Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes
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The Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes was a mysterious organisation made up of red-bearded Gnomes. They were seemingly active primarily in the Prime Universe but capable of interdimensional travel.
Nature
Although the Secret League's name resembled that of a Strangely-Colored Secret Society, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's Fact File on the Societies suggested that as far as the Cupids knew, the Gnomes had no connection to the other such Societies. The File stated that the Gnomes “[kept] popping up everywhere” and that they were “utterly inexplicable. And weird”. (PROSE: The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies)
History
Doctor Sigma once displayed images of such a Gnome, who was bemused at the sight of an entrance to the Time Sewers, as part of a lecture on Multiversal theory. He also cited “all the Gnomes” as one of the interesting quirks of the Multiverse which he was sorry he didn't find the time to elucidate during the lecture. (COMIC: The Beginner's Guide to Multiversal Theory) A group of representatives of the Secret League of the Orange-Bearded Gnomes were among the guests in the lobby of Hilbert's, the Interdimensional Hotel, when Wendy VII first visited it. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) In December 2021, Prime Universe time, the “Gnome Place” was among the interdimensional hubs where Century Smith and Briar ended up running into malevolent cyborgs fighting over the title of Supreme Cyborg.
The Secret League also appeared to be among the groups who bid for the venom of the Wyrm of Loki when the Prime Universe's Sigyn decided to auction it off. Like the other bidders, the Gnome representative dissipated like smoke, sent back to his dimension, after Tero Trollgarsson rendered the auction moot by drinking all the venom, leading Sigyn to interrupt the spell she was using to summon them all. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
