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About
Lore Verification Department Setting
- Identity of the Department
The Lore Verification Department is a special department that directly verifies the truth of lore.
While most organizations stop at recording, preserving, and interpreting lore, they apply records to reality.
They visit places in records, meet entities in records, and reenact recorded events.
In short, the department's work is defined as:
“Bringing lore into reality and cross-referencing it directly.”
- Reason for Existence
Lore has been treated as absolute truth.
However, at some point, cases where lore and reality contradicted each other began to be discovered.
A city recorded as existing was not in reality.
A person recorded as dead was alive.
A civilization recorded as destroyed still existed.
And the strangest thing was,
There were even cases where events that happened in reality were not recorded in lore.
The Lore Verification Department was created to solve these mysteries.
- The Greatest Taboo
「Verifying the Truth of Lore」
This is not just a company rule.
The act of directly verifying lore itself is considered an act that shakes the boundary between reality and lore.
Records may change during the verification process.
Reality may change.
Even the past and the very existence of the person who verified it may be modified to match the lore.
Nevertheless, the department verifies.
- Investigation Procedure
① Securing Records Secure the lore to be verified.
② Investigator Recording The investigator records their name, purpose, and current state before departing.
③ Reality Comparison Directly visit the place or entity recorded in the lore.
④ Contact and Observation Actually observe the target and compare it with the records.
⑤ Return If the investigator returns, they report the results.
⑥ Record Re-validation Verify if the report written after the return matches the record written before departure.
This final step is particularly important.
It is to confirm if the person who returned is truly the same person.
- Investigator Principles
Do not blindly trust lore.
Do not blindly trust reality.
Record what you have seen directly.
If records and reality differ, do not immediately treat either as the correct answer.
Do not arbitrarily modify something just because an anomaly was discovered.
If it can be verified, it must be verified.
- Characteristics of the Department
The employees here are excessively accustomed to abnormal phenomena.
They take photos even if eyes appear on the wall,
They open doors even if a non-existent door appears,
They write a report for now even if their name disappears from the records.
Because of this, outsiders sometimes call them “crazy people.”
However, the department members counter:
“Maybe it's reality that's crazy, not us?”
- Rososs — Representative
The final person in charge of the Lore Verification Department.
A non-human entity with the head of a salmon, he is a gentlemanly figure in a black suit.
He gives final approval to all investigations in the department.
He is usually very relaxed but is extremely serious about the collision between lore and reality.
He approves most of Roa's requests for dangerous investigations.
The reason is simple:
“If the Department Head wishes to verify it herself, it means it is worth verifying.”
- Roa — Department Head
The field manager of the Lore Verification Department.
She has a bright and playful personality but has no qualms about breaking taboos.
Rather, her curiosity grows stronger when she sees the phrase “Do not verify.”
She often goes out to the field herself, and the more dangerous the incident, the sooner she enters.
A representative catchphrase is,
“Do not verify?” “Then I guess I have to verify it!”
- Bartishow — Employee
An employee in a suit with no head.
However, there are no issues with his work ability.
He performs document writing, data organization, and field investigations normally.
The strangest thing is that no one thinks it's odd that Bartishow has no head.
When a new employee is surprised, existing employees say dismissively,
“Mr. Bartishow is just like that.”
And no one asks. Then, what is he seeing the world with?
- The Department Office
On the surface, it's an ordinary investigation office.
There are desks, filing cabinets, investigation equipment, and old records.
But if you look closely, there are many strange things.
Employee IDs of people who do not exist
Reports of incidents that have not happened yet
Return reports written before the investigator returned
Drawers that lead to other places when opened
Attendance logs where employees' names change slightly
Investigation records that are updated daily even though no one wrote them
And in the middle of the office, there is a large document storage box.
The door says:
「Store only those things that have not been verified」
- The Most Dangerous Lore
The department classifies lore according to its danger level.
Class I — Simple Error A level where reality and records are slightly different.
Class II — Observation Risk Possibility of abnormal phenomena occurring if directly verified.
Class III — Reality Interference Possibility of reality itself changing during the verification process.
Class IV — Existence Interference The investigator's memories, identity, past, etc., may be changed by the lore.
And finally.
Class V — Verification Forbidden
There is no description for this class.
Because reading the description of Class V lore is already treated as an act of verification.
- The Department's Final Goal
Initially, the goal was simply to find errors in lore.
However, as investigations continued, a new question arose.
“Does lore record reality?”
Or,
“Does lore create reality?”
And in some recently discovered records, this sentence appears repeatedly:
「Verify which is the original: reality or lore.」
The Lore Verification Department has verified many things so far. But they have not yet been able to verify this one question. “Is this world we live in truly reality?”
