![]() ![]() ![]() One day they are sneaking about a forbidden area where the Scholars gather to talk every evening after dinner. ![]() Her dæmon, Pantalaimon, provides her with a cautious voice of reason, as well as friendship. Lyra is an adventurous young girl who lives in Jordan College at Oxford University. As the story opens, political tensions are brewing with the Tartars, a group that resides far to the East, for mysterious reasons that have to do with new scientific discoveries in the Arctic. But when a child goes through puberty and becomes an adult, his or her dæmon settles into a permanent animal form. While humans are children these take changing animal forms. ![]() In this world, each human is accompanied by companion spirits called dæmons. It is a parallel universe, similar to our own but with key differences. The Golden Compass takes place in England, but it is not the England we know. ![]()
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