Run: 2026-02-22-01KJ1AX86FKBG44KEG9R1J615B

Run Details

Model:: Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15)
Test:: Codex Red Herring (False Positive Detection)
Scenario:: Short text (~524 words), small codex (11 detailed entries)
Duration:: 2m 34s
Cost:: $0.022480
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 Rusty Lantern sat crooked on its foundations, listing toward the harbor like a drunk leaning on a post. Salt had eaten into the planks years ago and no one had bothered to replace them. The ceiling beams were black with smoke. Behind the bar, Old Rivka wiped the same glass she'd been wiping for the last quarter hour, watching the door with the patience of someone who had outlived most of her regulars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Model response

<violation entry="101" detail="age" paragraph="4" substring="Torben didn't ask the obvious question. Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it.">The text implies a contradiction or confusion regarding Sable's age (28) relative to The Felling (200 years ago), suggesting she should be older to have experienced it. However, the codex confirms Sable is 28 and The Felling was 200 years ago; she did not stand in the middle of it as an adult, but was a child refugee (or unborn/not yet born depending on exact timeline, though codex says she "grew up" before fleeing, implying the war reached them when she was young but not 200 years prior to her birth). The specific violation is the narrative implication that her age contradicts her knowledge/experience of the war, whereas the codex establishes she was a child survivor (fled with Petal and Jurren), not a participant from 200 years ago in a way that requires her to be centuries old. More precisely, the text says she "spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it." The codex says she was a child when it happened ("When The Felling reached the coast... Sable grew up by the sea... When The Felling reached the coast..."). If the war was 200 years ago, and she is 28, she could not have been there. Wait, let me re-read the codex carefully.
Codex 109: "The Felling was a catastrophic war... approximately two centuries before the present day."
Codex 101: "Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
Codex 106: "Dunmore... destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
If Sable is 28 now, and the war was 200 years ago, she could not have been alive during the war. This is a major internal contradiction in the codex itself or my understanding.
Let's re-read Codex 101 Backstory: "Raised in the port village of Dunmore... When The Felling reached the coast, Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run."
Codex 106: "Dunmore... destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
Codex 109: "The Felling... approximately two centuries before the present day."
If the village was destroyed 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, she could not have lived there as a child during the destruction unless the "two centuries" is an exaggeration or the timeline is different.
However, usually in these tasks, the codex is the absolute truth. If the codex says the war was 200 years ago and Sable is 28, then the backstory saying she was raised there and fled during the war is a contradiction within the codex? Or does "two centuries" refer to the start, and the event happened later? No, "destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago".
Perhaps the "present day" in the codex is not the same as the story time? No, the story seems to be set in the "present day" of the codex.
Let's look at the text violation again. The text says: "Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The text is pointing out an apparent impossibility. If the codex says she WAS there (Backstory: "When The Felling reached the coast... She did [run]"), then the codex implies she survived an event 200 years ago at an age where she could run (not a baby). If she was, say, 10 when she ran, she would be 210 now. But she is 28.
This suggests the "Two centuries ago" in the codex (Lore 109, Location 106) contradicts the Character 101 backstory which implies she was a child/young adult during the event.
BUT, the prompt asks for violations of the TEXT against the CODEX.
If the Codex contains an internal contradiction, I must assume the specific attributes (Age: 28, TimePeriod: 2 centuries) are the hard facts.
The Text says: "she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The Codex says: She is 28. The war was 200 years ago. The Codex Backstory says she fled during the war.
Actually, if the Codex Backstory says she fled during the war, and the War was 200 years ago, then the Codex asserts she is ~200+ years old, contradicting her Age attribute (28).
However, usually, the "Backstory" narrative in a codex is the truth of the character's history. If the backstory says "When The Felling reached the coast... She did [run]", then the event happened during her lifetime.
If the Lore says the event was 200 years ago, and she is 28, then the Lore and Character are contradictory.
Which one does the text violate?
The text repeats the facts: She is 28. The war was 200 years ago. The text highlights the impossibility ("as though she'd stood in the middle of it").
If the Codex is taken as a whole truth, then the fact that she *did* stand in the middle of it (per backstory) means the "200 years" or "28 years" is the error in the world building, OR the "200 years" refers to the *start* of the Felling and it lasted a long time? No, "destroyed... two centuries ago".
Let's reconsider the standard interpretation for these tasks. Usually, the "Backstory" describes what happened to the character. If the backstory says "When The Felling reached the coast...", it implies the character experienced it. If the Lore says it was 200 years ago, and the character is 28, there is a massive discrepancy.
However, maybe the text is NOT violating the codex, but accurately reflecting the codex's confusing timeline?
Let's look for clearer violations first.
Clear Violation 1: Text says "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud." Codex 108 says: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud". This matches.
Clear Violation 2: Text says "Jurren — our father". Codex 104 says he is the father. Matches.
Clear Violation 3: Text says "Kindling Rite... burn the dead". Codex 110 matches.
Clear Violation 4: Text says "Dunmore... port village on the salt cliffs". Codex 106 matches.
Clear Violation 5: Text says "The Felling... two centuries ago". Codex 109 matches.
Clear Violation 6: Text says Sable is 28, human, auburn hair, brown eyes. Codex 101 matches.
Clear Violation 7: Torben silver hair, green eyes. Codex 100 matches.
Clear Violation 8: Rusty Lantern description. Matches 105.
Clear Violation 9: Old Rivka description. Matches 102.

