Run: 2026-02-21-01KJ17FTKBEX5DV23A05HB8Z30

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:: 1m 40s
Cost:: $0.018117
Provider:: Alibaba

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
0.00%	Correct "no violations" response	(details)
16.67%	No hallucinated violations	(details)
8.3333%	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 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 text states the Riven War was a thousand years before The Felling, but the codex states The Felling occurred two centuries ago, and the context implies the Riven War and the sealing happened in ancient times relative to the current era, not just 800 years prior (which would be recent history compared to the "two centuries" landmark). More critically, the codex says The Felling was "approximately two centuries before the present day," making a war "a thousand years before" it 1200 years ago. While not a direct contradiction of the *date* of The Felling, the phrasing suggests a specific timeline. However, the real violation is likely the implication of the timeline relative to the "two centuries" marker being the primary historical break. Let's look closer. Actually, the codex doesn't give a date for the Riven War, so "1000 years before" isn't strictly a contradiction unless the codex implies a different timeline. Let's re-evaluate. Is there a harder contradiction?
Wait, let's look at Paragraph 5: "Osrik Pallengrave... He was a Tiefling". The codex does not have an entry for Osrik Pallengrave, Grunn, Iselda, Hemmen, or Mettik. I cannot flag them as violations if they aren't in the codex.
Let's re-read the codex for The Felling. "The Felling was a catastrophic war that swept across the world approximately two centuries before the present day".
Text: "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago." (Paragraph 6). This matches.
Text: "A thousand years before the Felling." (Paragraph 4). The codex doesn't mention the Riven War. This might be new lore, not a contradiction.
Let's check character details again.
Paragraph 2: "Torben — Stray...". Codex 100: "Those who know him call him Stray". Matches.
Paragraph 2: "Sable stood to his left". Codex doesn't specify position.
Paragraph 2: "dwarf Grunn". Codex has no entry for Grunn.
Paragraph 2: "Iselda". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 2: "Brother Hemmen — the Eyeless... ashen eyes". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 2: "Captain Mettik". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 5: "Osrik Pallengrave... Tiefling". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 5: "Harrowglass". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 6: "Warden's Mail". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 7: "Nightbell", "Tithe of Echoes", "Watcher's Prophecy". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 8: "Wren Hessik". Codex has no entry.
Paragraph 8: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast." Osrik is being accused of being there. The codex says Sable's sister Petal died then. If Osrik is a Tiefling and The Felling was 200 years ago, and Tieflings usually have human-like lifespans (unless specified otherwise), he couldn't be there unless he is immortal or very old. The codex doesn't define Tiefling lifespan. This is an assumption.
However, let's look at **Petal**.
Paragraph 8: "And before her — Petal. My sister. You remember, don't you? You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
Codex 103 (Petal): "No body was recovered after The Felling... The circumstances of her death remain unspoken — Sable has never described what happened... only that her sister was lost and that nothing was left behind."
The text implies Osrik killed Petal ("Wren Hessik died at your hands... And before her — Petal."). The codex says "The circumstances of her death remain unspoken" and "Sable has never described what happened". If the text presents this as a revealed fact that Sable is now speaking aloud, is it a contradiction? The codex says she *has never* described it. In the text, she *is* describing it (accusing Osrik). This is a contradiction of her established behavior/history described in the codex ("Sable has never described what happened").
Also, Codex 103 says "No body was recovered... no Kindling Rite could be performed". The text doesn't contradict the lack of body, but implies a specific killer.
Let's look for physical description contradictions.
Codex 100 (Torben): "green eyes", "silver hair".
Text Paragraph 1: "Torben... stood at the base". No description of hair/eyes here.
Text Paragraph 5: "Torben stepped forward. His green eyes met Osrik's red ones". Matches codex (green eyes).
Codex 101 (Sable): "Auburn hair", "Brown eyes".
Text Paragraph 8: "Sable drew Kindling... She didn't look at the blade. She looked at Osrik." No eye/hair color mentioned in text to contradict.
Codex 107 (Kindling): "dark iron", "fire along its edge".
Text Paragraph 8: "The dark iron blade caught the Nightbell's resonance and the fire along its edge flared". Matches.
Codex 108 (Locket): "silver locket".
Text does not mention the locket.
Codex 102 (Old Rivka): Not in text.
Codex 104 (Jurren): Not in text.
Codex 105 (Rusty Lantern): Not in text.
Codex 106 (Dunmore): "port village... on the salt cliffs".
Text Paragraph 4: "Hatchwell — the town that stood at the mountain's base — burned." Hatchwell is a new location. Not a contradiction.
Text Paragraph 4: "Queen Veredine... an elf". Codex doesn't say elves can't be queens.
Text Paragraph 4: "Pallid Host". New lore.

