Andrew Barton:
<<Where does this come from?>>
Fortunate Succession p83
<< The only published spells I know of (such as the Humakti divine spell) work on spoken words at the time they are spoken.>>
You could use Divination, though.
<<It's common ground in all the games my group runs, that detect truth spells
can only tell you whether the speaker -believes- what he is saying to be true.
If any other interpretation doesn't risk blowing the entire power balance of
your campaign, you players aren't as ingenious as ours are.>>
Replace 'speaker' with 'writer' and you have one of the four explanations offered by Dara Happan Truth cultists to explain the discrepancy. FWIW the other three are:
Failing all of this, the scholars will engage in a 'Truth Contest' to find out who's right. Presumably this a sort of magical scholastic duel, which sounds a cool idea to me.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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