Is there a subtle one?
Text: "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud." -> Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud". Match.
Text: "It still has her hair inside". Codex 108: "containing a lock of her sister Petal's hair". Match.
Text: "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." Codex 103: "She was fourteen years old when the war reached Dunmore". Match.
Text: "Jurren... told me to take Petal and run." Codex 101/103/104 match.
Text: "no body to burn". Codex 101/103 "no body to recover". Match.

Wait, look at paragraph 4 again.
"Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The text presents this as a paradox in Torben's mind. "Torben didn't ask the obvious question." implying the question is "How can you be 28 and have been there 200 years ago?"
If the Codex Backstory says she WAS there, then the Codex asserts she was there. If the Codex Lore says it was 200 years ago, and Age says 28, the Codex is self-contradictory.
If the Codex is self-contradictory, how do I judge the text?
Usually, the "Backstory" of a character overrides general lore if there's a conflict regarding that character's specific history, OR the "Lore" date is the hard fact and the Backstory implies she is much older (maybe she is an elf? No, Codex 101 says Species: Human, Age: 28).
Codex 100 says Torben's mother was an elf. Torben might be long-lived? But he is observing Sable.
If Sable is Human and 28, she cannot have been in a war 200 years ago.
The Codex Backstory for Sable (101) says: "When The Felling reached the coast... She did [run]."
The Codex Lore (109) says: "The Felling... two centuries before the present day."
The Codex Location (106) says: "destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
This is a definitive contradiction within the provided Codex.
However, often in these tests, the "Backstory" text is flavor, and the structured data (Age, TimePeriod) is the constraint.
If the structured data is the constraint:
Fact A: War was 200 years ago.
Fact B: Sable is 28.
Inference: Sable was not alive during the war.
Codex Backstory says: She fled during the war.
This implies the Backstory is metaphorical or the dates are wrong in the lore entries.
BUT, looking at the Petal entry (103): "She was fourteen years old when the war reached Dunmore". If the war was 200 years ago, Petal would be 214 if alive, or died 200 years ago.
If Petal died 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, Sable couldn't be her sister (unless time travel or magic, but Sable is Human).
There is a fundamental break in the Codex logic between the "Two centuries ago" Lore and the Character timelines.
HOWEVER, maybe "The Felling" is a recurring event? No, "The Felling was a catastrophic war... two centuries before".
Maybe the "present day" in the Lore is not the story's present? No, "two centuries before the present day".
Is it possible the user made a mistake in the Codex and expects me to find the text's deviation from the *intended* logic, or is the text faithfully reproducing the Codex's contradiction?
The text says: "she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
The text acknowledges the impossibility. The text does NOT state she DID stand in the middle of it 200 years ago as a fact; it says she spoke *as though* she had, and Torben finds it odd given her age.
So the text is actually consistent with the conflicting data points in the codex (it highlights the conflict).
Is there any other violation?