Let's re-examine the "Sable has never described" part.
Codex 103: "The circumstances of her death remain unspoken — Sable has never described what happened in the hours after they fled..."
Text Paragraph 8: 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."
By speaking these words, she is describing the circumstances (that Osrik was there and responsible). This contradicts the codex statement that she "has never described what happened".

Is there anything else?
Codex 100: "Torben's mother was an elf".
Text Paragraph 4: "Queen Veredine... an elf". No contradiction.

What about the timeline?
Codex 109: "The Felling... two centuries before the present day".
Text Paragraph 6: "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago." Matches.
Text Paragraph 4: "A thousand years before the Felling." This sets the Riven War at 1200 years ago. The codex doesn't forbid this.

Let's check the items again.
Codex 107: Kindling is "dark iron". Text: "dark iron blade". OK.
Codex 108: Petal's Locket is "silver". Text doesn't mention it.

Are there any location contradictions?
The text takes place at "The Spire of Echoes" in the mountains. The codex only lists "The Rusty Lantern" and "Dunmore". Since the codex doesn't say "The Spire of Echoes does not exist", this is not a contradiction.

Let's look really closely at the characters in the text vs codex descriptions.
Torben: Text says "green eyes" (Para 5). Codex says "Green". OK.
Sable: Text says nothing about physical traits that contradict "Auburn hair", "Brown eyes", "Human".
Grunn: "dwarf". Codex has no entry.
Iselda: "pale features", "translucent wing" (Para 9). Codex has no entry.
Hemmen: "ashen eyes", "Eyeless" (title). Codex has no entry.
Mettik: "human soldier". Codex has no entry.
Osrik: "Tiefling", "horns", "black hair", "red eyes". Codex has no entry.

Is it possible the user considers the introduction of new major lore (Riven War, Pallid Host, Queen Veredine) as a violation because it's not in the codex? The instructions say: "Do not flag stylistic choices, omissions, or things not covered by the codex — only flag direct contradictions." So new lore is fine.

The only strong candidate is Sable speaking about Petal's death.
Codex 103: "The circumstances of her death remain unspoken — Sable has never described what happened..."
Text 8: Sable explicitly accuses Osrik of being there and implies his responsibility ("Wren Hessik died at your hands... And before her — Petal... You were there").
This is a direct contradiction of the character history established in the codex.

Are there any other subtle ones?
Codex 101: "She carries Petal's silver locket at her throat".
Text 8: "Sable drew Kindling... Her voice was steady but her knuckles were white around the hilt." It doesn't mention the locket, but doesn't say she *isn't* wearing it.
Codex 101: "dark iron blade Kindling at her side".
Text 8: "Sable drew Kindling." Matches.

What about "The Felling reached the coast"?
Codex 109: "Along the coast, its effects were particularly severe — the port village of Dunmore was reduced..."
Codex 101: "When The Felling reached the coast..."
Text 8: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast." Matches.

What about "Hatchwell"?
Codex doesn't mention Hatchwell. Not a contradiction.

What about "Wren Hessik"?
Codex doesn't mention her. Not a contradiction.

Is there a contradiction with Torben's name?
Codex 100: "aliases='Stray'". "Those who know him call him Stray — a name he neither claims nor denies".
Text 1: "Torben — Stray, as some still called him". Matches.

Is there a contradiction with the Kindling Rite?
Codex 110: "The ritual requires a body; without one, the Rite cannot be performed".
Codex 103: "No body was recovered... no Kindling Rite could be performed".
Text doesn't mention the rite being performed, so no contradiction.

Let's reconsider the "Sable has never described" point.
The codex says: "Sable has never described what happened in the hours after they fled".
The text has her saying: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast. You were there when the world caught fire."
Does stating "You were there" count as describing "what happened"?
She also says "Wren Hessik died at your hands... And before her — Petal." This attributes the cause of death (Osrik's hands/actions). The codex says the circumstances are unspoken and she has never described what happened. By attributing the death to Osrik in dialogue, she is describing the circumstance (killer identity/presence). This seems like a valid violation.

