A list of special sections of Warehouse 13 that do not fall under the umbrella of general ground-level artifact storage.
Observatory[]
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A white domed observatory built into the top of the same mountain as the Warehouse, which it is located a short distance behind.
Description[]
It is presumably where Warehouse employees can make celestial observations.
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Trivia[]
- Despite being seen multiple times throughout the series, exclusively in transitions or overhead shots, it is never actually visited or mentioned.
- Warehouse 12 agent Helena G. Wells was known to have worked with an astronomer (who was presumably not a direct Warehouse employee, if affiliated with it at all) working at London's Royal Observatory on creating a rocket powered by an artifact, from where it would be launched.[1] It is possible that multiple Warehouses have had their own observatories, or use ones located in their host locations, and thus that Warehouse 13, the first Warehouse located in a non-major location that thus lacks an observatory of its own, made its own out of necessity.
Alternate Entrances[]
Mountainside Entrance[]
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Description[]
Warehouse 9's original main entrance was a secret door that could only be opened by speaking the phrase "iftah ya simsim" (افتح يا سمسم), which is Arabic for "open sesame". It has since been repurposed as a secret entrance and exit for Warehouse 13, built into another part of the mountainside that the Warehouse also is.
When the phrase is spoken, a doorway will open in the rock and enter into a tunnel, in which there are three doors. One door, the left, leads to a spiral staircase within the middle of the Warehouse's right-hand wall overlooking the main floor, while the other two are implied to lead to an unpleasant trap for intruders.
History[]
In an alternate timeline created by Philip Van Doren Stern's Upholstery Brush, Pete Lattimer leads Arthur Nielsen, Myka Bering, and Claudia Donovan into the Warehouse through this secret entrance. Artie describes the entrance's history, Myka correctly says the password, and Pete's vibes guide him to the correct door. Once inside, they reach the spiral staircase and split up to accomplish their missions.[2]
After Paracelsus gains control of the Warehouse by strengthening his connection as Caretaker, he activates the shield usually created by the Remati Shackle to trap the agents inside. Artie leads the group to the alternate entrance via the spiral staircase, as it runs underneath the shield and can thus bypass it. Claudia splits from the group to stay behind and confront Paracelsus.[3]
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Agent Regent Sanctum Door[]
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The Umbilicus[]
See: The Umbilicus
Main Office[]
See: Main Office
Manual Room[]
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Description[]
This room houses all entries of the Warehouse Manual.
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Personnel Quarters Archive[]
See: Personnel Quarters Archive
The Pyramid[]
See: The Pyramid
Feng Shui Spiral[]
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TBA
Description[]
The spiral is located at the heart of a Feng Shui garden that is located inside the Warehouse. Despite the name, the Spiral is a not a spiral, but two concentric circles. The outer ring is divided into 48 sections, on which various emotions are written in Traditional Chinese Logograph. The user must sit in the center while holding an artifact; one of the symbols on the edge of the spiral will light up and tell what overpowering emotion created that particular artifact. For example, when the Norge Porthole was placed in the circle, the symbol meaning "indescribable beauty" lit up. (The Norge was the first dirigible to cross the North Pole and when the crew of the ship saw the Northern Lights for the first time the porthole absorbed the feeling of wonder and amazement they were experiencing at that moment.)
The Spiral was first used by Warehouse 6 to help shelve the "more difficult" artifacts because every artifact in the Warehouse has a unique location where it needs to be; if it is shelved incorrectly unpredictable things could happen. A placement catalog is kept on a table near the entrance to the Spiral so users know where an artifact should be shelved based on its emotional reading.
When using the Spiral, it is important to enter it with a calm and clear mind. Otherwise the user's own emotions may prevent the spiral from getting an accurate reading (due to it registering the emotion of the user instead of the artifact), thus causing an artifact to be shelved incorrectly. Previously, it was where Leena worked before her death. Steve Jinks has shown an ability to use the Spiral properly; it is unknown whether any other current Warehouse employee can do likewise.
Emotion Tiles[]
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The Feng Shui Spiral's 48 emotions (written in Traditional Chinese Logograph, meant to be read in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom manner) are as follows: Translations provided by Reddit user BlackRaptor62.
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History[]
The Feng Shui Spiral was introduced by Warehouse 6, and has subsequently been implemented into every Warehouse since.[4]
While Leena worked for Warehouse 13, this is where she would work to determine where to shelve artifacts whose emotions were too difficult to identify with her own aura-reading ability.[4]
After her death, Arthur Nielsen briefly took on the responsibility of using the Spiral to shelve artifacts. However, his own negative emotions over having been responsible for her death were interfering with the Spiral, causing it to read his own emotions instead of the artifacts he was trying to analyze. Having been given the incorrect defining emotion for the Norge Porthole, he stored it in aisle Toledo-81K, which resulted in the activation of many artifacts, including Leonardo da Vinci's Gargoyle. After the situation was resolved and the reason behind the Spiral's incorrect analysis was determined, Steve Jinks used the Spiral himself to properly shelve the Porthole, as his own emotions were more controlled and centered.[4]
After this, the Spiral is never seen or mentioned again, but Steve presumably still took on the responsibility of using the Spiral afterwards.
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Eldunari[]
See: Eldunari
Suspension Chamber[]
Paracelsus imprisoned in chamber
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TBA
Description[]
A chamber in the Warehouse used to temporarily imprison enemies of the Warehouse; the suspension chamber was not created to imprison people indefinitely like the bronze sector, but is designed so people trapped in it can't escape. The prisoner is levitated above the ground by an energy field created by electricity being discharged from 4 separate Tesla coils.