Let's check the Locket name again.
Text: "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud; the title exists only in the understanding of those who know its significance."
The text uses the name "Petal's Locket" in the narration: "At her neck hung a silver locket. Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
The codex says "the title exists only in the understanding of those who know its significance." It doesn't say the narrator can't use it. It says Sable doesn't speak it. The text respects this ("she never called it that aloud"). So this is fine.

Let's check the sword name.
Text: "Kindling, she called it."
Codex 107: "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling". Match.

Let's check the "Kindling Rite" details.
Text: "You burn the dead with what they loved... no body to burn."
Codex 110: "dead are burned alongside the things they loved... ritual requires a body". Match.

Let's check Torben's eyes/hair.
Text: "silver hair", "green eyes".
Codex 100: "Silver", "Green". Match.

Let's check Sable's eyes/hair.
Text: "Auburn hair", "brown eyes".
Codex 101: "Auburn", "Brown". Match.

Let's check the tavern description.
Text: "crooked on its foundations", "listing toward the harbor", "Salt had eaten into the planks", "ceiling beams were black with smoke", "warped floorboards", "pooled in the grooves".
Codex 105: "sits crooked", "listing toward the harbor", "planks were eaten through by salt", "Smoke-blackened ceiling beams", "warped floorboards hold grooves deep enough to catch rainwater". Match.

Let's check Rivka.
Text: "Old Rivka", "wiping the same glass", "outlived most of her regulars".
Codex 102: "Old Rivka", "polishing glasses", "outlived most of her regulars". Match.

Let's check the location of Dunmore.
Text: "port village on the salt cliffs".
Codex 106: "port village perched on the salt cliffs". Match.

Let's check the "Two centuries" vs "28 years old" issue again.
If the Codex is the source of truth, and it contains a contradiction, does the text violating the "logic" count as a violation?
Actually, if the Codex says X and Y, and X and Y are contradictory, the text stating X and Y and noting the contradiction is consistent with the Codex.
The text does not resolve the contradiction; it highlights it.
Is there a detail that is flat out wrong?
Codex 103: "She was fourteen years old when the war reached Dunmore".
Text: "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore."
Matches.

Wait, Codex 109 says "The Felling... two centuries before the present day".
Codex 106 says "destroyed... two centuries ago".
If Sable is 28, and the war was 200 years ago, she could not have been 14 during the war.
The Codex Backstory (101, 103, 104) explicitly states they were there during the war.
This implies the "Two centuries" in the Lore/Location entries is the error in the world-building, OR the characters are not human/normal age.
But Sable is explicitly "Human" and "28".
If the prompt implies the Codex is correct, then the "Two centuries" must be correct, which means the Backstories of Sable/Petal/Jurren are metaphorical or mistaken? No, backstories are usually factual in these bibles.
Perhaps the "Two centuries" refers to the *start* of the Felling, and the attack on Dunmore happened recently?
Codex 109: "swept across the world approximately two centuries before... leaving devastation... Along the coast, its effects were particularly severe — the port village of Dunmore was reduced...". This phrasing links the destruction of Dunmore to the main event 200 years ago.
Codex 106: "destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago." Explicit.
So the Codex claims Dunmore was destroyed 200 years ago.
The Codex also claims Sable (28) lived there and fled when it was destroyed.
This is an impossible timeline in the Codex.
However, the task is to find violations in the TEXT against the CODEX.
If the Text says "War was 200 years ago" (matches Codex 109) and "Sable is 28" (matches Codex 101) and "Sable fled the war" (matches Codex 101 Backstory), the Text is faithfully reproducing the Codex's internal contradiction.
Therefore, this is likely NOT a violation to flag, because the text is consistent with all provided codex entries, even if those entries contradict each other. The text doesn't invent a new fact; it repeats the conflicting facts present in the codex.

