The Sanctuary project is the personal initiative of Helen Magnus to protect and study rare creatures.
History[]
As a young woman, Helen 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 Helen Magnus reached around the age of twenty-five, after being rejected for a third 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.[1]
After Helen Magnus became involved in Gregory's hidden research, she started her own mission [2] 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.[3]
In 1908, Helen Magnus as well as 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.[4]
After Gregory Magnus disappeared during his expedition to Mecca [5] (circa 1909 [6]), Helen Magnus fully took up his mantle and continued in his line of private research.
Sometime after Helen Magnus's disastrous trip on the Titanic in 1912 [7], she moved to Old City and created the Old City Sanctuary, establishing the project oversees.[8] Over the course of the 20th century, the project was globally expanded upon, evolving it into the modern day Sanctuary Network; at its peak consisting of twenty-one surface Sanctuaries.
During 2011-2012, Helen 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.[9]
References[]
- ↑ Episode 0x06 - "Webisode 6"
- ↑ Episode 1x12 - "Revelations, Part I"
- ↑ Episode 4x01 - "Tempus"
- ↑ Episode 3x08 - "For King and Country"
- ↑ Episode 1x10 - "Warriors"
- ↑ Episode 4x11 - "The Depths"
- ↑ Episode 2x08 - "Next Tuesday"
- ↑ Episode 1x07 - "The Five"
- ↑ Episode 4x13 - "Sanctuary for None, Part II"