![]() ![]() In Lyra’s world, every human being has a daemon companion which takes the form of an animal. Let’s peel back the layers of our memories, dive back into the His Dark Materials trilogy (and associated spin-off novels), and revisit the wonderful world of daemons. But what’s the deal with daemons? What are they really? What kind of animals can they be? Are they just like Patronuses or what? 4, daemons are at the forefront of our minds. With the BBC and HBO’s adaptation of the books bringing the series to television for the first time on Nov. And if you don’t have an animal companion following you around at all times, author Philip Pullman describes in his first novel Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass for the states), you are grotesque and unnatural.īefore Pullman introduces fantastical airships, armored bears, and flying witches before we learn about Dust, the alethiometer, and parallel dimensions before the adventure really begins, we first meet Lyra’s daemon Pantalaimon and a few of the intricate rules surrounding daemons. ![]() The His Dark Materials trilogy starts off in a world much like our own, with one glaring exception: every human - from the moment they are born to the moment they die - is accompanied by an animal known as a daemon. ![]() “A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of nightghasts, not the waking world of sense.” - Northern Lights/The Golden Compass ![]()
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