History[]
In the episode "The Truth Hurts", Pete, Myka, and Artie attempted to bronze Paracelsus, but Paracelsus ingested a chemical cocktail earlier that prevented his body from being bronzed. That was when Artie suggested they put Paracelsus in the suspension chamber until the Regents think of a more permanent punishment.
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IRS Quartum[]
The IRS Quartum's name is an acronym for Imperium Romanum Sacrum, the Latin term for the Holy Roman Empire, the host country of Warehouse 8. All of Warehouse 8's files are stored here, and a portion physical files were digitized and stored in Warehouse 13's virtual database (though some was not, leaving the only other record of them in the sector's manifest). In the event of incidents such as fires, this sector has doors that can be closed to seal itself off and prevent it from spreading, and also contains several fire extinguishers. Several large digital screens are also located here, from which the Warehouse's database can be accessed.
After Arthur Nielsen succumbed to the effects of Ferdinand Magellan's Astrolabe, he searched the Quartum's contents for information on the Chinese Orchid. He then used Hugo Miller's holographic projectors to distract the other agents while he set off an explosion via either an artifact or device stored within a crate, destroying evidence of what he was searching for and much of its contents. After Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering out out the fires, Claudia Donovan searched the database for clues on what Artie was searching for to no avail. Then, realizing that not all of the sector's inventory was digitized, they checked the manifest.
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Trivia[]
- The IRS Quartum's name coincidentally aligns with Warehouse 13's cover story for the citizens of Univille: it is a storage warehouse for the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) that houses every tax return ever filed.[5]
The Bronze Sector[]
See: Bronze Sector
The Escher Vault[]
See: Escher Vault
Neutralizer Processing Center[]
See: Neutralizer Processing Center
Warehouse Library[]
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Description[]
Stocked with first editions of everything that has ever been printed.[6] It is organized according to the Dewey Decimal System.[7]
In the case of Anthony Bishop's Manuscript, it is also shown to house unpublished works.[8] Artifacts that are printed media, such as books, are apparently stored separately from normal non-artifact inventory.[9]
History[]
After the discovery that James MacPherson had un-Bronzed Helena G. Wells, Myka Bering obtained several of the author's (actually penned by her brother, Charles) books and brought them to the main office to read for potential clues as to what her plan might be. She expressed great excitement at the library's cast contents, and Leena explained to her that it houses first editions of everything ever printed.[10]
Myka and Pete were later tasked with using Vyasa's Jade Elephant and its accompanying battery backpack to capture errant static balls roaming through the library to minimize their damage. After overcharging the Elephant and being unable to drain it all into the backpack, it discharged electricity and sent pages of Bishop's Manuscripts everywhere, resulting in both the Elephant and the agents being sucked inside the Manuscript. After finishing the Manuscript's story and being released from it back into the Warehouse, Pete and Myka collected its pages and put it back in its place on a bookshelf.[8]
Later, while Pete and Myka were tasked with taking inventory of the Warehouse's main storage floor, Myka told Pete that Bishop's Manuscript is actually meant to be stored elsewhere than where they last shelved it.[11]
Appearances[]
- Time Will Tell (mentioned)
- The Big Snag
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Computer Lab[]
| “ | Fargo: You have a computer lab? Claudia: More like a computer morgue. |
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— 13.1
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Description[]
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History[]
A long disused portion of the Warehouse; it was workplace of Hugo Miller prior to his retirement. This room held the "fail safe" computer that was turned on when Douglas Fargo from Eureka installed the new warehouse system named "Warehouse 13.1"
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The Pete Cave[]
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TBA
Description[]
Hidden in the back of the motorcycle aisle. Created by Pete as a secret den, but Claudia knew about it because she was the one who would restock the fridge with cream sodas.
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TBA
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Lehmann Fornax[]
See: Lehmann Fornax
Memini Chamber[12][]
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The chamber is a four-sided room: the entrance is on one side, and the remaining three are decorated with circular images depicting a world map with the location of each past Warehouse highlighted, an image of Warehouse 2's interior, and the symbols of several previous Warehouses (in Warehouse 13's cases, these were the logos of Warehouses 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12). The floor beneath the table is decorated with various symbols and messages in different languages representing infinity, time, and memory.
Description[]
The dedicated chamber in which the Round Table is stored. When it is time for the current Warehouse to be shut down and replaced with the next one, the current agents are instructed to submit a memory of their "defining moment" as agents to the table as a time capsule
History[]
TBA
Trivia[]
- It is unknown if the symbols of past Warehouses depicted in the Memini Chamber are simply the five before the current iteration, and thus would change with each new Warehouse, or if the chosen Warehouses are depicted for a specific reason (for example, only Warehouses 8 and after are shown and never any before Warehouse 8).
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References[]
- ↑ 3... 2... 1
- ↑ The Greatest Gift
- ↑ The Truth Hurts
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Parks and Rehabilitation
- ↑ Beyond Our Control
- ↑ Myka Bering: "Maybe there's a clue in one of Wells's books, because our library is amazing." Leena: "I know, first editions of everything that's ever been printed." Time Will Tell
- ↑ The Big Snag (see this and this image)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Big Snag
- ↑ Myka Bering: "Pete, this Bishop novel that we got sucked into actually belongs in..." The Sky's the Limit
- ↑ Time Will Tell
- ↑ The Sky's the Limit
- ↑ Season 5 DVD; "Endless" episode commentary
