List of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust characters
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
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
By the events of
In the unabridged audiobooks, Lyra is voiced by Joanna Wyatt, and in the BBC Radio dramatisation she is voiced by Lulu Popplewell.[2] In the 2003 stage production at the Royal National Theatre, the character was played by Anna Maxwell Martin. In the 2007 movie adaptation, she is played by Dakota Blue Richards[3] who also voiced her in the video game adaptation of the film. Dafne Keen plays the character in the His Dark Materials TV series.
Lord Asriel
Lord Asriel is a member of the English aristocracy and Lyra's father. His dæmon Stelmaria is a snow leopard.[1]
Asriel had an affair with Marisa Coulter, a married woman, leading to Lyra's birth. Asriel kills Mrs Coulter's husband after he finds out, but is spared imprisonment because of laws allowing self-defence. As a part of his punishment, he is barred from seeing Lyra, but he takes an interest in her raising, delivering her to Jordan College and visiting her. Lyra grows up believing Asriel to be her uncle rather than her father.
Asriel is described as being "a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seem to flash and glitter with savage laughter".[1] Possessed of enormous determination and willpower, he is fierce in nature and commands great respect in both the political and academic spheres, being a military leader and a fellow of Jordan College. In Northern Lights, he is able to build a bridge to another world, where he assembles an army to oppose The Authority, an angel that claims to be God. Asriel dies alongside Mrs Coulter killing Metatron, the Authority's regent.[4]
In the unabridged audiobooks, Lord Asriel is voiced by
Marisa Coulter
Marisa Coulter (ordinarily called Mrs Coulter in the books) is Lyra's mother and a powerful figure in the Magisterium, the governing organisation of the Church.[1] She founds the League of St Alexander in La Belle Sauvage, and later heads the General Oblation Board, referred to colloquially as the Gobblers. Her dæmon is a golden-coloured monkey,[5] who, in the books, is never named and only speaks once (he is called Ozymandias in the BBC Radio adaptations and in the subtitles for the 2019 TV series, and the character Malcolm Polstead notes in La Belle Sauvage that, "if that monkey had a name it might be 'Malice'"[6]).
She is cruel and merciless at times, stopping at nothing to obtain what she wants. She is deceptive, full of grace and beauty, and uses these qualities to get her way. However, when she finds her daughter in peril at Bolvangar, she experiences a sudden realisation of intense maternal love and a wish to care for Lyra which outweighs her previous loyalty to the Church, and thereafter she goes to great lengths to shield her from the events around her.[7] She dies alongside Asriel while killing Metatron, the regent of the Authority.
In the unabridged audiobooks, Mrs Coulter is voiced by Alison Dowling; in the BBC Radio dramatisation she is voiced by Emma Fielding;[2] in the film, The Golden Compass, she is played by Nicole Kidman[3] while Erin Matthews voices her in the video game adaptation. For the Royal National Theatre production in 2003, Patricia Hodge created the role. Ruth Wilson plays the character in the His Dark Materials (TV series) (2019).
Iorek Byrnison
Iorek Byrnison is an armoured bear and companion of Lyra's. Armoured bears, known as panserbjørne in Danish, are a race of polar bear-like creatures with human-level intelligence and opposable thumbs; they have no dæmons and consider their armour, which is made of meteoric iron, to be their soul.[1]
Before the events of His Dark Materials, Iorek meets and befriends Lee Scoresby. Iorek was king of the armoured bears in Svalbard, but was exiled after killing another bear in a fight. Normally, when a bear realises that they are outmatched, they will surrender, but Iorek's opponent had been drugged by Iofur Raknison, second in line for the throne, to prevent this.[1] Following his exile, the humans of an Arctic port town deceived him by giving him spirits and stealing his armour while he was intoxicated. Lyra finds him in Northern Lights working in a scrap yard for food and board and proceeds to use her alethiometer to help him retrieve his armour. Following this, he helps Lyra, naming her Silvertongue. When Lyra ends up imprisoned by Iofur Raknison, she arranges a fight between Iorek and Iofur for the throne, which Iorek wins.[1]
After the opening of a gate to
In the film, he is voiced by Ian McKellen[3] while Fred Tatasciore voices him in the video game adaptation. In the unabridged audiobooks, Iorek is voiced by Sean Barrett. Joe Tandberg voices and motion-captures Iorek in the TV series.
