A rare truth-telling instrument resembling a large compass, with thirty-six symbols around its face and four hands. Thre...

A viewing instrument crafted by Mary Malone from lacquered seed-pod sap that allows the user to see Dust (sraf) directly...

Beings of pure consciousness, formed from Dust over aeons. Angels are not supernatural in the traditional sense but are ...

The first angel, an ancient being of Dust who told those who came after him that he was the Creator of all things. Over ...

The General Oblation Board's research station in the far north, where kidnapped children are subjected to intercision - ...

A city in a parallel world, also called the City of Magpies, where the subtle knife was forged. Citta'gazze has been dev...

The external physical manifestation of a person's inner self or soul in Lyra's world, taking the form of an animal. Ever...

Mysterious elementary particles that are attracted to consciousness, settling on adults and objects of human workmanship...

A branch of the Magisterium responsible for the experiments at Bolvangar, where children are separated from their daemon...

A waterborne people in Lyra's world who travel the rivers and canals of England in their narrowboats, similar to the Rom...

The horrifying process of severing the bond between a person and their daemon, developed by the General Oblation Board (...

One of the grandest and wealthiest colleges of Oxford University in Lyra's world, and Lyra's home for the first twelve y...

A grey, joyless underworld where the ghosts of all who die are confined by harpies who torment them with their worst mem...

The all-powerful religious authority in Lyra's world, a version of a Christian church that has maintained temporal as we...

A parallel world inhabited by the mulefa, gentle, intelligent creatures who use large seed-pod wheels to travel across t...

A secret intelligence network within Lyra's world that works against the Magisterium's worst excesses, named after the L...

The armoured bears, a race of sentient polar bears who live in the Arctic kingdom of Svalbard. Panserbjorne are master m...

A prophecy known to the witches that a child will play a decisive role in the fate of all worlds, and that this child mu...

The philosophical ideal articulated by Lord Asriel and ultimately embraced by Lyra: that there should be no Kingdom of H...

Invisible predatory entities in the world of Citta'gazze that feed on the Dust (consciousness) of adults, leaving them a...

A knife with two edges: one that can cut through any material in the physical world, and another that can cut windows be...

The Arctic island kingdom of the panserbjorne (armoured bears), a frozen land of ice and rock. Under the usurper king Io...

Long-lived women who can fly using branches of cloud-pine and who live in clan communities across the north of Lyra's wo...