Morrigan (Sanctuary)

The Morrigan are a group that feature in Sanctuary.

History

The Morrigan were a trio of powerful Abnormals that existed on Earth. According to the Arthurian legend, the Morrígan were emissaries created by Morgan le Fay to wreak havoc against King Arthur's armies, described as the very embodiment of Morgan's hellish powers. Their very presence on the battlefield would steal the souls of enemy soldiers.

The Morrigan were ancient beings that were depicted in Arthurian legend and said to have arisen during the reign of King Arthur. They were three sisters who, when combined, had the power to destroy men. Their powers allowed them to devastate entire armies with no evidence of spear or sword being placed. In the Middle Ages, they continued their path of destruction until they were captured by the Cabalis Nocturnum and placed in crypts in Scotland.

Helen Magnus, Ashley Magnus, and Will Zimmerman went to explore a crypt located on an island off the coast of Scotland. Supposedly, the crypt contained an ancient elixir capable of prolonging a person's life by centuries, but before they could enter the crypt they had to fight the keepers of the dead which were guarding the crypt with their lives. When Will entered the crypt, he accidentally activated a mechanism that drained a green liquid from the three stone coffins in the crypt and revealed one of the of the three Morrígan sisters inside each coffin.

They were awoken by the people of the Sanctuary facility but they had lost their memory. At first, they believed they were simply survivors of a plague but through Will's therapy they eventually regained their memory. They then attempted to destroy the Sanctuary as they believed them enemies of the Cabal to which they served. This was because they had lived under the Cabal for so long that they believed themselves nothing more then property. However, Will explained to them how they have the right to choose what they should be. However, they were given a taste of true freedom but at this point the Cabal invaded the Sanctuary. The Cabal eventually tracked the Morrígan to the Old City Sanctuary and launched an invasion of the house to re-capture the Morrígan. Will and the others were fully prepared to fight the Cabal, but the Morrígan chose to return to them willingly as they knew the Cabal would never stop hunting them. In order to protect their new friends, the Morrigan handed themselves in to the Cabal who placed them in three separate trucks and shipped back to base. However, thanks to Will, the Morrígan had a new sense of freedom and self-determination.

Several members of the Morrígan were discovered by Dr. Helen Magnus, Ashley Magnus, and Dr. Will Zimmerman during an expedition to an ancient crypt on an island off the coast of Scotland. The team excavated three women named Danu, Tatha, and Caird, who had been entombed and kept in suspended animation for 1,200 years. Upon awakening the captives, the Sanctuary team defended them from a violent ambush by the Keepers of the Dead, who were sworn to guard the crypt with their lives. The rescued women suffered from profound amnesia but eventually recalled a traumatic memory of causing mass devastation and death to an entire historic village. When a secretive global organization known as the Cabal captured several crypt keepers to track down the entities, the three women decided to turn themselves in to protect the Sanctuary. However, after Will taught them about the concepts of personal freedom and self-determination, they chose to defy their conditioning and broke free from their captors.

The Morrígan were taken back to the Old City Sanctuary and after they awoke they all had almost complete amnesia about who they were.

Overview

In appearance, the Morrigan were a trio of female looking Abnormals noted for being powerful and had served as devastating weapons of war. They functioned as a singular, deeply bonded triune unit that carried a quiet, disoriented demeanor due to centuries of confinement and external psychological conditioning. The group maintained a passive yet deeply ominous presence, acting with extreme caution as they struggled to process their sudden freedom in the modern age. Their immediate objective shifted from serving as a pawn for ancient warlords to breaking the cycle of their violent history. Regarding their clothing and costumes, the three sisters wore simple, historical undergarments and tattered, flowing light dresses from the era of their burial. They featured completely human physical traits, completely hiding the fact that they possessed an inner biological structure capable of generating immense supernatural warfare. This unassuming, vulnerable aesthetic served to mask their true nature as global-level weapons, projecting an image of helpless captives rather than ancient entities of battlefield doom.

The Morrigan were described as psychics with the ability to learn language telepathically allowing them to adjust to the modern age. When they held their hands together, they were capable of levitation and causing great destruction with a light that emanated from them.

The agents of the Morrígan demonstrated a specialized and catastrophic set of telepathic and energetic abilities during their extraction from the Scottish crypt. They exhibited an advanced form of psychic language acquisition, allowing them to telepathically learn and adapt to modern spoken language instantly upon waking up. For defense and mobility, the trio utilized a shared levitation capability, allowing them to lift their bodies completely off the ground when their powers were fully active. Their offensive capabilities were entirely dependent on physical contact with one another; when all three sisters held hands, they generated an incredible, synchronized psychic amplification loop. This technique allowed them to manipulate objects telekinetically and emit a blinding, destructive force of mental energy capable of killing hundreds of enemy soldiers instantly without leaving standard physical wounds. Beyond raw physical damage, the group possessed a historical reputation for stealing the souls of entire opposing armies on the battlefield, functioning as an absolute deterrent against the Cabal's tactical strike teams.

However, when the Morrígan are all holding hands together they can generate incredible power allowing them to levitate, move objects, and even kill potentially hundreds of people with nothing more then the power of their minds.

Members

• Tatha :
• Caird :
• Danu :

Notes

• The Morrigan were created by Damian Kindler and Martin Wood where they featured in the setting of the Sanctuary universe.
• They were based on the Morrigan from Arthurian Legend.

Appearances

• Sanctuary: "Fata Morgana"

External Links

• Sanctuary Wiki Entry

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