Sanctuary project

The  is the personal initiative of Dr. Helen Magnus to protect and study rare creatures.

History
As a young woman, Magnus was introduced to the strange and fascinating world of "abnormals" by her father Gregory Magnus. Gregory's curiosity and persistent drive to unlock scientific secrets dominated his research of exploring the unknown. Across many travels, he brought back with him not only knowledge and items, but also creatures which he kept in his lab that he had secretly built in the basement of his London home. When Magnus reached around the age of 25, after being rejected for a 3rd time by the Royal College, she pleaded with her father to allow her into his secrets and to help her reach her full potential as a medical professional. At her insistence, he cautiously brought her on board.

After Magnus became involved in Gregory's hidden research, she started her own mission of not only just collecting and studying abnormals, but also becoming a voluntary sanctuary for them, offering them protection from the public who were hunting them; an example of this is when she helped hide Spring-heeled Jack in 1898.

After Gregory disappeared during his expedition to Mecca (circa 1907 ), Magnus fully took up his mantle and continued in his line of private research. In 1908, Magnus as well as Dr. James Watson who aided her, accepted a bounty contract to stop Adam Worth. As a reward for doing so, Magnus's "Sanctuary" received full support and funding from the British Government.

Sometime after Magnus's disastrous trip on the Titanic in 1912, she moved to Old City and created the Old City Sanctuary, establishing the project oversees. Over the course of the 20th century, the Project was globally expanded upon, evolving it into the modern day Sanctuary Network; at it's peak consisting of 20 surface Sanctuaries.

During 2011-2012, Magnus decided to return the Sanctuary project to being more of a singular consolidated venture, centralizing it down to reside primarily in the new Underground Sanctuary with only two smaller surface satellite Sanctuaries still operational, New York and London.