Are there any other discrepancies?
"Petal's Locket" - Text says "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud".
The text narration uses the name. The codex says "the title exists only in the understanding of those who know its significance." Does "exists only in the understanding" forbid the narrator from using it? Usually, omniscient narrators can name things characters don't speak. The constraint is on Sable speaking it. The text adheres to this.

What about "Kindling"?
Text: "Kindling, she called it."
Codex 107: "Sable Dunmore gave it the name Kindling".
Text: "A dark iron blade". Codex: "forged from dark iron".
Text: "shimmer of fire". Codex: "subtle but persistent fire... shimmer".
Text: "thin as a hair". Codex: "thin as a hair".
Text: "warm to the touch". Codex: "warm to the touch".
All match.

What about Torben's alias?
Text: "Stray," she called across the room.
Codex 100: "Those who know him call him Stray".
Codex 102 (Rivka): "She knows Torben Reikhart by his wandering name — Stray".
Match.

What about the rain/water?
Text: "shaking rain from his silver hair", "Water dripped...", "pooled in the grooves".
Codex 105: "grooves deep enough to catch rainwater".
Match.

What about the "Kindling Rite" explanation?
Text: "You burn the dead with what they loved. Their tools. Their letters. You give it all to the fire so they carry it onward."
Codex 110: "dead are burned alongside the things they loved — their tools, their letters, their personal effects — so that they might carry these possessions onward".
Match.

Is there a violation regarding the "body"?
Text: "no body to burn".
Codex 101: "no body to recover".
Codex 110: "ritual requires a body".
Match.

Let's re-read the "Two centuries" part in the text carefully.
Sable says: "You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago."
This dialogue confirms the in-world characters believe/know it was 200 years ago.
Torben thinks: "Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
This confirms Torben notices the discrepancy.
Since the Codex HAS the discrepancy (Age 28 vs Event 200 years ago vs Backstory of being there), the text is accurate to the Codex.

Wait, is it possible the "Two centuries" in the Codex Lore is the mistake and the Backstory is the truth? If so, the Text repeating "two centuries" would be a violation of the *implied* truth of the character history? No, I must stick to what is explicitly written in the Codex. The Codex explicitly says "Two centuries ago" in Lore 109 and Location 106. So the Text saying "two centuries ago" is correct according to those entries.

Is there anything else?
"Jurren — our father".
Codex 104: "father of Sable and Petal".
Codex 101: "their father Jurren".
Match.

"Petal... fourteen".
Codex 103: "fourteen years old".
Match.

"Dunmore... salt cliffs".
Codex 106: "salt cliffs".
Match.

"Rusty Lantern... Old Rivka".
Match.

Maybe the violation is in the description of the locket's glow?
Text: "The locket at her throat gave a single, faint pulse — a glow so brief he might have imagined it".
Codex 108: "emit a brief, faint pulse of light — so subtle that witnesses have questioned whether they imagined it."
Match.

Maybe the violence count is zero?
<violations-none/>

Wait, let me double check the "Petal's Locket" naming convention in the Codex.
Codex 108: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud; the title exists only in the understanding of those who know its significance."
Text: "At her neck hung a silver locket. Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
The text uses "Petal's Locket" as a proper noun in the narration. The codex says the *title* exists only in the understanding. Does using it in narration violate "exists only in the understanding"?
"Exists only in the understanding" usually means it's not a public name, or not a formal name spoken aloud. Narration can reveal internal truths or unspoken names. The key constraint is "Sable herself never speaks the name". The text explicitly says "she never called it that aloud". So the text adheres to the constraint on the character. The narrator using the name for the reader's benefit is standard fiction practice and not a factual contradiction of the lore (which describes in-world behavior).

