Nürnheim is a hidden city that housed the headquarters of the Cult of the Unwritten Book.
History
Cliff Steele has entered the Emilio Cuervo's wound and discovered the hidden city of Nürnheim, where the Cult's headquarters is located. The first creatures he encounters are the hoodmen, who subsist by eating the words that are on the tips of others' tongues. They also convert words to electricity. Having heard an entire phrase, Cliff shorts out, and they drag his body away to Doctor Mirabilis' Most Excellent and Unusual Puppet Theater.
In the Puppet Theater, Cliff hears the Book of the Fifth Window calling out to him. They are both dragged away to meet the Archons of Nürnheim. Confused, Cliff demands to know what aim they might have in destroying everything. The puppets reply that their goal is eternal nothingness.
When the puppets order Cliff and the Fifth Window's deaths, Cliff makes a break for it, and rushes up to the belfry of the church in which the puppet theater is housed, leaping onto one of the ropes attached to the bells' pulley system, and causing them to peel out loudly. The sound alerts Josh Clay, in whose snow globe Nürnheim has been hiding. Sure that the source of the danger is inside it, he smashes it on a table, causing Cliff and the Fifth Window to appear in the Doom Patrol Headquarters. Desperately, Cliff warns Josh to finish destroying the snow globe, but the town inside it begins growing and growing until that effort would be useless. That is, until the city simply disappears before their eyes.[1]
Residents
See Also
- Appearances of Nürnheim
- Location Gallery: Nürnheim
- Catalogued images related to Nürnheim