John Faa
John Faa, sometimes known as Lord Faa, is the Lord of the western
When the Oblation Board starts kidnapping children, he leads 170 of his men to save them. He is wounded in an ambush but carries out his mission successfully, retrieving the children Lyra helped rescue, and taking them back to England.
In the film The Golden Compass, Faa is played by Jim Carter while Michael Gough voices him in the video game adaptation. Lucian Msamati plays the character in the His Dark Materials TV series, and Douglas Blackwell voiced him in the audiobooks.[citation needed]
Ma Costa
Ma Costa is a Gyptian woman whose son, Billy Costa, is abducted by the "Gobblers" early in Northern Lights. A year before the beginning of the book, Lyra and her friends had "hijacked" her family's boat and sailed it to Abingdon, the next town downriver. In spite of this, Ma Costa rescues Lyra and takes her to John Faa.[1]
When Lyra is hiding with the Gyptians, she discovers that Ma Costa had in fact nursed her, when she was a baby. Ma Costa's dæmon is a hawk.[1]
Anne-Marie Duff plays the character in the His Dark Materials TV series.[8] and Jill Shilling voiced her in the audiobooks of Northern Lights.[citation needed]
Bernie Johansen
A minor character whose dæmon has the rare quality of being the same gender as himself. Half-gyptian, he was tasked with watching Lyra for Lord Faa while working as a pastry chef at Jordan College.[9]
Serafina Pekkala
Serafina Pekkala is a clan queen of the witches of Lake Enara who, along with her snow goose dæmon Kaisa, is closely associated with Lyra and her journey.[1] She assists Lyra in her fight at Bolvangar and throughout His Dark Materials, travelling into other worlds and attempting to heal Will Parry. At the end of The Amber Spyglass, she names Will's dæmon, and encourages Will and Lyra's dæmons to return to them.
Serafina claims to be three hundred years old or more.[1] Before the events of La Belle Sauvage, Farder Coram saved her life from an attack by another witch's dæmon, and they became lovers. They had a son who died from a disease from the East.[1]
Pullman claimed on the BBC World Service programme World Book Club in December 2005, that Serafina's name came from a Finnish telephone directory.[10] In context, Pullman was teasing the audience, however the claim has since been repeated on several fan-sites. Later in the same programme and in a speech made in Dundee, he said that the name came from a list of politicians living in Copenhagen.
In the film
Lee Scoresby
Lee Scoresby is a skilled "aëronaut"
Lee meets Iorek Byrnison in Once Upon a Time in the North when he is twenty-four. In Northern Lights, Lee is hired by John Faa and the Gyptians to aid in their mission to save the kidnapped children; following the rescue, he helps transport Lyra to Svalbard.[1] In The Subtle Knife, he pledges to help the witches in their fight against the Magisterium and sets out to find Stanislaus Grumman. Grumman, also known as Jopari or John Parry, is a shaman and travels with Lee into the world of Cittàgazze. Lee gives his life fighting Magisterium soldiers, allowing John Parry to reach his goal.
Following their deaths, Lee and Parry fight Spectres after they are released from the Land of the Dead in The Amber Spyglass. After this task is done, Lee allows himself to dissolve so that his atoms can be mixed with the atoms of Hester and his other loved ones.
Philip Pullman said of Scoresby's name that "the Lee part comes from the actor Lee Van Cleef ... because I thought my Lee would look like him, and the Scoresby comes from William Scoresby, who was a real Arctic explorer."[11]
American actor Sam Elliott plays Lee Scoresby in the film The Golden Compass while James Horan voices him in the video game adaptation. Lin-Manuel Miranda plays the character in the His Dark Materials TV series. In the audiobooks Lee is played by Garrick Hagon, who also directed the productions.[citation needed]
Iofur Raknison
Iofur Raknison is an armoured bear who wishes to be equal to a human.[1] After usurping Iorek Byrnison as king of the armoured bears, he commands his subjects to build a palace of stone and wear ornamentation of gold and silver, which had been traditionally despised. He had dealings with the Magisterium and Mrs Coulter, allowing them access to his kingdom in exchange for the ability to be baptised as a Christian. Lyra is able to trick him into fighting Iorek Byrnison by convincing him that she is herself a dæmon and that she could become his dæmon.[1] Traditionally, armoured bears are unable to be tricked but in his behaving like a human, he loses this ability; Iorek is able to exploit this by feigning injury. After Iofur's defeat, Iorek is proclaimed the king, and his first command is that the bears discard their pseudo-human trinkets and tear down Iofur's palace.[1]
In the 2007 film adaptation, The Golden Compass, the character is renamed Ragnar Sturlusson to prevent confusion with Iorek Byrnison[12] and is voiced by Ian McShane while JB Blanc voices him the video game adaptation. In the TV series, Iofur is motion-captured by Joi Johannsson and voiced by Peter Serafinowicz. In the audiobook of Northern Lights, he is voiced by Douglas Blackwell.[citation needed]
Roger Parslow
Roger Parslow, a young
Roger is kidnapped by the General Oblation Board ("the Gobblers") and taken to their experimental centre in
In The Amber Spyglass, he appears trapped in the Land of the Dead. Lyra is eventually able to free him and all the other dead souls to merge with the Dust in the living worlds.
