In the early 2000s, Pullman’s compelling books were irresistible to readers and movie studios. In all, it’s a magical tale where Lyra encounters witches, talking armored bears, and, naturally, parallel worlds, alongside adventure and gut-wrenching emotion. Her world is held in an iron grip by the far-reaching church, the Magisterium, which punishes heresy and is determined to stop whatever Lyra’s semi-estranged father, Lord Asriel, is planning as it could not only bring down the church but challenge the authority of creation itself. Lyra leaves the sleeping spires of Oxford on a dangerous quest to uncover why children are going missing, taking with her an alethiometer, which she can inexplicably read to discern the truth and divine the future. Lyra is the series’ main protagonist, along with her daemon Pantalaimon (who has not yet settled on an animal form due to their age).
The skies are full of airships, and every human is accompanied by a daemon - an anthropomorphic animal symbiotically linked to a person and most commonly understood to be their soul and conscience. The first book of His Dark Materials builds Lyra’s world, one familiar but different to ours.
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