Lyra Belacqua

Lyra Belacqua / Lyra Silvertongue
First appearance	Northern Lights/The Golden Compass
Last appearance	Lyra's Oxford
Created by	Philip Pullman
Portrayed by	Jo Wyatt, Elaine Symons, Anna Maxwell Martin, Lulu Popplewell, Dakota Blue Richards
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Gender	Female
Family	Lord Asriel (father) Marisa Coulter (mother)
Significant other(s)	Falls in love with Will Parry, Pantalaimon, her Dæmon
Nationality	From 'Brytain', which shares many characteristics with Britain
Age	12 to 13 through the main trilogy, 15 in Lyra's Oxford
Special gifts	Ability to read the alethiometer and to lie convincingly

Lyra Belacqua /ˈlaɪrə bəˈlɑːkwə/, also known as Lyra Silvertongue (which is her preferred name), 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 Lord Asriel on the one side, and the first angel to come into being, called The Authority, and his Regent, called Metatron, on the other.

Lyra Belacqua, aged eleven at the beginning of the trilogy, is the daughter of Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter in a fictional Oxford, similar to our own. She was brought up at Jordan College, where the scholars, professors and servants treat her as an adopted daughter. She was raised believing that her parents had died in an airship crash, and that Lord Asriel was her uncle, and later learned the truth from John Faa, leader of the Gyptians. Lyra spends much of her time socialising with other children of the city, sometimes harmoniously, frequently mock-violently, and often in order to avoid schoolwork. Her closest friend among the other children is a Jordan kitchen boy named Roger Parslow, who disappears early in Northern Lights. The search to find Roger, and other children, is Lyra's motivation throughout much of Northern Lights.

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