Conflicting Race Origins
Aurelion's world bible preserves more than one answer to several origin questions. Orcs, goblins, miaurises, molefolk and dark elves expose a fault line between older etiological stories and the later Great Cycle taxonomy.
When Origins Refuse to Agree
The contradictions in Aurelion's race origins are broader than a single dispute over orcs and goblins. An earlier origin block explains peoples through mythic descent, historical catastrophe and visible resemblance. A later classification instead asks how Body, Time, Memory, Function and Will operate inside each people. The two layers often point in the same direction, but they do not always describe the same mechanism. Treating one as a clean paraphrase of the other would erase information the source still contains.
Orcs are the clearest example. The early account calls them children of distorted energy from broken dwarven machines. The later ontology calls them undead: living bodies whose Time has been replaced by a surrogate of war, a dwarven core and repetitive violence. Those statements preserve a machine origin but disagree about whether the people are born from released energy or are human bodies transformed by implanted mechanical continuity. Goblins diverge more sharply. They first appear as small, prolific 'sparks of catastrophe' beside orcs; later they are classified as living mutants produced by the Golden Curse, their Body and Memory poisoned by gold rather than by a dwarven-machine accident.
Miaurises and molefolk carry similar fractures inside human history. One early line makes miaurises humans distorted by the Blue Plague; the later ontology describes them as biological children of humans living amid concentrations of fairies, with only partial mutation. Molefolk are first said to have been created in the human era, perhaps by druids or the Red Kings, as a 'people of the earth'; later they are simply underground humans reshaped by environmental isolation. Dark elves also change category: the early origin story presents exiles driven into subterranean rivers and caves, while the later Great Cycle model makes them an elven culture that ritually stopped its own Time, preserving Memory and Function at the cost of a future.
The Codex does not invent a reconciliation. Some differences may eventually prove to be the gap between popular ancestry stories and metaphysical taxonomy; others may be genuine revisions in the world bible. The source never supplies a universal rule that resolves them. For operational entries, the later Cycle classification is used where it gives explicit fields, while the earlier origin versions remain preserved as conflicting testimony rather than silently deleted.
