Bayonetta Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-26 · 30 entries checked · 25 flagged · 47 issues confirmed · 25 corrected · 22 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Balder — Intro incorrectly claims Balder was sealed away after Maria's death; canon states he survived the War of the Cross, went into hiding, and infiltrated the Witch Hunters.

Balder — Intro incorrectly implies Balder believes Maria is trapped alive in another realm; canon confirms he knows she died and seeks to open Paradiso to reach the afterlife/God for reunion.

Luka — The entry states Luka's backstory regarding his father and upbringing is revealed in Chapter 4 ('The Devil You Know'). In the original Bayonetta (2009), this revelation occurs in Chapter 5: 'The Devil Within', not Chapter 4.

Luka — The entry claims Luka was trained from a young age to serve as a priest. Canonically, while raised by the Order of the Holy See, Luka was specifically groomed to be an Inquisitor (a hunter), not a priest.

Bayonetta — Claim that Bayonetta is an 'exiled member' of the Umbra Witches contradicts canon; she is the last surviving member who was sealed away during the Witch Hunts, not exiled by her clan.

Bayonetta — Statement that weapons are summoned from hair via a gateway to the Infernal Realm to call forth armaments is inaccurate; while demons are summoned through contracts using hair as a gateway to Inferno, her guns (armaments) are physical manifestations formed dir

Lumen Sages — The entry incorrectly places the War of the Cross 500 years prior to Bayonetta's birth; canon establishes the war culminated around her birth/childhood (approx. 1499), roughly 500 years before the game's present day.

Lumen Sages — The entry incorrectly states Father Balder died during the War of the Cross; he survived that conflict and was defeated in modern times during Bayonetta 1.

Witch Hunters — The entry incorrectly identifies the Great War as a conflict between Witches and Angels; canonically, it was primarily fought between Umbra Witches (and their allies, the Lumen Sages) against the Church of St. Aurea and Humanity, with Angels intervening only a

Lumen Order — Luka Redgrave is not the son of Balder and Rosa; Bayonetta (Cereza) is their daughter, while Luka is a human archaeologist with no blood relation to them.

Eidolons — The entry incorrectly implies Lumen Sages do not wield Light-based weaponry (e.g., Sunlight Swords), whereas canonically they utilize such weapons.

Eidolons — The claim that Lumen Sages often work in tandem with Angels is inaccurate; they are distinct factions guarding the World of Men, while Angels guard Heaven.

The Great War — There is no canon evidence that Angels or Demons magically suppressed memories; historical obscurity resulted from time and exile, and Bayonetta's amnesia was caused by her self-sealing for 500 years.

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