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* [[Forgotten Realms]] has a lot of this.
** The "best" case, of course, is Volothamp Geddarm and his "[[Fictional Document|guides]]" that canonically combine dangerously clever investigations and silly hearsay.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20200314182536/http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/archfr/mc%2Farchfr%2Fmc Mintiper's Chapbook] is a Realmslore ''textbook on'' Unreliable Exposition: it consists of short excerpts from verses or tales by [[The Bard|Mintiper Moonsilver]], long comments by knowledgeable Keeper of the Vault about events in which Mintiper's "or his source's" alias participated and... even longer Chronicler’s Footnotes that explain how some or other Keeper's notions above are flawed due to his bias toward Silverymoon history and realities and unwarranted scepticism regarding [[Seen It All|the breadth of Mintiper's adventures]].
** The history of [http://www.candlekeep.com/fr_faq.htm#_Toc16090515 High Moor]. One pissed-off druid in Elminster's Ecology assumes it to be the result of typical human deforestation. It's the result of a [[Fantastic Nuke|Killing Storm]]. [[Entertainingly Wrong|He just assumed based on what he saw and knows,]] and probably never saw a single elf capable ''or'' willing to do this, nor would know, since elves aren't eager to tell anyone else about [[Horrible Histories|less glamorous moments of their past]].
** Also, a [https://web.archive.org/web/20161101073508/http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rl/20050608a%2Frl%2F20050608a two]-[https://web.archive.org/web/20161101073729/http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rl/20050615a%2Frl%2F20050615a part] article named simply "Trusting in Lore".
 
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