In the movie, Roger is played by Ben Walker. In the TV series, Roger is played by Lewin Lloyd. In the audiobooks, he is voiced by Susan Sheridan.[citation needed]
Lord Boreal
Lord Carlo Boreal, or Sir Charles Latrom,
Lord Boreal is first seen in Lyra Belacqua's world at the cocktail party of
In The Subtle Knife, Boreal watches Lyra exploring a museum in Will's world and approaches her, appearing to be a kindly old man whose only interest in her is to discuss the skulls. Lyra remembers seeing him previously, but is unsure of his identity. Later, when Lyra is being chased by the men who are after John Parry's notes, Latrom is in a chauffeured limousine and offers her a lift, at which time he steals her alethiometer. Lord Boreal tells them that they must get the
In a tent in the mountains of Cittàgazze, Mrs Coulter 'spikes' Boreal's drink in order to make him tell her about the Subtle Knife; he dies shortly thereafter from the poisoned drink.
Boreal's
Ariyon Bakare plays this character in the TV series, in which the role is expanded, including that he is assigned to look for John Parry and enlists a pale-faced contact on Earth to help search for him while spying on Parry's family.[citation needed] In the audiobooks, he is voiced by Stephen Thorne.[citation needed]
Farder Coram
Coram Van Texel is a
More than fifty years prior to the start of the trilogy, Coram travelled to the north, where he witnessed a
He accompanies
Coram re-appears briefly at the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass when he and other Gyptians are drawn into the world of the Mulefa to meet Lyra and bring her home before the worlds separate once again.
'Farder' is possibly a dialect variant of 'Father', honouring his role as 'Elder' to the Gyptians. He is played by Tom Courtenay in the film The Golden Compass. In the film The Golden Compass, his dæmon is a caracal, an African, lynx-like wildcat.
James Cosmo plays the character in the His Dark Materials TV series, whilst Stephen Thorne provides his voice in the audiobooks.[citation needed]
The Master of Jordan College
The Master of Jordan heads Jordan College, part of Oxford University in Lyra's world. Helped by other Jordan College employees, he is raising the supposedly orphaned Lyra.[1] His daemon is a raven.
In La Belle Sauvage, he offers scholastic refuge to Lyra. In Northern Lights, he tries unsuccessfully to poison Lord Asriel, hoping that it will protect Lyra and prevent conflict. In The Amber Spyglass, he offers Lyra a place to live at Jordan, and funding for her education.
In the film The Golden Compass, he is played by Jack Shepherd. In the television adaptation, he is played by Clarke Peters, and in the audiobooks he is voiced by Stephen Thorne.[citation needed]
Dame Hannah Relf
Dame Hannah Relf and her marmoset dæmon Jesper are scholars at St Sophia's college. In La Belle Sauvage, she is an alethiometrist and a member of Oakley street, a secret society opposing the Magisterium. By the time of Northern Lights, she is the Mistress of St Sophia's college.[1]
In The Amber Spyglass, she invites Lyra to study at St Sophia's and learn to read the alethiometer from her.
Introduced in The Subtle Knife
Will Parry
Will Parry is the bearer of the Subtle Knife and a point of view protagonist of The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. He is the son of
In the unabridged audiobooks, Will was voiced by Steven Webb for The Subtle Knife and by Peter England for The Amber Spyglass.[13] In the TV series, he is played by Amir Wilson.
Dr. Mary Malone
Dr. Mary Malone is a physicist from
In The Subtle Knife, Lyra meets her and tells her about her world's research into Dust, which Mary equates with dark matter and refers to as Shadows. Lyra demonstrates the use of her alethiometer, and Mary is able to program her dark matter detector to function similarly. The detector instructs her to go through the window into Cittàgazze, which she does, eventually arriving at the world of the
At the end of The Amber Spyglass, Serafina Pekkala reveals to Mary both how to see her dæmon and also its form – that of an alpine chough. She offers to help Will upon their return to their own world.