Are there any errors in the existing codex entities' attributes?
Torben: Green eyes (Text: Yes), Silver hair (Text: Not mentioned).
Sable: Brown eyes (Text: Not mentioned), Auburn hair (Text: Not mentioned), Human (Text: Not contradicted).
Kindling: Dark iron (Text: Yes), Fire power (Text: Yes).
Petal's Locket: Silver (Text: Not mentioned).
Dunmore: Coastal, salt cliffs (Text: Mentions Dunmore family, but scene is at Spire).
The Felling: 2 centuries ago (Text: Yes).

Wait, look at Paragraph 4 again.
"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".
This is backstory for the Spire. Not a contradiction.

Is there a contradiction regarding the "Kindling Rite" name?
Codex 110: "The Kindling Rite is a funerary tradition..."
Codex 107: "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling... an echo of the Kindling Rite".
Text 8: "split like kindling" (lowercase, metaphor).
Text 7: "Nightbell... Tithe of Echoes".
No contradiction.

Let's verify the "Sable has never described" violation.
Entry: 103 (Petal Dunmore).
Detail: backstory (specifically the phrase "Sable has never described what happened").
Paragraph: 8.
Substring: "Wren Hessik died at your hands," she said. ... "And before her — Petal. My sister. You remember, don't you? You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
Explanation: The codex states Sable has never described the circumstances of Petal's death, but in the text she explicitly accuses Osrik of being present and responsible.

Is there anything about "Stray"?
Codex: "a name he neither claims nor denies".
Text: "Stray, as some still called him". This is consistent.

Is there anything about "Old Rivka"?
Not in text.

Is there anything about "Jurren"?
Not in text.

What about the "Eyeless" title for Hemmen?
Text: "Brother Hemmen — the Eyeless".
Text later: "his ashen eyes turned toward the Spire", "his ashen eyes closed".
If he is called "the Eyeless", does he have eyes?
"Eyeless" could be a title meaning "seer" or "blind to the physical world" but still having physical eyes, or it could mean he lacks them.
Text says: "his ashen eyes turned toward the Spire". "his ashen eyes closed".
So he *has* eyes.
If the title "the Eyeless" implies he has no eyes, then the text is internally inconsistent, but is it a codex violation? The codex has no entry for Hemmen. So I cannot check if "Eyeless" means "no eyes" in the codex. I can only check against the codex. Since Hemmen isn't in the codex, I can't flag this as a codex violation, even if it's weird.

What about "Grunn... Burden still strapped to his back — then swung the great mace free"?
Codex has no entry for Grunn or Burden.

What about "Warden's Mail"?
Codex has no entry.

What about "Verity Beads"?
Codex has no entry.

It seems the **only** violation is Sable speaking about Petal's death.

Let me double check the "two centuries" vs "thousand years" thing.
Codex 109: "The Felling... approximately two centuries before the present day".
Text 6: "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago." (Consistent).
Text 4: "The Riven War... A thousand years before the Felling."
This means the Riven War was 1200 years ago.
Does the codex say anything about what happened 1200 years ago? No.
Does the codex say The Felling was the *first* war? No.
So this is fine.

Let's double check the "Kindling" item.
Codex 107: "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling".
Text 8: "Sable drew Kindling."
Consistent.

Let's double check "Petal's Locket".
Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud".
Text 8: She says "Petal. My sister." She does not say "Petal's Locket".
Consistent.

Let's double check "Torben's mother was an elf".
Text doesn't mention his mother.

Let's double check "Dunmore" location.
Codex 106: "Dunmore was a port village... The village is gone now".
Text doesn't place characters in Dunmore.

Okay, I'm confident the only violation is Sable breaking her silence about Petal's death.

Wait, is there a violation with "The Felling reached the coast"?
Codex 109: "Along the coast, its effects were particularly severe".
Codex 101: "When The Felling reached the coast".
Text 8: "when The Felling reached the coast".
Consistent.

Is there a violation with "Kindling Rite"?
Codex 110: "The ritual requires a body".
Codex 103: "No body was recovered... no Kindling Rite could be performed".
Text doesn't mention the rite.

