The radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident covering the surrounding area was the cause of many abnormalities, including that of Alexei.
Kiev[]
This article page section is about Kiev in Sanctuary. For real-world location, see Wikipedia:Kiev.
Note: In Episode 1x01 - "Sanctuary for All, Part I", this scene was rewritten. It was no longer specifically mentioned to be set in Romania, occurred during the summer Ashley Magnus turned 18-years-old (year 2002), and the Romanian Lupus Wrangler was replaced with a group of a few nervous locals, one of which who "seriously looked like Adrien Brody".
Czech Republic[]
This article page section is about the Czech Republic in Sanctuary. For real-world location, see Wikipedia:Chechnya.
During a weapons sale, Ernie Watts askes Ashley Magnus if she was going to hunt vampires as he knows a guy in Prague who just received a shipment of holy water.
Grozny[]
This article page section is about Grozny in Sanctuary. For real-world location, see Wikipedia:Grozny.
During a lecture in Rome, Italy, Helen Magnus was interrupted by Nikola Tesla, who was being hunted by the Cabal. They fled into the catacombs underneath the city.
Naples[]
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Will Zimmerman is doubtful of the intention behind Nikola Tesla's distress signal that originates from rural Colombia. He postulates to Helen Magnus a hypothetical scenario that Tesla could instead be at a café in Paris.
While discussing the less-than-optimum conditions for having to perform a possible surgical operation on Bridget (a suspected host to a ferropodous) while in a back office of BMM Bank, Helen Magnus tells Will Zimmerman that at least here she doesn't have to deal with the mud and the rats like she did in the trenches at Verdun.
Helen Magnus's reference of being in trenches at Verdun indicates that she was medically involved in some way during the Battle of Verdun.
Carentan is a town in Normandy, France. The town was in fact liberated by Allied troops during the Normandy landings. However, the episodes depicting it were filmed on sets built in Canada.[20]
The Normandy region of northern France was the staging ground for the Allied invasion at the end of World War II. The small rural town of Carentan played an important role in these events, when the Five kept the Nazis from using a Tunisian fire elemental against the Allied invasion fleet.
On 8 October 2010, France was threatened by a time dilation field that was expanding from Carentan. The entire town was covered by the field, causing its inhabitants to experience the following days as hundreds of years. When agents of the Sanctuary Network were able to dissolve the field, everyone and everything born and created after the field appeared was phased out of existence.
Iceland[]
This article page section is about Iceland in Sanctuary. For real-world location, see Wikipedia:Iceland.
Munich, Germany was the intended location of a proposed getaway meeting between Helen Magnus and Olaf Von Ausburg. Her cover story for this trip was that she had to meet her UN security council liaison in Berlin and that it was time sensitive. Later on while stuck in a bore hole of an abandoned oil rig, Magnus made the mistake of accidentally saying the "weather in Munich is lovely this time of year" instead of Berlin when talking to Will Zimmerman.
Berlin[]
This article page section is about Berlin in Sanctuary. For real-world location, see Wikipedia:Berlin.
Munich, Germany was the intended location of a proposed getaway meeting between Helen Magnus and Olaf Von Ausburg. Her cover story for this trip was that she had to meet her UN security council liaison in Berlin and that it was time sensitive. Later on while stuck in a bore hole of an abandoned oil rig, Magnus made the mistake of accidentally saying the "weather in Munich is lovely this time of year" instead of Berlin when talking to Will Zimmerman.