The ultimate Dark Hour experience! The Dark Hour VIP Experience begins with brief a meet and greet with your personal VIP Experience guide. Next, you enter the show - bypassing the queue line. Then, you relax in the exclusive Dark Hour VIP suite for a special screening of The Making of Dark Hour video while enjoying snacks and refreshments. Meanwhile, your guide will be available for a Q&A session. Next, enjoy a second trip through the haunt again bypassing the queue line! End the evening with your choice of Dark Hour t-shirt, a magnet, and a bumper sticker.
The world’s most infamous witches have allied with Simone Noire; recurrent leader of the Dark Hour coven. The malevolent acts of this unholy alliance craft insane horrors as part of a mysterious plot to bring about eternal darkness. If the Dark Hour Coven succeeds, humanity will forever suffer the depravity and vicious intentions of creatures that prey from the shadows and in the night.
In the early 19th Century, the centuries old Noire witches and their coven fled France. Escalating persecution, emboldened by the Industrial Revolution, threatened their survival and long-term plans. The hags chose the lands of Basse-Louisiane (Lower Louisiana) as their center of power. Louisiana had insects and rodents to spread disease, large reptiles for use as familiars and agents, readily available servants and acolytes, privacy, and unrestricted travel via swamp, river, and port.
In the spring of 1803, they purchased a plantation plot. In France, they fell into hiding while planning their relocation. While the coven celebrated Walpurgisnacht, work began on the sprawling house that would come to be known as Coven Manor.
The manor was luxurious, with plenty of room for the coven’s growing numbers. As it was built to the conflicting desires and needs of the schismatic sisters in the coven, it features twisting hallways and seemingly random architecture. The plantation boasts one of the largest private cemeteries in Louisiana, which sprawls before the house, inundating the maze-like structure with the smell of rot. The solarium of the manor became a poisonous greenhouse, where the witches cultivated ingredients for their craft and experimented with the local flora. The servants’ quarters, located away from the manor, were built indiscriminately and with neglect. There, the Fon servants practiced their dark, Voodoo arts.
The Voodoo leaders rose against the hags’ evil, turning their servants against them. This rebellion has lasted for centuries, with the descendants of the Fon using their powers to thwart the witches’ plans. Neither the Voodoo warriors nor the witches are to be trusted, as they will crush anyone that comes between them in their feud.
For over a century, Coven Manor thrived. The coven persevered. They endured persecution from religious groups, and native tribes rising up to destroy them. The crones’ evil managed to swell and spread. The entropy and corruption created by the ravages of the Civil War lent the coven power. Their dark power grew and crawled through the swamps of Louisianna for over one hundred years. However, a cleansing fire swept through the nest of crones late in the 1950’s; all but destroying the Dark Hour Coven.
Their twisted home remained–mostly–intact. The manor has been repurposed over the years. It was converted to an inn. It was once a school for girls. It was a sanatorium. It served as a factory in time of war. All were ill-fated endeavors.
The witches will not be stopped. Through their dark arts, they rise from the shadows, time and again. Some tragic fate befalls the occupants of the repurposed manor, and the Dark Hour coven establishes its hold over the swamps once again.
The leadership of the coven changes almost as often as the ownership of the manor. Each witch, with the specialties she has cultivated through centuries, fights to be dominant. Each of them believe their way is the best path to bringing about the Dark Hour. Thirteen witches are allied through the coven. When a leader is supplanted or struck down, another rises to take her place; leaving no end of fresh hells and gruesome evils. No matter who leads the coven, they are all committed to the same twisted goal.
From Coven Manor, they manipulate the world, to bring about the fell time when the coven will forever reign from the shadows…
...the Dark Hour.