#i also believe this is why palamedes and the sixth are seen as weirdos. why are they trying to make life BETTER.

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it is PLOT-RELEVANT that House society has stagnated for ten thousand years!! it's not just that muir picked a giant number and forgot to account for the ways society would change in that massive span of time. there's a POINT there about how founding your entire culture on death means that the only innovation happening is around how to necromance better. and even then the whole society still tries to emulate a past they don't know or understand. you could blame Jod for repressing progress but honestly I think the point stands just as well if Jod isn't directly doing anything to stifle growth aside from FOUNDING A DEATH CULT. they still have MUMPS for god's sake