Coulter, who she learns is the leader of the Gobblers, which is formally called the General Oblation Board. Lyra sets out on an adventure to rescue Roger, but not before having to escape the guardianship of Mrs. However, shortly after, Lyra finds out that her best friend, Roger, is kidnapped by a child-snatching gang known as the Gobblers who are rumored to be experimenting on children. And, before she leaves, the college Master secretly entrusts her with a device: an alethiometer, or truth-telling device, which Lyra is inexplicably able to use with no training. Coulter, a mysterious socialite who decides that she wants Lyra to go North with her as an assistant.
Directly following the near-poisoning, which Lyra warns Asriel about, Lyra meets Mrs. Lord Asriel's work with Dust is dangerous because it undermines the power of the Magisterium, the church that rules the world Lyra lives in. In the opening of the novel, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon, aka Pan, witness her philosophical, adventurous uncle, Lord Asriel, nearly being poisoned, presumably because of his research into "Dust," the elementary particles that make up the universe and that, he believes, hold the key to interdimensional travel. Known in some markets as "Northern Lights," " The Golden Compass" introduces us to 12-year-old Lyra Belacqua, an orphan girl who lives at Oxford in a parallel world where human spirits reside in part outside of the human body in the form of an animal companion called a daemon.
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