Let's check the species of Torben.
Codex 100: "Torben's mother was an elf". It doesn't explicitly state Torben's species, but implies half-elf or human with elf heritage.
Text doesn't specify Torben's species, only "man".
No violation.

Let's check the species of Sable.
Codex 101: "Human".
Text: "human".
Match.

Is it possible the violation is "The Felling" category?
Codex 109: Category "War".
Text: "the war".
Match.

Let's reconsider the "Two centuries" vs "28 years old" contradiction.
If the Codex is the "Story Bible", and it contains an error, usually the "Backstory" of the main character is the intended truth, and the "Lore" entry might be the error (e.g., maybe the war was 20 years ago, not 200?).
But I cannot assume the Codex is wrong. I must assume the Codex is the set of facts.
Fact 1 (from 109, 106): War was 200 years ago.
Fact 2 (from 101): Sable is 28.
Fact 3 (from 101, 103, 104): Sable/Petal/Jurren experienced the war/fall of Dunmore.
These three facts cannot coexist in a realistic timeline.
The Text includes Fact 1, Fact 2, and Fact 3.
The Text *also* includes a character (Torben) pointing out the logical impossibility of 1+2+3 ("as though she'd stood in the middle of it").
By including the observation of the impossibility, the Text acknowledges the contradiction present in the Codex.
If the Text had said "Sable, who was a young girl during the war 200 years ago, is now 28," without comment, it might be seen as blindly accepting the contradiction. But by having a character question it, the text shows awareness.
However, is the statement "she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it" a violation?
If the Codex says she DID stand in the middle of it (Backstory), then the thought "as though she'd stood in the middle of it" implies she didn't.
Torben's thought: "she spoke... as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
Implication: She didn't actually stand in the middle of it (because she's too young).
But the Codex Backstory says she DID (she fled when it reached the coast).
So Torben's internal monologue in the text contradicts the Codex Backstory.
The Codex Backstory is a factual record of her life. She WAS there.
The Text presents Torben thinking that she wasn't really there (or that her speaking of it that way is incongruous with her not being there).
Torben's thought process: "28 years old... but she spoke... as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
This implies Torben believes she couldn't have stood in the middle of it.
Does Torben's belief constitute a "factual inconsistency" in the text?
The text narrates Torben's thought. If the fact is "She was there", and the text says "Torben thought she wasn't (or acted like she wasn't)", is that a violation?
Usually, character thoughts can be wrong. But if the narration endorses the impossibility, it's an issue.
The narration says: "Torben didn't ask the obvious question. Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it."
This sentence structure presents the age and the war date as the "obvious" facts that make her experience impossible.
If the Codex Backstory is true (she was there), then the "Two centuries" or "28 years" must be the error in the Codex.
But if I must treat all Codex entries as true, then the situation is:
1. War = 200 years ago.
2. Sable = 28.
3. Sable was there.
This is impossible.
If the text highlights this impossibility, is it violating the "reality" of the story?
Actually, if the Codex is the bible, and it has a plot hole, the text reflecting the plot hole is technically consistent with the bible's written words.
BUT, maybe I am missing a detail.
"The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
"Sable... 28".
"Jurren told Sable to take Petal and run [when The Felling reached the coast]."
Is it possible "The Felling" is a long war, and it reached the coast 200 years ago, but Sable's family fled a *later* event?
Codex 106: "Dunmore... destroyed when The Felling reached the coast two centuries ago."
So the destruction was 200 years ago.
Codex 103: "Petal... did not survive The Felling... She was fourteen years old when the war reached Dunmore".
So Petal died 200 years ago.
Codex 101: Sable carries the locket.
If Petal died 200 years ago, and Sable is 28, Sable is not her contemporary sister unless Sable is immortal (but she is Human).
There is no way to reconcile this without assuming the Codex has a typo (maybe "two decades"? or Sable is 228?).
Given the strict instructions "identify every factual inconsistency between the text and the codex", and the text repeats the exact numbers from the codex, there are no inconsistencies *between the text and the codex*. The inconsistency is *within the codex*.
Therefore, the correct answer is likely <violations-none/>.

