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Finally, the same character introduces readers to the Church’s idea of angels. “He’s a-going to find the Authority and kill Him,” says Asreil’s servant. Given such sentiments, it’s not a shock when readers learn that Lord Asriel is planning a rebellion against the Authority himself. I’ve seen a spasm of disgust cross his face when they talk of the sacraments, and atonement, and redemption, and suchlike.” We can draw out your suffering endlessly.” Lord Asriel’s longtime servant says of his master, “Lord Asriel has never found hisself at ease with the doctrines of the Church, so to speak. We have a thousand years of experience in this Church of ours. Coulter brags about the Church’s long experience with torture: “Oh, there is more suffering to come. This volume begins to criticize more explicitly both the Church’s practices and its beliefs. Another significant new character is Mary Malone, an ex-nun turned physicist from Will’s world. Most of the supporting cast that readers met in the first book returns, and this time several important angel characters are introduced. Coulter - even as they continue to try to sort out the mystery of Dust and what role they have to play in the coming conflict.

Subtle knife in hand, Will and Lyra try to stay one step ahead of Church forces that are pursuing them, led by the wicked Mrs.

And, it turns out, it’s a weapon that could be the deciding factor in the coming war that Lord Asriel is planning against the God-like figure known as the Authority. The plot turns around Will’s discovery of the subtle knife, an implement of immense capability that allows him to cut portals between the myriad of alternate realities that exist simultaneously. They learn that the world is populated primarily by children because most of the adults have been attacked and driven away by soul-eating wraiths known as Specters. It’s not long before they find one another and begin to develop a friendship as fellow strangers in a strange land. While trying desperately to take care of his mentally ill mother and solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance 10 years before, Will stumbles into a portal to another world - the very world that Lyra entered herself at the end of The Golden Compass.

Will, like Lyra, is a headstrong 12-year-old who hails from a different world than Lyra: Late 20th-century Earth (i.e., our own world).

The second book in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy continues Lyra’s story and introduces us to the series’ other main protagonist, Will Parry.