SANJIESAN LORE / Unreliable accounts
A rumour belongs beside the fact, not inside it
A character’s account may be convincing enough that a summary accidentally treats it as confirmed world history. Keep the claim and its speaker attached. In an original setting, the author can leave the truth undecided or hidden, while still preventing a rumour from silently becoming an unqualified setting fact.
Record the claim with its source
Take a fictional statement such as the old tower has been empty for years. Record who says it, where it appears and whether the character claims personal knowledge. World Anvil’s article-linking feature can connect a term to a record, but a link alone does not establish the linked claim as true. Use a short status label such as character report, author decision or unresolved, with the meaning explained in your own working notes.
Compare accounts without flattening them
Place another account beside it, perhaps a caretaker who remembers a recent visitor. Identify whether the accounts really conflict or describe different times and parts of the tower. Do not choose the longest paragraph as the truth by default. Keep a deliberate lie, incomplete memory and ordinary mistake distinct where the draft establishes the difference. The reader may remain uncertain while the author’s working record says precisely which uncertainty is intentional.
Check the summary that others will reuse
Read the location summary and any map caption that repeats the rumour. Preserve attribution or replace it with a narrower statement supported by the author’s decision. Keep the scene citation so another writer can see the original context. When working from approved canon, do not promote an ambiguous line into a new official event. A useful setting entry can contain several viewpoints without pretending the article has solved a mystery that the story leaves open.