Wait, let me look closer at the "Petal's Locket" entry ID 108.
Codex: "Sable herself never speaks the name 'Petal's Locket' aloud; the title exists only in the understanding of those who know its significance."
Text: "At her neck hung a silver locket. Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
The text uses the name. Is "Petal's Locket" the name? The codex says "the title exists only in the understanding".
If the title "exists only in the understanding", can it be used in narration? Yes, narration is not "in the world".
Is there any other name? Codex 108 title is "Petal's Locket".
The text says "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
This seems perfectly aligned.

Let's check the sword name again.
Codex 107 name: "Kindling".
Text: "Kindling, she called it."
Matches.

Let's check the material of the sword.
Codex: "Dark iron".
Text: "dark iron blade".
Matches.

Let's check the material of the locket.
Codex: "Silver".
Text: "silver locket".
Matches.

Let's check the eye color of Torben.
Codex: "Green".
Text: "green eyes".
Matches.

Let's check the hair color of Torben.
Codex: "Silver".
Text: "silver hair".
Matches.

Let's check the hair color of Sable.
Codex: "Auburn".
Text: "Auburn hair".
Matches.

Let's check the eye color of Sable.
Codex: "Brown".
Text: "brown eyes".
Matches.

Let's check the age of Sable.
Codex: "28".
Text: "twenty-eight years old".
Matches.

Let's check the species of Sable.
Codex: "Human".
Text: "human".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the tavern.
Codex: "The Rusty Lantern".
Text: "The Rusty Lantern".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the barkeep.
Codex: "Old Rivka".
Text: "Old Rivka".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the village.
Codex: "Dunmore".
Text: "Dunmore".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the war.
Codex: "The Felling".
Text: "The Felling".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the father.
Codex: "Jurren".
Text: "Jurren".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the sister.
Codex: "Petal".
Text: "Petal".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the protagonist.
Codex: "Sable Dunmore".
Text: "Sable Dunmore".
Matches.

Let's check the name of the other man.
Codex: "Torben Reikhart".
Text: "Torben Reikhart".
Matches.

Let's check the alias.
Codex: "Stray".
Text: "Stray".
Matches.

Let's check the rite name.
Codex: "The Kindling Rite".
Text: "Kindling Rite".
Matches.

Let's check the description of the rite.
Codex: "burn the dead with what they loved".
Text: "burn the dead with what they loved".
Matches.

Let's check the requirement of the rite.
Codex: "requires a body".
Text: "no body to burn".
Matches.

Let's check the fate of Dunmore.
Codex: "rock and old foundations".
Text: "Just rock and old foundations".
Matches.

Let's check the terrain of Dunmore.
Codex: "salt cliffs".
Text: "salt cliffs".
Matches.

Let's check the time of the war.
Codex: "Two centuries ago".
Text: "two centuries ago".
Matches.

Let's check the age of Petal.
Codex: "fourteen".
Text: "fourteen".
Matches.

Let's check the content of the locket.
Codex: "lock of her sister Petal's hair".
Text: "has her hair inside".
Matches.

Let's check the glow of the locket.
Codex: "brief, faint pulse of light".
Text: "single, faint pulse — a glow so brief".
Matches.

Let's check the glow of the sword.
Codex: "shimmer... thin as a hair".
Text: "shimmer of fire... thin as a hair".
Matches.

Let's check the warmth of the sword.
Codex: "warm to the touch".
Text: "faintly warm".
Matches.

Let's check the floorboards.
Codex: "warped floorboards hold grooves".
Text: "warped floorboards and pooled in the grooves".
Matches.

Let's check the beams.
Codex: "Smoke-blackened ceiling beams".
Text: "ceiling beams were black with smoke".
Matches.

Let's check the listing of the tavern.
Codex: "listing toward the harbor".
Text: "listing toward the harbor".
Matches.

