The houses do not move history. They move inside it, and what a house does in 1781 explains what a man does in 1888 without either of them altering a single canonical outcome.
The axis of the whole set is a symmetry. Two houses faced ruin at the same moment and answered in opposite ways. One spent a century buying influence and ended on the throne of the One. The other signed a pact over a debt and ended on the other side of the line.
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