One more check:
Codex 100: "Torben moves through the world with the careful economy of someone who has learned that silence often reveals more than speech."
Text 1: "Torben... stood at the base... He had been in worse places. Not many." (Internal monologue/narration, not speech).
Text 5: "Torben stepped forward... Neither moved."
Text 9: "Torben moved left."
Consistent with being quiet/watchful.

Codex 101: "She speaks plainly, without flourish, and expects the same from others."
Text 8: "Wren Hessik died at your hands... You remember, don't you? You were there..."
Plain speech. Consistent.

Final decision: The violation is Sable describing the circumstances of Petal's death.

<violation entry="103" detail="backstory" paragraph="8" substring="Wren Hessik died at your hands," she said. ... "And before her — Petal. My sister. You remember, don't you? You were there when The Felling reached the coast.">The codex states that the circumstances of Petal's death remain unspoken and that Sable has never described what happened, but in the text she explicitly accuses Osrik of being present and responsible for Petal's death.</violation>

Wait, the prompt asks for "every factual inconsistency".
Is "Wren Hessik" a violation? The codex doesn't mention her. But if she is a new character, that's not a violation. Unless the codex implies Sable *only* lost Petal?
Codex 101: "The loss of her sister has shaped every choice Sable has made since." It doesn't say Petal was her *only* loss, just the defining one.
Codex 103: "Petal Dunmore is remembered more than she is known... preserved now only in her sister Sable's memory".
If Wren Hessik is another person Sable knew who died, does "preserved now only in her sister Sable's memory" imply Petal is the *only* one? "Only in her sister's memory" refers to Petal's preservation, not the exclusivity of Sable's grief.
However, if Wren Hessik is a significant character introduced without codex backing, is it a violation? The instructions say "Do not flag ... things not covered by the codex". So new characters are fine.

What about "The Spire of Echoes"? Not in codex. Fine.
"The Riven War"? Not in codex. Fine.
"Queen Veredine"? Not in codex. Fine.
"Pallid Host"? Not in codex. Fine.

Okay, sticking with the Sable violation.

One detail: The codex says "Sable has never described what happened in the hours after they fled".
In the text, she says "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
Does "You were there" describe "what happened"?
She also says "Wren Hessik died at your hands... And before her — Petal."
This implies Osrik killed Petal (or was responsible). This is a description of the circumstance of death (killed by Osrik/The Felling agents). The codex says "The circumstances of her death remain unspoken".
Yes, this is a contradiction.

<violation entry="103" detail="backstory" paragraph="8" substring="Wren Hessik died at your hands," she said. ... "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.">The codex states that the circumstances of Petal's death remain unspoken and that Sable has never described what happened, but here she explicitly identifies Osrik as being present and implies his responsibility for Petal's death.</violation>

Is there any other?
Codex 100: "Torben's mother was an elf".
Text doesn't contradict.

Codex 107: "Kindling... fire along its edge... visible only to those who watch closely."
Text 8: "the fire along its edge flared — brighter than Torben had seen it, brighter than Sable could control."
This implies it is usually faint (consistent with "visible only to those who watch closely") but now it is flaring bright. This is consistent with "In moments of great intensity, the fire along the edge has been known to flare beyond its wielder's control".
So this is NOT a violation. It matches the "flare" description perfectly.

Codex 108: "Petal's Locket... On rare occasions the locket has been observed to emit a brief, faint pulse of light".
Text doesn't mention the locket glowing. Not a violation.

Codex 102: "Old Rivka... tends bar at the Rusty Lantern".
Text doesn't mention her.

Codex 104: "Jurren Dunmore... Whether Jurren survived The Felling himself is a question Sable has never answered".
Text doesn't mention Jurren's fate.

Okay, just the one violation.

<violation entry="103" detail="backstory" paragraph="8" substring="Wren Hessik died at your hands," she said. ... "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.">The codex states that the circumstances of Petal's death remain unspoken and that Sable has never described what happened, but in this passage she explicitly accuses Osrik of being present during The Felling and implies he was responsible for Petal's death.</violation>

