daemon

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The BBC, by contrast, is seeing the epic drama through from the opening glass of tokay to the concluding moment, when Lyra's daemon mutates into a pine marten.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2020

Well, my son responded to the sights, sounds, smells, lights, queues and endless wooden-arts-and-crafts stalls as if he were my daemon.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

Lyra is no longer a child but a troubled young adult who finds herself estranged from her daemon Pantalaimon — effectively at war with herself.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

His Dark Materials Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy comes to the small screen as a series set in a world wherein every human being has an animal daemon, a manifestation of their soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2019

Lyra listened awhile, and then lay back in the deck chair with Pantalaimon curled around her neck, and thought of the grand vision the goose daemon had brought with him.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman