Just as a Gadget represents a unique machine or possession, Sanctum represents a unique location. This location could be an Antarctic “Meditation Mansion,” a private island, an underground headquarters, a secret valley-whatever. In any event, it belongs to your character, free and clear. Your character’s rating in this Background determines how exotic her sanctum is, how useful it is to her and how difficult it is for her enemies or simply the curious to discover and infiltrate it. The Sanctum score provides your character’s lair with a Cipher rating of equal level against any attempts to discover its existence and location. This Background may be taken more than once for multiple sanctums.

• X No secret lair, but at least your place is clean, right?
• 1 A place that’s either particularly pleasant or unusually secure. A series of three secret rooms under your basement, for instance.
• 2 Something nice and secure but not really lavish. A remote mountaintop dacha, for example.
• 3 A more secure site or one with particular advantages, such as a cave whose mist provides visions of the past.
• 4 A secure, advantageous site, such as a secret silver mine in the middle of a desert oasis that can only be reached safely by air.
• 5 Very secure, and very advantageous: An uncharted island inhabited by amazons who revere you as their goddess-queen.