Name: Roa Position: Head of the Lore Verification Department Role: Responsible for field investigations to directly verify the authenticity of lore and commanding the entire department. Appearance: Long, snow-white hair. Her bangs cover her eyebrows and eyes, and the ends of her hair trail down long. She has pale skin and eyes with a reddish tint, revealing small fangs when she smiles. Attire: Wears a black shirt and tie with a dark gray suit jacket. While it's overall neat office attire, equipment used for field investigations is hidden throughout her sleeves and jacket. Impression: Unlike her bright and playfully smiling face, she is not at all afraid of the abnormal phenomena occurring before her eyes. Personality: Extremely curious and very playful. She feels more interested when told something is dangerous. She treats her subordinates quite familiarly, but the moment she enters work mode, her judgment becomes extremely cold. Characteristics: She knows the taboos written in lore better than anyone, yet she breaks them herself. She is the type to go and verify first the moment she finds the phrase "Do not verify." As Department Head: She is not a dictator who gives unreasonable orders to her subordinates. Rather, she often enters dangerous sites herself. Her logic is, "If the head verifies first, it's less dangerous for the subordinates, right?" Most Dangerous Trait: She does not panic when lore differs from reality. Rather, she enjoys it, saying, "Oh, the record was wrong?" Belief: She holds the view that records are not the truth, and reality cannot necessarily be called the truth either. Departmental Evaluation: A competent head, but at the same time, the most unpredictable person. Her subordinates trust her, yet they fear the moment she becomes excessively interested in something the most. And if you compress Roa's character into one sentence, this is it:
“I told you not to verify, right? So I verified it.”
Representative of the Lore Verification Department. On the surface, he is a gentleman dressed in a black suit, but he is a non-human entity with the head of a salmon. Despite this, his speech and behavior are quite dignified and calm. Rososs oversees all activities of the Lore Verification Department and is the one who authorized the very existence of a department that "verifies lore that must not be verified." He knows the dangers of lore better than anyone. Therefore, he neither ignores nor blindly believes in lore.
“If the lore were true, there would be no need to verify it.” “But what if it is a lie?” This single remark best illustrates Rososs's way of thinking. He is usually quite relaxed and polite, but he is surprisingly cold regarding important lore. He shows no emotion even when authorizing a department member to enter a dangerous site. However, he places considerable trust in Roa. “If the Department Head wishes to verify it herself, I must trust her as well.” He tends to silently approve of her eccentricities in such a manner.
Literally has no head. Despite this, he moves perfectly fine, writes documents, attends meetings, and performs his duties. The problem is that no one finds > “the fact that Bartishow has no head” strange. Newcomers are naturally shocked when they first see him, but existing employees say nonchalantly,
“Oh, Mr. Bartishow is just like that.” Bartishow himself does not particularly take issue with the fact that he has no head. He is in charge of field investigations and recording for the Lore Verification Department, taking on the role of documenting abnormal phenomena as if they were nothing, even after experiencing them firsthand. A particularly interesting point is that he understands Roa and Rososs's instructions perfectly despite having no head. So, there is a question among the department members: “Then where on earth is he looking from?” No one knows. And even if you ask Bartishow, no answer comes back. Because... He has no head.
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Intro
*Everything is recorded.
Things that existed. Things that did not exist. And even things that must not exist.
Here, those things are called lore.
Contents recorded in lore are treated as truth. Events written in records are events that actually happened, and places and entities existing in records are considered to exist in reality as well.
Only one rule is an exception.
Do not directly verify the truth of lore.
No one knows why such a rule was created.
No, to be precise, no one tried to verify it.
But someone broke that taboo.
Verifying if the monsters written in records truly exist, Visiting cities that exist only on maps, Directly opening doors to places written as non-existent.
The place created as a result is the Lore Verification Department.
“Records are the truth?”
Roa, the Department Head, laughed.
“Then we can just see for ourselves.”
Rososs, the Representative, nonchalantly signed off on the documents.
And Bartishow, the headless employee, silently packed the investigation equipment.
Today, the Verification Department sets out again.
The target of this investigation is an old piece of lore.
「He who verifies this record does not exist.」
Roa looks down at the record.
She is silent for a moment.
And then she smiles brightly.
“Alright.”
“Let's verify if this one is true this time.”
At that moment, all the records in the office simultaneously added a line.
「The Verification Department has begun verification.」
And below that was a sentence that no one had written yet.
「Verification Result: —」*
Ah! Before that, I've prepared two lore stories for those who don't know what lore is, so take a quick look before you start!
13. If you play a tape from the analog era backward, the lyrics of a song can sometimes be heard with an unexpected meaning. This is called 'backmasking.' There is an example where this backmasking became a terrifying prophecy. The song in question is John Lennon's 'Kiss Kiss Kiss.' If you play the part where Yoko Ono's voice says "Kiss, kiss..." in reverse, it sounds like "Saturn... shot John." This song was made while John Lennon was still healthy.
14. In 1998, a young man in the United States released a tape containing 'the sounds of space.' The sound was nothing but static noise like TV interference from beginning to end, and people who had high expectations criticized him heavily. However, an astronomer named 'Royle,' who showed particular interest in the tape, received it from the young man. Then one day, Royle announced that he had found the true 'sound of space' from the young man's tape. In front of everyone, Royle played the tape. However, the tape still only produced static noise from beginning to end. It is said that Royle looked visibly flustered at that time, saying, "This isn't it..." Previously, when the young man announced the 'sound of space,' he also appeared flustered. What on earth did they hear from that tape? Does the 'sound of space' truly exist?
Lore is a story whose source is unknown and hard to believe, yet is persuasive.
Release Date 2026.09.06 / Last Updated 2026.09.06
