What was lyras betrayal?

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
Lord Asriel
Lord Asriel is a character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Asriel is a member of the aristocracy in a parallel universe dominated by the Church. He 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".
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Why do Pan and Lyra hate each other?

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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What does Lyra daemon settle as?

Her dæmon was Pantalaimon, who settled as a pine marten when she was twelve years old. During her childhood, Lyra had the unique ability to read an alethiometer without formal training.
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What is the prophecy about Lyra?

The witches' prophecy states that this girl will be able to pick the "correct" cloud-pine branch out of several, as indeed Lyra does. It transpires that Lyra's destiny is to be the second Eve and fall into the temptation of the serpent, represented by Mary Malone.
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What happens to Lyra in His Dark Materials?

In the final novel, Will and Lyra discover that there is a land of the dead after Lyra continues to have dreams about Roger trapped there. Promising to help him, she and Will journey there by using the subtle knife. However, Lyra is forced to leave Pantalaimon behind, causing her immense pain.
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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 is Mrs Coulter obsessed with Lyra?

Having learned that Lyra was destined to be the new Eve – the fate of every world resting on a choice she was foretold to make – Mrs Coulter vowed to stop her daughter from bringing about another Fall. She would protect Lyra and thereby save humanity from Dust and sin.
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What is Fra Pavel secret?

Fra Pavel Rasek was an alethiometrist for the Consistorial Court of Discipline of the Magisterium. Consulting his alethiometer for Marisa Coulter, he discovered that Lyra Silvertongue was the girl from the witches' prophecy. His dæmon settled as a frog.
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Is Lyra the second Eve?

Lyra, the protagonist of the trilogy, is the second Eve. To Pullman, the original Eve depicted in Genesis was not the cause of all sin, but the source of all knowledge and awareness.
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Is Mrs Coulter evil?

Mrs. Coulter, Lyra's mother, is an almost purely evil character. Despite her charming and persuasive demeanor, Mrs. Coulter is the greediest, most power-hungry character in the trilogy.
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What was 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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Does asriel care about Lyra?

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Asriel would rarely visit and see Lyra at Jordan, but the fact that he moved Lyra to Jordan College, was horrified when he thought he would have to murder Lyra instead of Roger and then threw himself down the Abyss to save Lyra shows that he cared for her.
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Why does Mrs Coulter's daemon not speak?

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Marisa Coulter is the best example of this: because she rarely wears her emotions on her sleeve, her daemon, a golden monkey, never speaks properly and only makes animalistic noises provided by uncredited actor/puppeteer Brian Fisher on the TV adaptation.
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Does jopari have a daemon?

Colonel John Parry, also known as Doctor Stanislaus Grumman or Jopari, was the father of William Parry. He accidentally travelled to Lyra's world where he became a renowned scholar and shaman. His dæmon was called Sayan Kötör and had the form of an osprey.
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Does Lee Scoresby come back to life?

His Dark Materials: Lee Scoresby 'returns' in season 3 after tragic exit 'Really excited!'
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Who saved Lyra from father Gomez?

When the ghosts hit the air, they dissolve. In the world of the mulefa, Father Gomez kills one of the tualapi, vicious swan-like birds, and tames the rest. In Lord Asriel's world, Mrs. Coulter learns that Lyra is still alive, and that she and Will have freed the lost souls in the world of the dead.
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Who is God in His Dark Materials?

If you know nothing else about the His Dark Materials series, you may know that Lyra kills God (or allows him to die) and the book celebrates her for it. But the God of the books is in fact revealed to be no God at all but merely a very old angel, who pretended he was the Creator of all things in order gain power.
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What was lyras choice?

Like Eve in the Garden of Eden, Lyra will be presented with a choice that will determine humanity's ongoing relation to Dust, which is seen variously as sin (by the Church) and sentience (by Philip Pullman and his non-evil characters).
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Why is Lyra called silvertongue?

Lyra got her name Silvertongue from Iorek Byrnison because she was the first human to outsmart a panserbjorne. In a dispute with her father Lord Asriel, she tells him that he should no longer call her Lyra Belacqua, but Lyra Silvertongue, because this name is from a person who really loves her.
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Is Lord Asriel a villain?

Modeled after Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, Lord Asriel is the gentlemanly devil who plans to overthrow God and establish a Republic of Heaven. In other stories, Asriel would almost certainly be the villain.
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Who is the main villain in His Dark Materials?

Metatron is the Regent of Heaven and the main antagonist of the His Dark Materials trilogy.
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Did Ruta skadi sleep with Lord Asriel?

After sleeping with Asriel, Ruta flew back to the witches. On the way back, a wind hurled her into a mountain range where she took refuge.
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Why does Lord Asriel want to destroy Dust?

Asriel tells Lyra that though no one actually knows what Dust is, the Magisterium concluded that "Dust was the physical evidence for original sin" (21.98). Dust, then, is proof of humankind's inherent sinfulness. Lord Asriel wants to destroy Dust because he claims "sin and shame and death.
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Is Miss Coulter a witch?

One explanation that some fans have turned to in trying to make sense of Mrs Coulter is that she is actually a witch – that would certainly explain her ability to separate from her daemon, if nothing else.
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Why is her daemon a monkey?

Ruth Wilson plays Mrs Coulter in the 2019 BBC television adaptation. Her dæmon was changed from a Golden Monkey to a Golden snub-nosed monkey in order to better reflect the two sides of Coulter's character.
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