Thoughts on Haven: By and large, Haven and the troubles have always had a sort of very earthy hands on feel to them. Troubles based on curses, mythic lore, sympathetic magic, etc. It's almost a sort of supernatural aesthetic, I guess? Everything centers on a magic barn. But then BAM, the inside of the barn is Fringe-y, sci-fi, right out of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Very dramatic shift, I thought.
hmmmm. I haven’t thought about it in a long time, it just got incorporated into the mythology and i forgot how weird that was, but yeah, I remember when that happened it was really weird.
Maybe because the troubles were a hands on kind of creation, like, Mara had to literally lay hands on somebody to trouble them. William called creating troubles more an art then a science.
The barn is some kind of construct or complex technology. It doesn’t really function the way the troubles do at all. And howard spoke with such certainty about it and how it worked and what it would do.
Nothing in the troubles ever really work the way it’s expected to, troubles split and mutate, and it seems like william and mara couldn’t always quite control the way a trouble would manifest. I think the troubles are more dependent on the world around them and the people they are attached to, while the barn is an independent construct that imposes it’s power over the world uniformly.
