What is Will's daemon?

Will's daemon, Kirjava, settles into the form of an extraordinarily beautiful cat, which shows that Will is wise, proud, and independent. Lyra's daemon takes the form of a pine marten. Like Lyra, pine martens are rare and seem wild to outsiders, but are also sleek, graceful, and self-contained.
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What animal is Will's daemon?

Loyalty. William 'Will' Parry (born 1984) was a young boy from England, and the final bearer of the subtle knife. Although not born in Lyra's world, after he visited the land of the dead his soul became a dæmon named Kirjava. Not long afterwards, she settled as a cat at the touch of his first love, Lyra Silvertongue.
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What is Will's daemon called?

Will eventually discovers that he has a daemon named Kirjava.
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What is Lyra's final daemon?

Lyra's dæmon, Pantalaimon /ˌpæntəˈlaɪmən/, is her dearest companion, whom she calls "Pan". In common with dæmons of all children, he can take any animal form he pleases; he first appears in the story as a dark brown moth.
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Why is lyras daemon a pine marten?

They no longer like each other very much. And because Pantalaimon is part of Lyra — her soul, taking the form of a pine marten to whom she can talk — that means she no longer really likes herself.
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Why is Coulter so mean to her daemon?

Coulter hates her daemon because she hates herself. She causes her daemon pain and experiences pain herself; she berates her daemon because she can't effectively berate herself. She controls her daemon because she wants to control herself. But more often than not, her daemon acts up, exposing both himself and Mrs.
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Why can Mrs Coulter separate from her daemon?

(She clearly has inner turmoil with self hatred: hurting her own daemon/soul) Is the reason she could possibly be able to separate from her daemon because of her own suicidal nature/depression? (The comments about heights and wanting to jump...) She'd theoretically be okay if her Golden Monkey did in fact never return. ...
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Why did Pan Touch will?

Contact Between Daemons & Lovers

In fact, it's Pan who reaches out to touch Will in "Tower of the Angels," rather than the other way around. Pan reaches out to Will because he feels at ease with the boy and wants to comfort him in a time of crisis.
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What is Lyra spirit animal?

Lyra's daemon, Pantalaimon, cycles through a few shapes on any given day — a mouse when he's afraid, a wildcat when bold. In The Golden Compass, the first book of Pullman's trilogy, we first meet Pan as a moth. Eventually, Pan settles as a pine marten (I know, random).
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What does Roger's daemon settle as?

Roger's dæmon was female and named Salcilia. At the time of his death, she had not settled.
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Why is Asriel's daemon a snow leopard?

Coulter's tricky, conniving character. Lord Asriel's daemon is a snow leopard, which makes sense because he's all about power and has a really commanding personality. Lee Scoresby's is a thin, rugged hare, hinting to us that he's a scrappy survivor. What would your daemon be?
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What happens to Will's daemon?

Will's dæmon, who lives inside him, is torn away, causing him terrible pain. Lyra finds Roger's ghost and apologises before Will cuts a window back out to the world, allowing the billions of souls to be released.
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Who did Lyra betray?

Lyra and the gyptians successfully rescue Roger from Bolvangar at the end of Part 2, but ultimately Roger will become a character of sacrifice and a symbol of Lyra's (accidental) betrayal. Though Lyra's goal is to save Roger, she ends up getting him killed when she brings him along to see Lord Asriel.
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What is Mary Malone's daemon?

Serafina told Mary that her dæmon was an Alpine Chough.
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Why is Lyra so special?

In Pullman's novels, the body is not sinful or dirty, but rather a source of beauty and strength. Lyra, who is more or less raised as an orphan, has a streak of adventurousness that makes her the perfect heroine for Pullman's story.
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What is Mrs Coulter's daemon?

Mrs Coulter's dæmon takes the form of a golden monkey with long fur, who is not named in the books, but was given the name "Ozymandias" in the radio adaptation. The golden monkey is shown to be capable of going much further from Mrs Coulter than other dæmons are able to separate from their humans.
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How do you say Pantalaimon?

Pan-ta-lie-mon.
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What animals does pan change into?

Pan's Shape

Over the course of the book, Pan turns into a mouse, a moth, and many other creatures.
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What is Lyra's prophecy name?

(The TV version introduces Will's story much earlier than the books, in order to hit the ground running when he and Lyra finally meet at the beginning of series two.) So what exactly is she prophesied to do? The short answer: save the world.
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Why does the golden monkey not talk?

Because a daemon is a reflection of a person's very essence, they share most of the same personality traits. So, when a person tends to be guarded about their emotions and intentions, their daemon may remain silent in order to avoid divulging their inner thoughts and feelings to the world.
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What is the strongest daemon in His Dark Materials?

The most important daemon character in the world of His Dark Materials is Pantalaimon, or Pan for short. Pan is Lyra's daemon and, as Lyra is still a kid, he has yet to settle into a form when we first meet him.
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Is dust evil in His Dark Materials?

Dust is something to be hated and feared. However, Lyra comes to a different point of view, which by a strange coincidence is also mine: that Dust is positively good. In Northern Lights she sees the adults around her doing terrible things in the name of getting rid of dust, and comes to think that dust cannot be bad.
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Is Mrs Coulter severed?

Coulter's relationship with her daemon is an utterly normal one, and she is not severed, so this is a change made for the show. While the book series sees Lyra meet severed adults, Mrs Coulter is not one of them.
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Can Mrs Coulter control the specters in the book?

In the His Dark Materials books, Mrs Coulter tells Boreal that she's able to control the Spectres through negotiation, imparting to them the idea that she'll be able to bring them to more prey by following her.
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Who is Metatron in His Dark Materials?

Metatron was an angel, formerly known as Enoch when he was a human. He became more powerful than the Authority and seized control of the Kingdom of Heaven. He was killed by Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter as they dragged him into the Abyss.
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