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This is a list of characters from the two Philip Pullman trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Introduced in Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua Main article: Lyra Belacqua Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials and a key character in The Book of Dust. Together with her dæmon Pantalaimon, she is introduced in La Belle Sauvage ...
The Subtle Knife is a young-adult fantasy novel published in 1997 and the second book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The novel continues the adventures of Lyra Belacqua (now known as Lyra Silvertongue) recounted in the first novel, Northern Lights, as she investigates the mysterious phenomenon of Dust.
Lyra Belacqua (/ ˈ l aɪ r ə b ə ˈ l ɑː k w ə / LY-rə bə-LAH-kwə), later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.In His Dark Materials Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own.
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust.The story is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy. [2]
Pullman conceived The Book of Dust before the publication of Lyra's Oxford in 2003 [4] [5] and in 2005 he confirmed the book was "under way". [6] Early on he described it as being a longer book than he had initially imagined [7] [8] and later that he was considering writing two volumes, one set before His Dark Materials and the other set afterwards. [9]
Deaths are present in a physical form in some worlds, much as dæmons can be seen in Lyra's. Deaths can disappear in a similar manner to dæmons. In The Amber Spyglass a dead girl says that her death "went forever". [3] Lyra is confronted with her death when she and Will enter the underworld in order to contact the ghost of Lyra's dead friend ...
Lewin Lloyd as Roger Parslow, a kitchen boy who is Lyra's best friend (series 1 and 3; guest series 2) Daniel Frogson as Tony Costa, Ma Costa's elder son (series 1) James McAvoy as Lord Asriel Belacqua, [3] a scholar and explorer who is Lyra's father, and leads the resistance against the Authority (series 1 and 3; guest series 2) [4]