This is the end of the gnomes in my garden...
![](https://s5.postimg.org/w25503g07/Gnomes_Screenshot-363_zps681088aa.jpg)
At this point I am wondering what this dark gnome is and where he came from?
![](https://s5.postimg.org/t5i3zta6f/Gnomes_Screenshot-364_zpsfc205ac6.jpg)
The old gnomes are still making their presence felt in the house.
![](https://s5.postimg.org/wvhqspm13/Gnomes_Screenshot-366_zps6face477.jpg)
This is when I first got the idea that they were dying...
![](https://s5.postimg.org/n9o6ceuvb/Gnomes_Screenshot-375_zps3145ef50.jpg)
That dark gnome is in this picture - close to the camera, looking at the other old gnomes who are still living at the moment
![](https://s5.postimg.org/imi4an7if/Gnomes_Screenshot-376_zpsb1e91a4f.jpg)
A few more tombstones have appeared - and that dark gnome is in the picture again.
![](https://s5.postimg.org/w8iu36p53/Gnomes_Screenshot-377_zpsef46e44c.jpg)
I found one on the front path
![](https://s5.postimg.org/j5rsxnoav/Gnomes_Screenshot-378_zps7d79f8e7.jpg)
And more on the other side of the lot. It is interesting how one often seems to be standing in the middle of the fence.
![](https://s5.postimg.org/gyiyvztmv/Gnomes_Screenshot-379_zps2de64dd6.jpg)
This is when I start thinking that dark gnome must be the gnome Grim Reaper. There seem to be only two gnomes left alive at this moment...
![](https://s5.postimg.org/b2tmmc3pj/Gnomes_Screenshot-380_zps7f999a88.jpg)
And then there was one ...
![](https://s5.postimg.org/50lzvuf9j/Gnomes_Screenshot-383_zps0ced6307.jpg)
I was trying to get a clear shot of his face - it isn't easy even though they aren't moving.
![](https://s5.postimg.org/6i7g7ek07/Gnomes_Screenshot-385_zps59c0a406.jpg)
Of course, by the end the path to the front door is clogged with gnome tombstones.
![](https://s5.postimg.org/yywre4b7r/Gnomes_Screenshot-387_zpsda9f8b61.jpg)
I think I'll gather all the tombstones in one place.
Interestingly all of the gnomes were named. I know I do have a habit of clicking onto them occasionally and accepting the default name. Even that dark gnome is named - and I am almost certain he is that baby who appeared right at the beginning.
At least now I won't worry about allowing other types of gnomes loose in this household for fear of them ganging up on the old residents. One of my Sims already has a Magical Gnome of Invention in his inventory - he fished it out of the Wishing Well. I might let it out of his inventory now.
At least I still have the original save tucked safely away so I can resurrect them all if I really want to. Right now I really don't want to. But it reminds me a bit of those theories of many different parallel universes with many different possible outcomes.
My big question is : what is that dark gnome? Is he just a lonely teenager who has been left lonely after all of his family has gone and died of old age? Or is he some sort of grim reaper of gnomes? I have heard of teenage gnomes - but not grim reaper gnomes. So he's probably just an unlucky teenager who will live for a while until he grows old and dies - or until one of the vampire (or other) gnomes gets him.