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** Similarly, many characters appear to view being a true chivalric knight to be a sign of following the [[Good Old Ways]], Rhaegar Targayren and Barristan Selmy other examples of this trope. (Eddard Stark, while he is as fiercely honorable as any "true" knight, worships the Old Gods, and is therefore not a Ser, as knights are anointed by a Septon, a cleric of The Faith of the Seven.)
** That being said, there are some old ways that even traditionalists have attempted to toss out. The Starks, for example, have attempted to outlaw the right of first night (i.e. the right of a lord to bed a woman any smallfolk or bannerman of his wants to marry), but according to {{spoiler|Roose Bolton, it is still practiced, by the Boltons and even the Umbers, who are staunch allies of the Starks when the lord is strong}}.
* In Brian Jacques's ''[[Redwall]]'', [[Impoverished Patrician]] Squire Julian of Gingivere disdains his ramshackle estate and [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|repels Matthias's sympathy]] because he knows nothing of loneliness or trying to preserve standards.
* [[William Shakespeare]], in "Sonnet 68", laments how things have declined: they didn't use to [[Due to The Dead|rob corpses of their hair for wigs]].
* In "Scott-King's Modern Europe" by [[Evelyn Waugh]], Scott-King refuses even to consider teaching anything but classics, even though that may mean he will be out of a job.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)|Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', most of the tribes rely on old-fashioned melee weapons and shamanism, often frowning upon the [[Post
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by that the old-fashioned weapons and spirit magic works just as well as the [[Post
*** Unfortunately, this also leads to one of the biggest examples of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: The two tribes who were supposedly the champions of the Wyld, the spirit and force of change, were the most static and rigid, to the point where one of them was frozen in place, an evolutionary dead end, doomed to extinction ''by their own choice and statement''. The two tribes supposedly most in thrall to the Weaver, the force of stasis, were the most adaptive and flexible.
* In addition to the literary entries above, the Imperium of Man from [[Warhammer 40000]] is generally reluctant to improve on its millenia-old technologies, let alone adopt those from other alien races. They seem to have culturally dead-ended themselves as well, as their quasi-state religion primarily revolves around the worship of their half-dead, demi-god Emperor.
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