Why does boreal want the knife?

Lord Boreal and the Magisterium of the Church wanted to possess the knife because its ability to cut through any material threatened the Authority, who had survived the First Rebellion only because the rebel angels could not harm him with any existing weapon or material at the time (their fears were later confirmed ...
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What does The Subtle Knife represent?

The titular Subtle Knife is a symbol in this novel for nuance and discernment. By discernment, what is meant is telling one thing apart from a very similar thing. That act requires subtlety and precision, and since there are forces that are trying to control Lyra and her friends, they have to be covert and clever.
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What happens to Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife?

Lyra realises that Sir Charles is Lord Boreal, originally from her own world, and Will hears news of his father, who had disappeared after discovering a window between the worlds. Will and Lyra escape back to Cittàgazze with the alethiometer and are rescued from marauding children by Serafina Pekkala.
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Will Parry bearer of the knife?

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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How old is Lyra in The Subtle Knife?

Lyra Belacqua

An eleven-year old girl from Oxford, England, who is destined to be the new Eve. She is the protagonist of the trilogy.
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What happens to Lee Scoresby in His Dark Materials?

Unfortunately in the final episode, the beloved character and his Hare dæmon Hester (Cristela Alonzo) succumbed to their injuries as they fought The Magisterium to ensure Lyra completed her mission to find the meaning behind Dust.
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Why can Mrs Coulter be away from 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.
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Why can Mrs Coulter control the specters?

In the TV adaptation, Wilson's Coulter tells Boreal (Ariyon Bakare) that she's able to resist and control the Spectres thanks to her own powers of self-control, implied to be the same process she uses to separate from her daemon.
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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 Will's dæmon?

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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Is asriel evil His Dark Materials?

Musing on whether her fictional dad is good or evil, Keen told Looper: "I think Asriel truly does think he is the hero of the story and that he's the center of the situation — when in reality, he's really not. "He's part of the plot, but he's not the hero.
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Why is Lyra 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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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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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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How did John Parry summon Lee Scoresby?

Parry immediately knew that he must bring Asriel and the knife together. Later, Parry summoned Lee Scoresby to him using Lee Scoresby's mother's ring.
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Can daemons be any animal?

In childhood, daemons shapeshift at will and can be literally any type of animal. Once a person reaches adolescence, their daemon picks an animal and sticks with it. This is supposed to signify the stabilizing of one's personality into adulthood.
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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 kind of daemon is Pantalaimon?

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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Why does the Golden Monkey not talk?

Ruth Wilson, who plays Mrs Coulter, also explained why her monkey doesn't speak- the reason why no voice actor is credited in the cast list. Wilson said the silence was Marisa Coulter “silencing herself in some way,” a living symbol of her own repression.
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Why is Coulter's daemon a monkey?

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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Does Marisa Love Lyra?

Yes, she's busy kidnapping children and experimenting on them, but she genuinely loves her daughter, and is one of the only characters who explicitly chooses Lyra when given the opportunity to do so.
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How does Lyra betray Roger?

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 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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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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