Amelia > Status Update

What is with old folk tales and giving children cursed boxes that they are forbad (forbidden?) to open?? My guy lived in a palace for three days (treat for a good deed) and went home only to realize it had been 300 years so he decides to open a box that someone told him not to open and it kills him! This dude lost everyone he knew and disobeyed ONE TIME and was killed off. I would have done the same thing wtf