Mary Malone does not appear in Nicholas Wright's stage adaptation of the novels due to the difficulty of representing Mulefa onstage. The role of the tempter was given to Serafina Pekkala, who was also the bearer of the spyglass, which had been created by Jopari (John Parry) as a device to view Dust.
In the TV series, she is introduced in the second series and played by Simone Kirby. In the audiobooks, she is played by Kate Lock.[citation needed]
Tullio
Tullio is a teenage boy who lives in Cittàgazze. He is the owner of the Subtle Knife until he loses it fighting Will Parry who loses two fingers. Tullio is later attacked by the Spectres and his soul is eaten.
In the TV series, Tullio is played by Lewis MacDougall.
Angelica and Paolo
Angelica and Paolo are a brother and sister who live in Cittàgazze and are the younger siblings of Tullio. They were separated from their parents when the Spectres first appeared. After Tullio is killed by the Spectres, they lead other children in an attack on Lyra and Will in order to avenge Tullio but are repelled by the Witches.
In The Amber Spyglass, Angelica and Paolo encounter Mary Malone where they tell her about their encounter with Lyra and Will where they still blame them for Tullio's death.
In the TV series, Angelica is played by
Giacomo Paradisi
Giacomo Paradisi is an old man who lives in Cittàgazze and is a member of the Guild of the Torre degli Angeli. He was the bearer of the Subtle Knife and wears gloves to hide the fact that he has fingers missing as a result. Tullio had stolen the Subtle Knife from Giacomo before fighting Will over it. Giacomo declares Will to be the new bearer of the Subtle Knife. He later takes poison to prevent the Spectres preying on him.
In the TV series, Giacomo Paradisi is played by Terence Stamp.
John Parry
Colonel John Parry, also known as Dr Stanislaus Grumman and Jopari, is the father of Will Parry and the husband of Elaine Parry.
Prior to the start of the trilogy, John Parry had been a famous English explorer and a major in the
In
In The Amber Spyglass after their deaths, he and Lee Scoresby are amongst those set free by Lyra and Will from the world of the Dead. Instead of immediately dissolving into the universe like the other dead, they both remain intact long enough to fight in the battle with the Authority.
In the television series, Parry is played by Andrew Scott. Julian Glover provides his voice in the audiobooks of The Subtle Knife, and James Greene in The Amber Spyglass.[citation needed]
Balthamos and Baruch
Balthamos and his partner Baruch are both
Both angels find Will Parry at the end of The Subtle Knife; because Will is the bearer of the subtle knife, they hope to take him to Lord Asriel. However, Will's companion Lyra Belacqua has been kidnapped and Will refuses to go to Asriel until Lyra is found. The angels agree to accompany Will until she is found. Baruch is killed while taking important information to Lord Asriel in The Amber Spyglass, and Balthamos, stricken with grief, promises to aid Will in every way possible to honour Baruch's sacrifice. When Balthamos is unable to do so, he runs away, grieving over Baruch's death and feeling guilty about abandoning Will. At the end of the book, Balthamos confronts and kills Father Gomez, an assassin hoping to kill Lyra, and dies himself from the bites of Gomez' dæmon ending the confrontation in a mutual kill.
As angels of low rank, Balthamos and Baruch's abilities are limited. They appear as luminous humanlike forms, which are barely visible to
In Arabic-Christian legends, the name Baruch is identified with Zoroaster. The prophecy of the birth of Jesus from a virgin, and of his adoration by the Magi, is also ascribed to this Baruch.[14]
In the TV series, Balthamos and Baruch are played by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Simon Harrison. In the audiobook of The Amber Spyglass, Balthamos is played by Alec McCowan and Baruch is played by Nigel Carrington.[citation needed]
Chevalier Tialys and Lady Salmakia
The Chevalier Tialys and The Lady Salmakia are
They first encounter the children when, along with Lord Asriel's forces, they arrive at Mrs Coulter's cave, under orders to take the children to Lord Asriel. The Gallivespians are forced to go with Lyra and Will when it becomes apparent that they will not go directly to Lord Asriel willingly. They travel together to the land of the dead, helping bargain with the harpies.
Tialys dies when attacking a cliff-ghast, having dug his spurs deep into her neck. Lady Salmakia dies shortly thereafter, her short lifespan having reached its natural end.