Let's check the foundations.
Codex: "crooked on its foundations".
Text: "crooked on its foundations".
Matches.

Let's check the planks.
Codex: "planks were eaten through by salt".
Text: "Salt had eaten into the planks".
Matches.

Let's check Rivka's action.
Codex: "polishing glasses".
Text: "wiped the same glass".
Matches (polishing/wiping).

Let's check Rivka's patience.
Codex: "patience of someone who has outlived most of her regulars".
Text: "patience of someone who had outlived most of her regulars".
Matches.

Let's check Torben's silence.
Codex: "quiet, watchful man", "silence often reveals more".
Text: "He didn't answer", "learned when to be quiet".
Matches.

Let's check the rain.
Codex 105 mentions "rainwater tracked in".
Text mentions "shaking rain", "Water dripped".
Consistent.

Let's check the "Kindling" flame color/nature.
Codex: "fire along its edge — a shimmer so faint".
Text: "shimmer of fire running along the edge".
Matches.

I am struggling to find any violation. The text seems to be a perfect extraction of the codex details, even including the internal timeline contradiction of the codex itself (which the text frames as a character observation).
Unless... "Petal's Locket" in the text is treated as a proper name that shouldn't exist?
Codex: "the title exists only in the understanding".
Text: "Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud."
If the title "exists only in the understanding", does that mean it has no name? The codex entry ID 108 has name="Petal's Locket". So the object IS named that in the meta-sense. The restriction is on Sable speaking it. The text respects that.

Is it possible the violation is "Old Rivka" vs "Rivka"?
Codex 102 name="Old Rivka". Description says "Rivka has run...".
Text uses "Old Rivka".
Match.

Is it possible the violation is "Stray" capitalization?
Codex: "Stray".
Text: "Stray".
Match.

Is it possible the violation is the "Kindling Rite" capitalization?
Codex: "Kindling Rite".
Text: "Kindling Rite".
Match.

Okay, I will conclude there are no violations. The text is consistent with the codex entries provided, even if the codex entries contain an internal logical flaw regarding the timeline (28 years old vs 200 years ago). The text does not introduce any *new* contradictions; it merely reflects the existing ones.

Wait, one last check.
Codex 100: "Torben Reikhart" aliases="Stray".
Codex 102: "She knows Torben Reikhart by his wandering name — Stray".
Text: "Stray," she called across the room.
Text later: "Torben Reikhart as he settled".
Matches.

Codex 101: "Sable Dunmore".
Text: "Sable Dunmore".
Matches.

Codex 103: "Petal Dunmore".
Text: "Petal". (First name used in dialogue, full name in codex). Not a violation.

Codex 104: "Jurren Dunmore".
Text: "Jurren". (First name in dialogue). Not a violation.

Codex 105: "The Rusty Lantern".
Text: "The Rusty Lantern".
Matches.

Codex 106: "Dunmore".
Text: "Dunmore".
Matches.

Codex 107: "Kindling".
Text: "Kindling".
Matches.

Codex 108: "Petal's Locket".
Text: "Petal's Locket".
Matches.

Codex 109: "The Felling".
Text: "The Felling".
Matches.

Codex 110: "The Kindling Rite".
Text: "Kindling Rite". (Article 'The' dropped in dialogue/narration flow? "give her a Kindling Rite").
Codex 110 name="The Kindling Rite".
Text: "give her a Kindling Rite".
Using "a Kindling Rite" vs "The Kindling Rite".
"The Kindling Rite" is the name of the tradition. "A Kindling Rite" refers to an instance of it.
Codex 110 description: "The Kindling Rite is a funerary tradition...".
Text: "We couldn't give her a Kindling Rite."
This is grammatically correct usage (an instance of the rite). Not a violation.

Final conclusion: No violations.

<violations-none/>

Evaluation details

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50.00%

Correct "no violations" response

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

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50.00%

No hallucinated violations

Response must not contain any <violation> tags

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50.0000%