[Swordmaker]

He said it was smooth like glass and warm. This has nothing to do with a lighthouse, he either saw what he said, or he didn't.

Or he lied...

[Quix]

Welllllll, if you believe he was lying,

I think you have not interviewed many people

and/or

you are so skeptical that it wouldn't matter how accurate your personality etc. assessment skills were.

I found him exceedingly believable. I found it highly unlikely he was even consciously or unconsciously distorting things very significantly and far to ridiculous that he would be lying.