In the TV series, Salmakia is played by Sian Clifford while Tialys doesn't appear. In the audiobooks of The Amber Spyglass, Tialys and Salmakia are played by David Timson and Denica Fairman respectively.[citation needed]
Ruta Skadi
Ruta Skadi is the Latvian witch queen, and a lover of Lord Asriel. Her dæmon is a bluethroat named Sergi. She is 416 years old in The Subtle Knife, and makes appearances in The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Her second name, "Skadi", is also that of a Nordic winter goddess.
She accompanies
In the
In the TV adaptation, Ruta Skadi is played by Jade Anouka. In the audiobooks of The Subtle Knife, she is voiced by Eve Karpf.[citation needed]
Father Gomez
Father Luis Gomez is a priest whose dæmon is a green-backed beetle. He was sent by the Magisterium to assassinate Lyra. The Angel
He is played by Jamie Ward in the TV series. In the audiobooks of The Amber Spyglass, he is played by Andrew Branch.[citation needed]
Fra Pavel
Fra Pavel Rašek is a representative and alethiometrist of the Consistorial Court of Discipline. He is said to be a thorough but sluggish reader of the truth, requiring weeks or months to take an accurate reading. He was, however, successful in obtaining information useful to the Consistorial Court in a relatively short period of time, according to Marisa Coulter. He appears to be uncomfortable when voicing potentially heretical discoveries. His dæmon takes the form of a frog.
He appears in
Introduced in The Amber Spyglass
Ama
Ama is a girl who Mrs Coulter befriended. At the time when Mrs Coulter was in hiding with an unconscious Lyra, Ama brought different supplies to Mrs Coulter.
In the TV series, Ama is played by Amber Fitzgerald-Woolfe. Because Fitzgerald-Woolfe is deaf, Ama was adapted to be a deaf girl who speaks in sign language. Mrs Coulter and Balthamos were shown to be adept in sign language when they each speak to her.
Atal
Atal is a Mulefa who befriended Mary Malone.
She is voiced by Kate Ashfield in the TV series.
Hugh MacPhail
Hugh MacPhail is a Magisterium official. He is the Father President of the Consistorial Court of Discipline. His dæmon is a lizard.
In the TV series, Hugh MacPhail is played by Dafne Keen's father Will Keen. His role has been expanded in the TV series where Mrs Coulter and Lord Boreal answer to him while his dæmon is named Octavia.
Metatron
Metatron serves as the Regent of Heaven and is the main antagonist of .
Metatron is portrayed by Alex Hassell in the TV series. In the audiobooks of The Amber Spyglass, Metatron is voiced by Stephen Greif.[citation needed]
Ogunwe
Ogunwe is an African king who becomes one of the commanders of Lord Asriel's forces. His dæmon takes the form of a cheetah.
Ogunwe is played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in the TV series, in which he is a military commander who was sprung from prison by Asriel and his Gallivespian allies.
Roke
Roke is a Gallivesparian lord who serves as Lord Asriel's spy and one of his commanders.
Roke is played by Jonathan Aris in the TV series, in which he is just a commander.
Gracious Wings
Gracious Wings, previously called No-Name, is chief of the
Gracious Wings and her fellow harpies are voiced by Emma Tate in the TV series. In the audiobooks of The Amber Spyglass, she is voiced by Jill Shilling.[citation needed]
The Authority
The Authority was the first
The angel
He ruled his various churches, organisations, and universes from the Clouded Mountain, a floating mobile city believed by many in that universe to be Heaven. As the Authority grew older and weaker, the Mountain became more and more obscured by clouds.
In his old age, the Authority appointed the
Xaphania
Xaphania is the leader of the rebel angels allied with Lord Asriel in the war against
Xaphania first appears in the third book of the trilogy,
The angel
Towards the end of the trilogy, and after the defeat of the Authority's forces, it is Xaphania who instructs Will how to seal all the windows between the worlds, to prevent Dust from leaking away into the abyss, and informs him that the Æsahættr (the Subtle Knife) must be destroyed.
