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Eleanor
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Oct 31, 2023 · Dark Haven: Directed by Pradeep Paga. With Emily Coupe, Aric Diamani, Clark Lichty. Trapped inside an abandoned building by an unimaginable horror, young Eleanor is desperate to survive. But she quickly discovers she is not alone.
- Pradeep Paga
- 2023-10-31
- Horror, Thriller
- Emily Coupe, Aric Diamani, Clark Lichty
Dark Haven (2023) - Movie | Moviefone. Movie. NR Oct 31st, 2023 Thriller, Horror. Trapped inside an abandoned building by an unimaginable horror, young Eleanor is desperate to survive. But she...
- Pradeep Paga
- Emily Coupe, Aric Diamani
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Dark Haven is an Imperial Knight World of the Segmentum Obscurus, mostly famed for being the ancestral home of House Orhlacc. A shadowed, twilight world circling its pale blue-white star at the very edge of its habitable zone, it constitutes an exception amongst the otherwise lifeless regions of the Cyclops Cluster, located in the northern Imperium in the Segmentum Obscurus, which quickly made it a priority target for Human colonisation that was implemented as early as the 25th Millennium.
The planet was covered in a world-spanning forest of vast fungal and pseudo-coral growths which swallowed up every iota of light, casting the grey earth beneath them into deep shadow and even shrouding its cold seas into sunless deeps. Aggressive and fast-growing, the living web that covered Dark Haven was nevertheless organic, and therefore a precious resource to be used and harvested, although the planet's great toxicity for many years prevented this.
This was a world of considerable hazard, as the planet presented its own predators in the shape of hulking ambulatory mycolidae and less well-understood fauna deep within its shadowed depths. During the time of Old Night, the Knight House of Orhlacc, originally of the Lucien Sector, rose to rule Dark Haven as its own. Orhlacc, previously a minor Household, flourished over the decades of its stewardship of Dark Haven before the coming of the Great Crusade in the 30th Millennium.
After the Knight World was restored to the Imperium, its valuable harvest, along with certain exotic chemical compounds, were cultivated for export by legions of servitor-arachnid automata, creating a wealth which further increased the power and independence of this world.
During the Dark Age of Technology, the lonely, shadowed world that would come to be known as Dark Haven was discovered deep within a mineral rich but otherwise barren region of the void. In order to exploit and colonise this region for Humanity, it had been selected to become a Knight World. And so the House of Orhlacc first came into being, and its domain known, for reasons of literal truth as well as poetic observation, as Dark Haven.
It was founded during the latter part of Humanity's first expansion across the stars during the Age of Technology; its founding ark's journey is recorded as originating from what is now known as the Forge World of Lucius. This place was indeed almost supra-abundant in life, but within solar days of the colonising ark's planetfall, a terrible truth had been discovered; the fruits of this benighted world were inimically poisonous to man.
The shadowed world was at the very edge of its aged star's habitable zone, and life there had flourished millions of standard years before it ever had on distant Terra. Here the dominant form of that life was akin to fungi, but infinitely more varied and complex than that of most worlds, forming a planet-spanning web of life. Its patterns varied, from towering pseudo-coral-like structures kilometres high, comprising billions of microscopic creatures, which overshadowed the land and covered the seas, stealing the light, to colossal, ambulatory predators whose venom could sear ceramite and eat through plasteel. All of it was to Humanity virulently and fatally toxic when consumed, even given the most stringent methods available for its processing. Dark Haven was a Death World, misjudged as a paradise of life.
Undeterred, the Human colonisation went ahead; keeps were built into the few jutting mountain ranges which fought to clear the vast living canopy, attempts were made to clear-cut for settlements and introduce off-world agriculture, supplies were rationed, and additional Magi Biologis (this is used here as a term of convenience based on current Imperial terminology, shrouded as the truth of such things are by time) brought in to attempt to address the difficulties with the certain hope of an eventual solution to the planet's toxicity.
During Dark Haven's founding solar decades, progress was slow, and life for the settlers a continuous struggle for survival, but one which they held at bay, at least until the coming of the Age of Strife. With exterior contact and the chance of resupply lost, Dark Haven should have been doomed. As things were, matters rapidly worsened for the dozen Knight Households and their retainers who had made it their cause to dominate the strange world.
Soon famine was the enemy, as stockpiled supplies dwindled or became mysteriously tainted. As if sensing the Humans' weakness, the planetary ecology itself seemed to turn on them in a violent spurt of aggressive growth unprecedented in its suddenness or speed, and whole settlements were choked and overrun in a matter of solar hours by berserk fungal growth, their inhabitants slain by ravaging predators or consumed from within by parasitic life.
•The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 62-63, 66-67, 122-129
Overview. Trapped inside an abandoned building by an unimaginable horror, young Eleanor is desperate to survive. But she quickly discovers she is not alone. A dark, brooding Stranger demands that Eleanor leave his hard-won sanctuary.
Dark Haven. 2023. Horror/Thriller. Cast. Emily Coupe (Eleanor) Aric Diamani (Stranger) Clark Lichty (New guy) Director. Pradeep Paga. Synopsis. Trapped inside an abandoned building by an...
A brooding stranger demands that she leave his hard-won sanctuary, but Eleanor cajoles him into playing emotionally brutal games for the limited resources. Outside their dark haven, a...
- Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Oct 31, 2014 · A second trailer for upcoming TV pilot Dark Haven, from creator Elanor Miller and director Craig MacLachlan. Music and lyrics by John Taylor.
