Lyra Belacqua (also known as Lyra Silvertongue) (born in 1984) is the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between angels and a deity called The Authority.
Lyra, age 12 at the beginning of the trilogy, is the daughter of Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter. She wa...
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Lyra Belacqua (also known as Lyra Silvertongue) (born in 1984) is the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between angels and a deity called The Authority.
Lyra, age 12 at the beginning of the trilogy, is the daughter of Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter. She was brought up at Jordan College, with the Scholars, the Professors, and the Servants all acting as a sort of collective family. She was raised believing that her father was a count and her mother a countess, that both her parents had died in an airship crash, and that Lord Asriel was her uncle. She later learned the truth from John Faa, leader of the Gyptians. Lyra lived in Oxford, running amok with her friend Roger Parslow, climbing on roofs, and leading clay fights with the college children, the "townies" of Oxford, and the Gyptians. Her life...
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