In the TV adaptation, Xaphania is voiced by Sophie Okonedo in angel form during season 1 and 2 and played by Chipo Chung in season 3. Her role is expanded in the TV series, where she gives the audience information about the Subtle Knife and also speaks to Dr Mary Malone through a machine called The Cave. In the audiobooks of The Amber Spyglass, she is played by Eve Karpf.[citation needed]
Introduced in La Belle Sauvage
Malcolm Polstead
Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon Asta are eleven at the start of La Belle Sauvage. He is the protagonist of the story and is described as having "an inquisitive, kindly disposition, a stocky build, and ginger hair". His dæmon Asta has not yet settled into her final form. Malcolm is a regular visitor at the Priory of Saint Rosamund.[6]
During La Belle Sauvage, Malcolm is living and working with his parents at their tavern. He attends school locally, and the Magisterium is seen influencing the young children by inviting them into a special club intended to intimidate and inform on people and events viewed unfavourably by the Church; Malcolm manages to avoid participating. Malcolm is viewed as a helpful and friendly boy who frequently visits and helps the nuns who live at the nearby priory.[6] Malcolm becomes fascinated by the infant Lyra and becomes privy to the fact she is being secretly raised by the sisters due to the nature of her birth parents.[6] When Malcolm accidentally stumbles upon Oakley Street operatives, he begins to become involved in some spying due to wanting to protect the infant Lyra whom the Church appears to be after.[6]
Lord Asriel visits the priory and requests Malcolm's help in escaping capture after seeing the infant Lyra. Asriel has Malcolm's canoe upgraded by local Gyptians craftsmen, and leaves his card inviting Malcolm to call on him if help is needed.[6] Gyptian Farder Coram warns Malcolm of the upcoming storm, during which Malcolm goes to the priory to ensure that the infant Lyra and sisters are safe. Malcolm rescues Alice and Lyra from being kidnapped by Gerard Bonneville. Malcolm kills the violent and insane Bonneville. He and Alice take the infant Lyra to Lord Asriel.[6]
By the time of Lyra's Oxford, Malcolm is a scholar at Jordan College.
In The Secret Commonwealth, Dr Malcolm Polstead is a history scholar at Durham College, at Oxford University in Lyra's world. Asta has settled as a large ginger cat. Malcolm has been Lyra's tutor. Now, he realises that he is in love with her. He is sent by Oakley Street to investigate the phenomenon of rose oil allowing for the perception of Dust.
Gerard Bonneville
Dr Gerard Bonneville is a disgraced physicist with a hyena dæmon.[6] He studied the Rusakov field, and at some point became involved with Marisa Coulter. He was cut off from his research on Dust due to his work being labelled as heretical, and seeks to obtain Lyra to trade for the ability to work on his research again.
Although Bonneville is seen as a charming handsome man, his hyena dæmon stands out in stark contrast to his own physical appearance. People find the creature unnerving and it has an aggressive nature. Bonneville has a history of violence, is shown to be going insane, and observed to be abusive towards his own dæmon – cursing, hitting, and mutilating her by cutting off her front legs.[6] Malcolm and other characters witness some of this with revulsion, as harming one's own dæmon is considered an extremely disturbing act of self-mutilation. The text implies that Bonneville has paedophilic inclinations: Oakley Street agents discuss using Malcolm as bait to blackmail him, and he makes advances towards a fifteen-year-old Alice.[6]
In La Belle Sauvage, during the flood, Bonneville follows Malcolm, Alice, and Lyra. Bonneville attacks Alice on the steps of a mausoleum during a storm. Malcolm is forced to beat Bonneville to death with a canoe paddle. Malcolm inherits Bonneville's research notes, and an alethiometer which he gives to the Master of Jordan College, when Lord Asriel seeks academic sanctuary for the infant Lyra.[6]
Alice Parslow (Mrs Lonsdale)
Alice Parslow and her dæmon Ben are 15 in La Belle Sauvage. In The Secret Commonwealth, Alice is revealed to be the same person as Mrs Lonsdale, the housekeeper of Jordan College who is a minor character in Northern Lights, by which time she has been married and widowed, Ben has settled as a terrier.
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External links
- Philip Pullman Author's website
- HisDarkMaterials.com Publisher Random House's His Dark Materials website
- Scholastic: His Dark Materials UK publisher's website
- Randomhouse: His Dark Materials U.S. publisher's website
- BBC Radio 4's His Dark Materials site inc. Dictionary of His Dark Materials and web Q&A with Philip Pullman
- The then Archbishop of Canterbury and Philip Pullman in conversation at the National Theatre, from The Daily Telegraph
- BridgetotheStars.net Fansite for His Dark Materials and Philip Pullman
- HisDarkMaterials.org His Dark Materials fansite
- Cittagazze.com French His Dark Materials fansite