![]() ![]() While officially denying its existence (and that of other worlds) the Magisterium and Mrs Coulter conducted cruel experiments to try to rid the world of Dust, which they viewed as evidence of sin. Angels are made of it, and it can be communicated with via the alethiometer, Mary’s quantum computer and the I Ching. In ours, it’s called dark matter in Lyra’s, it’s called Dust. Before he died, Jopari told Will that he had the only weapon in all the worlds that could destroy the Authority and that he must take the Knife to Lord Asriel to play its part in the coming war.Īnd finally, in a post-credits sequence, a sleeping Lyra heard the voice of her best friend Roger in the Land of the Dead, asking for her help… What is Dust?Ĭonscious elementary particles that surround adults and are common to every world. Lee Scoresby and his daemon Hester were killed by Magisterium soldiers and died heroes, giving Jopari time to meet the Bearer of the Knife/Will and briefly reunite with his son before Jopari was also shot dead by the Magisterium. The Magisterium declared war on Lyra and sent soldiers to kill her before she could fulfil that prophecy. Using the alethiometer, the Magisterium learned that Lyra is the new Eve, destined to be tempted by ‘the serpent’ in the Garden of Eden, and the future of all the worlds would depend on her choice. MacPhail declared war on the Witches, and was voted the next Cardinal, but made powerful enemies in the process. Ruta also stabbed the Cardinal, who was later euthanised by Mrs Coulter who wanted the more malleable Father MacPhail in power. They allowed Mrs Coulter to torture a captured Witch for the information, but Queen Ruta Skadi flew in to mercy-kill the Witch before she could reveal it. Lyra is the subject of an ancient Witch prophecy that her mother Mrs Coulter, and the Magisterium, spent the season trying to discover. Lee joined up with Jopari and they travelled to Cittàgazze in search of the knife, not realising that its new bearer was Jopari’s son Will. to escape from Bolvangar in season one, sought out Jopari because he was rumoured he could lead him to a powerful object (the Subtle Knife) that could protect Lyra. Aeronaut Lee Scoresby, who’d helped Lyra and co. Will’s father John Parry had lived in Lyra’s world for years as the shamanic Jopari (also: explorer Stannislaus Grumman, whose frozen head Asriel mistakenly thought he presented at Lyra’s college in his presentation on Dust). It told Lyra that Will’s father was still alive and they had to find him. Lyra and Marisa’s daemons fought savagely and Lyra and Will escaped with the knife and the alethiometer. He learned how to use it to open and close windows between worlds used it to try to steal back the alethiometer, but were discovered by Boreal and his lover Marisa Coulter – Lyra’s mother. So in Cittàgazze, Will and Lyra entered the Tower of the Angels and Will won the knife in a fight (losing two fingers in the process) and was declared its next Bearer. ![]() In Will’s Oxford, Lord Boreal had stolen Lyra’s alethiometer and forced Will to retrieve the Subtle Knife to get it back. An angel instructed Mary to pass through the Oxford window into Cittàgazze, where Angels would protect her from being attacked by Spectres, and to use the I Ching to communicate with them on her journey to help Lyra. Through it, Mary learned that Angels were Dust, and rebel Angels had spent centuries guiding human discovery as revenge on the tyrannical Angel known as ‘The Authority’ (or monotheistic God, worshipped by the Magisterium), who wanted humanity to remain ignorant and subservient. When Mary hooked Lyra up to the computer (a way to communicate with Dust, much like the alethiometer), she was astounded. There, she met physicist Dr Mary Malone, who was studying dark matter/Dust using a quantum computer. Lyra’s alethiometer told her to seek ‘the Scholar’ to learn more about Dust, and so Will took her to his Oxford to do that. John Parry – who disappeared years earlier – would be able to lead him. Boreal regularly travelled between Lyra and Will’s worlds in search of artefacts including the Subtle Knife, to which he hoped Will’s father Col. There, Lyra met the daemon-less Will, who’d run through the window from his Oxford to escape Lord Boreal and the police after he accidentally killed Boreal’s lackey. After Lyra’s father Lord Asriel killed Roger to open a window between worlds, Lyra and Pan followed Asriel through and ended up in Cittàgazze – a city where all the adults had either fled or been turned into soulless husks by Spectres (floating creatures attracted to ‘Dust’ and so only attack adults, because children aren’t surrounded by the elementary particles). ![]()
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