Welcome

[Helen Magnus]

Sanctuary
For Beginners

Right now if you have never seen the show on Syfy you may be weary about joining the site for fear you don't understand the plots and characters. Fear not this site was made for both Sanctuary fans, newcomers, and people who have never heard of the show before. Just as a little aid I am going to make this little guide through the Sanctuary world and where you can fit in as someone who has never watched the show. If by the end of this you are still unsure about joining or how to go about making a character please feel free to PM me or catch me in the c box. Also asking members who do watch the show is helpful. I am always happy to take someone under my wing and give them walkthroughs and make this site enjoyable for both the fans and newcomers alike. Likewise never feel afraid to treat this like an original and start your own things, your own plots, your own little character groups. The Sanctuary world is always open to so many new things, abnormals, villains, hero's. Abnormal creatures are infinite and with the right amount of explanation you can come up with completely original characters and abnormal species for them to run into. Welcome to the Sanctuary and have fun.

~Helen Magnus

Helpful Links
Sanctuary Wikia
All things you need to know about Sanctuary.

Wikipedia
Basic outline of the show and characters.

Syfy Sanctuary page
You can get more information about the show, plot line, and characters here even with a chance to watch some episodes for free.

[Helen Magnus]

Brief History
The Sanctuary was built long ago by Helen Magnus and her father to give a safe haven to the various cryptids, legends, and abnormal animals/people with certain extraordinary powers and abilities – what most people would consider monsters. She runs the Sanctuary with her daughter Ashley, her assistant William Zimmerman, Henry Foss a werewolf, and later Kate a wayward girl who helped the Cabal.

Season One:
"The Cabal", a powerful shadow organization that captures, studies, and experiments on Abnormals, in the belief that the Abnormal population is a threat to the human species. they test a small amount of a biological weapon named Lazarus that causes all types of Abnormals to become extremely violent, attacking anyone nearby and then dying painfully. This is part of The Cabal's overall plan to incite humanity against the Abnormals so that they can wipe out the entire Abnormal population and gain greater influence over humanity. They brainwash Ashley, and in season two, convert her into a vampiric supersoldier, using her as a template for a small army which attacks the Sanctuary network. Against all odds, Magnus and her teams stop them at the Old City Sanctuary, and Ashley, in a moment of clarity, apparently sacrifices herself. Her father, Druitt, hunts down and kills the heads of the Cabal, which seems to disband.

Season Two:
They also deal with their relationships to the remaining members of the Five, and increased international coordination in the wake of the Cabal's attacks on the Global Sanctuary Network that Magnus had established. It emerges that an enormous marine Abnormal, Big Bertha, had been preserved rather than euthanized by Magnus, and that Bertha is, somehow, a sapient being named Kali existing on a psychic or spirit plane, intricately tied to nature and Abnormals around the world. At the end of the second season and beginning of the third, a man named Edward Forsythe tries to take control of Bertha, and NY Sanctuary House Head Terrence Wexford goes rogue trying to destroy her – he even attempts to depose and kill Helen.

Season Three:
Ultimately, Bertha/Kali is saved and Wexford is ousted, but more questions are raised than answered: Will visits the spirit plane via induced cardiac arrest, and while there he sees two other powerful beings in addition to Kali; encounters Helen's father, who gives Will a message for her; and then spontaneously returns to life with no brain damage after an unprecedented length of time. The Sanctuary team speculate that the beings are avatars of Abnormals as powerful as Big Bertha, one of which may have been the source of the earthquake that stopped a destructive tidal wave started by Kali's wrath. Meanwhile, Gregory Magnus's message leads them to old birthday gifts he gave Helen, which in conjunction produce a tangible holographic map or miniature representing an unknown steampunk-style city. This is eventually revealed to be Praxis, an advanced underground civilization of humans and Abnormals. After an initial period of mistrust (exacerbated by the antics of Adam Worth, an old enemy of Helen's who inspired Jekyll and Hyde), Helen and her team save the world and reach an entente, with Gregory acting as ambassador. However, the peace does not last long. Worth, who escaped, manipulated unhappy Abnormals in Praxis while experimenting with a dangerously unstable energy source to power a time machine. The end results of his machinations were the destruction of Praxis, several armies of displaced Abnormals marching on the upper world, and his escape to the past to attempt to save his daughter, Magnus hot on his heels.

[Helen Magnus]

Main Characters
Helen Magnus:
160 year old Victorian Scientist who lead the group called The Five. A group of five scientist who injected themselves with vampire blood and gained extraordinary abilities. She also runs the Sanctuary Network which was started by her father.

Henry Zimmerman:
Was rescued from a dangerous abnormal by Helen as a child. His mother had been killed by it to save him. Later William becomes a forensic psychologist and is recruited by Magnus. She trains him to take her place if ever her eternal life ends.

