My character runs into the aftermath of a fight. Houses are burning, things look grim. Flash forward to some point in the future: everything is still burning, despite the rain, despite the fact fire tends to consume wood. Same thing with campfires.
My character gets into the woods and kills a surprising number of people who really do not get along at all with my character. He goes and has a bit of a conversation with somebody who really needed a sharp implement in the gut, only to find that the area which was just cleared, has magically been repopulated. It is not a bad thing to have enemies respawning over time, but have a bit of patience...
Red lyrium is really, really bad. So our hero collects it and uses it by the bucket load in runes. Why is he not going stark raving mad?
Sometimes, people end up as tree decorations with a noose around their neck. Lovely for the spectators, perhaps not so great for the decorations. However, oddly enough, without tissue, skeletons tend to fall apart. So why is it that they keep hanging?
There is a church lady very busy with the burning of corpses... Except the number of corpses never dwindles in the slightest.
Our gallant hero runs into a guy wielding an impossible large hammer. Sometime later, the guy with the hammer transforms into loot. What does our gallant hero find on this hammer guy? A hammer perhaps? Nope. A mage's staff. Or a dagger. Or a shield the size of a dinner table. Would it perhaps be possible to make loot make sense?
Speaking of loot... Who would have thought that 5 centuries ago, dwarves already had the latest inquisition tech. Poor farmers keep swords in their chests and large purses with enough coin to ransom a dragon.
And my personal favourite as a Dutchman: a damn which can flood both sides. For the record: that does not work. No, really, it doesn't. You see, no matter how you go about it, a damn can only ever stop water going down. Once that water is past the damn, it cannot go back up. If you have a damn in the middle of the lake and somehow empty one side, opening the flood gates will only ever result in both sides reaching equal depths. You cannot empty one side completely.
I am sure there are many more examples, but I think you get the point: use logic. Use common sense.
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