Wait, I should check if "Wren Hessik" contradicts anything.
If the codex said "Sable only knew Petal and her father", then Wren would be a contradiction.
Codex 101: "Sable grew up by the sea with her sister Petal and their father Jurren."
It lists who she grew up with. It doesn't say "only".
"Wren Hessik died at your hands... And before her — Petal."
This implies Wren died recently ("And before her" meaning prior to Wren, or Wren then Petal? "Wren died... And before her [Wren], Petal." So Petal died first, then Wren).
This fits the timeline (Petal 200 years ago? No, Sable is 28.
Wait.
Codex 101: Sable is 28.
Codex 109: The Felling was 200 years ago.
Codex 101: "When The Felling reached the coast... Sable to take Petal and run... Petal did not survive".
If Sable is 28 now, and The Felling was 200 years ago, how did Sable lose Petal in The Felling?
"The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago." (Codex 106, 109).
"Sable... age 28". (Codex 101).
"Sable grew up... When The Felling reached the coast... Petal did not survive". (Codex 101).
This implies Sable was alive during The Felling 200 years ago? But she is 28.
This is a contradiction IN THE CODEX itself? Or did I misread?
Codex 106: "Dunmore... destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
Codex 101: "When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run. She did, but Petal did not survive".
If Sable is 28, she couldn't have been there 200 years ago unless she is immortal or the timeline is different.
Or maybe "The Felling" happened in waves?
Codex 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war that swept across the world approximately two centuries before the present day".
Codex 101 Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast...".
If Sable is 28, and the event was 200 years ago, there is a massive continuity error in the codex provided, OR the text fixes it, OR the text violates it.
The text says: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast." (Sable to Osrik).
If Sable is 28, she wasn't there 200 years ago.
Unless "The Felling" is an ongoing thing?
Codex 109: "swept across the world approximately two centuries before the present day". Past tense. Completed action.
Codex 101: Sable is 28.
This implies Sable's backstory in the codex contains an impossibility (being an adult/child 200 years ago and now being 28).
OR, "The Felling" reached the coast 200 years ago (destroying Dunmore), but Sable's family story is about a *later* event?
Codex 106: "Dunmore... destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
Codex 101: "Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast...".
This implies Sable was in Dunmore when it was destroyed 200 years ago.
But she is 28.
This is a contradiction within the codex provided.
But my task is to find inconsistencies between the TEXT and the CODEX.
If the codex says X (Sable was at the Felling 200 years ago) and the text says Y (Sable was at the Felling), they agree on the event attendance, even if the codex's internal math (28 vs 200) is broken.
However, if the text clarifies the timeline, does it contradict the codex's "200 years ago"?
Text 6: "The Felling broke the world two centuries ago." (Matches codex).
Text 8: "You were there when The Felling reached the coast."
If Sable is speaking, and she is 28 (codex), and the event was 200 years ago, she is claiming to have been there 200 years ago.
This is consistent with the codex's flawed backstory (which places her there).
So the text does not contradict the codex on this point; they both share the same impossible timeline.
Therefore, I should not flag this as a text-vs-codex violation. The error is in the codex's internal logic, but the text adheres to the codex's narrative claim (that Sable was there).

Wait, is it possible "The Felling" is a recurring event?
Codex 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war... two centuries before". Singular, past.
So the timeline error is in the codex. I must ignore internal codex errors and only check Text vs Codex.
Text agrees with Codex that Sable was there. Text agrees with Codex that it was 200 years ago.
So no violation there.

Back to the "Sable has never described" point.
Codex: "Sable has never described what happened".
Text: She describes it.
This is a valid violation.

Are there any others?
Codex 100: "Torben... aliases='Stray'".
Text: "Torben — Stray". OK.

Codex 107: "Kindling... dark iron".
Text: "dark iron blade". OK.

Codex 108: "Petal's Locket... silver".
Text: No mention.

Codex 101: "Sable... auburn hair... brown eyes".
Text: No mention of hair/eyes color.

Codex 100: "Torben... green eyes... silver hair".
Text: "green eyes". No mention of hair.

I think the Sable violation is the only one.

<violation entry="103" detail="backstory" paragraph="8" substring="Wren Hessik died at your hands," she said. ... "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.">The codex states that the circumstances of Petal's death remain unspoken and that Sable has never described what happened, but in the text she explicitly accuses Osrik of being present and responsible for Petal's death.</violation>

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0.00%

Correct "no violations" response

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

hasViolationTags	true
hasViolationsNoneTag	false
matchedPhrase	(null)

16.67%

No hallucinated violations

Response must not contain any <violation> tags

hasViolationTags	true
responseLength	24360
violationCount	5

8.3333%