Henry Foss:
A werewolf orphan taken in my Magnus. He grew up to control his powers and now runs all the tech in the Sanctuary as well as the defense programs.

Kate Freelander:
Worked for the Cabal until Magnus took her in, now helps save and protect Abnormals.

Bigfoot:
Came to the Sanctuary long ago where Helen saved his life. Since then he has refused to leave and now acts as bodyguard and handyman to the warehouse.

John Druitt:
Old lover of Helen Magnus and was the father of Ashley. He is a member of the five and was also the natorious Victorian killer Jack the Ripper.

Nikola Tesla:
Another member of the five he had the most unusual power from the vampire blood and actualy became half vampire. He is a brilliant scientist with a crush on Magnus.

[Helen Magnus]

Abnormals

Abnormals are everything that is not human. Those old myths you thought were just stories but are truly flesh and blood. They are werewolves, faries, bigfoot, other cryptids such as the Loch Ness Monster, even human beings with amazing powers that a normal human wouldn't have. Some Abnormals are a species such as mermaids while others can be evolutions handiwork, a strange mutation, or a product of the source blood which turned Magnus and the five into abnormals. Often times abnormals are born. They can be mutations from two normal humans much like X Men mutants, they can be born of one abnormal one human parent inheriting their abnormal parents gift or curse, and most certainly they are born of two abnormals however at times two abnormals can have a human child. There are three forms of abnormals I shall talk about to help you more understand them.

Crypdids:
These are often times more animals than actualy humanoid beings however there are a handful of humanoid beings within this group. These are creatures like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Moth Man, Jersey Devil, Shifters, Tasmanian Tiger, Giant Squid, and even the Lizard Man or the Tropical Rain forest living dinosaur. Hopefuly this gives you a good idea about abnormals.

Legends:
These abnormals are much like the werewolves, vampires, fairies, mermaids, and even zombies. They are the creatures of myth like the dragons and angels, demons, hellhounds, and in truth they are real though sometimes legends make them out to be more than they truly are.

Super humans/Mutants:
Others are just normal people with incredible abilities best described as X Men type people. Either through evolution or mutations these people are not ordinary humans. Such people would be like Griffin the invisable man, Dorian Grey the immortal, or Storm from X Men.

Overall there is an infinite number of abnormals and new ones are discovered every day. When navigating this rp world never feel afraid to make up a completely new abnormal or even face some of those famous ones you hear about. So long as the description is good enough everyone can have fun with it and who knows. Maybe some day your made up abnormal will end up in one of the Sanctuaries.

[Helen Magnus]

Sanctuary Network

The Sanctuary Network is the network of Sanctuaries around the world all under the Sanctuary in Old City run by Helen Magnus. Every Sanctuary offers safety to abnormals and helps to keep them a secret from the human population. Every Sanctuary is run by the Head of the House and has a full step and abnormals who live within the Sanctuary. Sanctuaries will keep dangerous abnormals locked up and let those who came for help or on their own free will wander out freely. They both protect and study abnormals and even work with some of the countries leading governments which aid in keeping the Sanctuary network a secret from the average citizen. Helen Magnus has said about the Sanctuary Network that it was built as a necessity. Not to study the abnormals but give them someplace to fit in and feel safe since it was so desperately needed. So many abnormals were wandering about unable to fit into society and the Sanctuary gave them more then just a place to stay but a home and often times a family.

[Helen Magnus]

A Place to Fit In

Maybe after reading all of this you still are not too sure if you want to jump into the Sanctuary system. Maybe you are worried you will muck it all up and because of this feel alienated. As the title suggests this is a Sanctuary for both fans and newcomers. Fear not if you don't wish to be an active member of the Sanctuary system. You still have the whole of Old City a fictional city located in Canada to roam. You can very well make an original human character who knows nothing of abnormals or maybe you are an abnormal and have never hear of the Sanctuary before. You can interact with everyone within the city and just have fun with it. Run into trouble from time to time. Maybe run into another abnormal who dosn't like you or a human who is anti abnormal. Maybe you are a human who is anti abnormal, your family or you yourself was hurt by one and you wish to kill them all off. You could possibly even run into the Old City Sanctuary team and have no idea what is going on or what they are doing. Either way Old City is a big place with a lot of people and a lot to do. Because the RP revolves around the Sanctuary dosn't mean you have to jump on the band wagon and sign up first chance you get to either work their or be a patient. Half of the Sanctuary world is important because of their citizen's clueless or not, human or abnormals doing what they do. Like adnormals it would be nice to have a wide variety of characters anyways and the beauty of the Sanctuary is that it has an infinite number of possibilities. You just have to come up with a place all your own and own it with no fear.