Veredine". No.
    *   **Paragraph 4**: "Pallid Host". No.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Stray" is NOT Torben?**
    *   Codex: "Those who know him call him Stray".
    *   Text: "Torben — Stray".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Kindling" is NOT the sword's name?**
    *   Codex: "gave it the name Kindling".
    *   Text: "drew Kindling".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Sable" does NOT have a locket?**
    *   Codex: "carries Petal's silver locket".
    *   Text: Doesn't say she doesn't.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Torben" does NOT have green eyes?**
    *   Codex: Green.
    *   Text: Green.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Old Rivka" is mentioned incorrectly?**
    *   Not mentioned.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "Dunmore" is mentioned incorrectly?**
    *   Not mentioned as existing.
    
    *   **Is it possible that "The Felling" is mentioned incorrectly?**
    *   "Two centuries ago". Match.
    
    *   **I am leaning towards <violations-none/>.**
    *   Why? Because every specific detail in the text that overlaps with the codex (Torben's eyes, Stray alias, Kindling name/material/behavior, Felling date, Sable's presence at Felling per backstory, Petal's death/no body) matches the codex.
    *   The new elements (Grunn, Iselda, Hemmen, Osrik, Spire, Harrowglass, etc.) do not contradict any negative constraints in the codex (e.g., "There are no dwarves", "Kindling is the only magic sword").
    *   The timeline paradox exists in the Codex itself, and the Text faithfully reproduces it.
    
    *   **Wait, one last check: "The Felling" reached the coast.**
    *   Codex: "When The Felling reached the coast".
    *   Text: "when The Felling reached the coast".
    *   Exact match.
    
    *   **Check "Kindling" flare.**
    *   Codex: "flare beyond its wielder's control".
    *   Text: "brighter than Sable could control".
    *   Exact match.
    
    *   **Check "Petal's Locket" silence.**
    *   Codex: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud".
    *   Text: She says "Petal". She does not say "Petal's Locket".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Check "Stray" attitude.**
    *   Codex: "neither claims nor denies".
    *   Text: "as some still called him". Neutral.
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Check "Torben" description.**
    *   Codex: "quiet, watchful".
    *   Text: "Neither moved". "watched"? (Implicit).
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Check "Sable" description.**
    *   Codex: "quiet intensity", "speaks plainly".
    *   Text: "silence had a texture", "voice was steady".
    *   Match.
    
    *   **Check "Rusty Lantern" vs "Spire".**
    *   No overlap.
    
    *   **Check "Dunmore" vs "Hatchwell".**
    *   No overlap.
    
    *   **Result**: No violations found. The text introduces new lore and characters but contradicts none of the established canonical facts in the codex. The internal timeline paradox of the codex is mirrored by the text, so it is not a text-vs-codex contradiction.

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50.00%

Correct "no violations" response

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No hallucinated violations

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50.0000%