His Dark Materials RP

The show follows the orphan Lyra as she searches for a missing friend and discovers a kidnapping plot related to an invisible cosmic substance called Dust.

Dust was an elementary particle. It had different names in the different worlds of the multiverse: Dust or Rusakov Particles in Lyra's world, Shadows, Shadow-particles or dark matter in Will's world, and sraf in the mulefa world.

Dust was an elementary particle responsible for consciousness, and was, in fact, itself conscious. Dust gravitated strongly to sentient species, like humans and mulefa, and attracted to adults in particular.

Dust was produced by sentient beings by creative, interesting and introspective acts. Objects made by sentient species also attracted Dust. Dust could also be lost forever if it fell outside of the worlds, most particularly through the small gaps into the void made by windows.

Mulefa were able to see Dust with the naked eye, and as such they were able to identify other sentient and intelligent creatures. Humans were unable to see Dust with their own eyes, but could use technology such as the amber spyglass or a special emulsion used to develop photograms to view it. Humans developed ways of communicating with Dust, such as the alethiometer, the Cave and the I Ching.

Angels were beings entirely composed of Dust. The Authority was the first angel to condense this way, and claimed to those that followed that he created them. Spectres consumed the consciousness of a living person, destroying their Dust and the capacity to produce it.

The witch Serafina Pekkala would float on her cloud-pine at night and listen to the whispering that was made up of silence, and later realised she was listening to the Dust.

A dæmon /ˈdiːmən/ was the physical manifestation of a human soul in Lyra's world. Humans in other worlds had dæmons. However, they were invisible to those who had not learned the technique to see them.

Dæmons were able to hold different intuitions to their humans and reveal emotional responses to their surroundings that might not otherwise be obvious in their humans.[1] Dæmons shared the same dreams as their humans and could communicate both verbally and non-verbally with them.

Dæmons were named by the dæmons of the child's parents. During the childhood of a human, a dæmon could shapeshift into any kind of animal. This change could be due to emotion, need for a particular skill such as night-vision, or simply a whim. Frequent changing of forms and a wide variety of forms were generally thought to be a good indicator of intelligence in a child. Asta was able to add the characteristics of one animal to another form.

Uncertainty in children translated into uncertainty in which form to take. Sister Fenella did not know how dæmons were able to take forms they had never come across before but her dæmon, Geraint, used to be a mole when he was frightened. Asta believed it was a question of feeling ‘moleish’ rather than knowing about them.

When the human and their dæmon reached maturity, the dæmon would settle into a permanent form. This form represented the personality of their human. Pan was able to turn into a small dragon and both he and Salcilia could take on the form of gargoyles; it is unclear whether dæmons could settle as fictional forms, or if these abilities were a result of youthful creativity that would be lost upon reaching adulthood. It may also have been possible to assume the form of an extinct animal.

When dæmons took the form of an animal, they were never really animals, and all other animals would only be able to sense a human.

Dæmons didn't always settle into a permanent form their humans wanted. An example given by Jerry was of a sailor who couldn't leave his ship due to his dæmon settling as a dolphin, and who was only truly happy when he was finally buried at sea. Forms were sometimes linked to professions: both Mr Croker, a woodwork teacher, and Mr Taphouse, a carpenter, had woodpecker dæmons. Roofers, tilers and steeplejacks had daemons that could fly or fit in a pocket to make ladder work viable. Kerin suggested that a settled form could not be chosen, but could be ‘helped’.

A person's dæmon was usually the opposite gender. It was uncommon, but not unheard of, for a human and their dæmon to have the same gender. Bernie Johansen was a man whose dæmon was also male.[17] Simon Talbot argued that dæmons usually took the opposite gender to fulfil a sense of incompleteness, taking on a complementary gender role without introducing a complicating sexual or jealous element to relationships.[18] A dæmon of the same gender might have indicated a certain quality in a person, like homosexuality or a gift like second sight.

As a human and their dæmon were one being, it was physically and emotionally painful for them to separate too far from each other. Death usually followed such separation due to the severe trauma. The General Oblation Board attempted to perfect the intercision process, to separate the human and dæmon in a way which did not result in death. Nevertheless, this resulted in the human losing some of their willpower and vitality. Less advanced methods were used to create hollow servants called zombi.

Witches were known to be able to separate but the knowledge that humans could was less common. Will Parry and Lyra Silvertongue gained the ability after leaving their dæmons on the shore of the world of the dead, although this did not give them the longevity, power of flight or bird forms that also characterised witches. As a shaman, John Parry was also able to separate from his dæmon without great pain.

Humans were able to separate from their dæmons in moments of great necessity without dying. This allowed them to live completely independent lives in the most extreme cases. When he was eleven, Malcolm Polstead separated so that his dæmon Asta could stay to look after a baby Lyra whilst he went to help Alice Parslow fight off Bonneville.

Dr Strauss and Anthony Hassall could separate after the completing the journey akterrakeh, which Strauss believed to be the worst and most necessary thing he ever did. Dæmons felt the incredibly painful journey into Karamakan to be a great betrayal. Chen, their guide, was feared and shunned by other camel-herders for his ability to separate.

There was a dæmon trade in Seleukeia for those who had lost their own dæmon. Poor Tajiks and others in desperate situations sold their dæmons, or had them sold as children, and were then regarded with disgust and scorn for the rest of their lives. People like Chil-du and Yozdah were not even granted their own personal names, instead named after numbers (odd for women, even for men). Medical knowledge was advanced enough in Seleukeia to mean most that people survived the separation operation. There were rumours that big medical corporations were experimenting before moving into Europe and that they were powerful enough to encourage authorities to ignore any deaths and illicit trade. Among the sellers operating out of the Park Hotel was Selim Veli, who claimed satisfactory tolerance and even affection could be achieved. He boasted to have sold to Françoise Guillebaud, Amedea Cipriani and Gottfried Brande.

Taboo It was considered taboo for a person to touch another person's dæmon. Humans whose dæmons were touched by others generally felt a strong sense of repulsion. One exception was when two people touched each other's dæmons in a gesture of love, an act that marked the settling of Pantalaimon and Kirjava. Malcolm Polstead observed that the taboo appeared to be learnt, rather than instinctual, when he was touched by a baby Pantalaimon. He was shocked by the experience but felt privileged rather than disgusted.

Separation rituals The witches had a rite of passage in which the witch entered a barren land where no dæmon could enter. After doing so, the witch and her dæmon were able to separate over long distances. One such place was Tungusk in Siberia. Coram van Texel told Lyra of a gyptian man who could separate, having made the same journey as the witches in the hope that he would be able to live as long as his witch lover. He died soon after.

The Magisterium in Geneva was essentially the headquarters and ruling authority of the Holy Church. It replaced the Papacy in Lyra's world after the pope John Calvin passed away.

Any discoveries that have a bearing on the doctrines of the Church have to be announced through the Magisterium. After the existence of Dust was confirmed by an investigator of the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Magisterium decided that Dust was the physical evidence for original sin.

Every philosophical research establishment had to include on its staff a representative of the Magisterium, to act as a censor and suppress the news of any heretical discoveries.

Dust was an elementary particle. It had different names in the different worlds of the multiverse: Dust or Rusakov Particles in Lyra's world, Shadows, Shadow-particles or dark matter in Will's world, and sraf in the mulefa world. Dust was an elementary particle responsible for consciousness, and was, in fact, itself conscious. Dust gravitated strongly to sentient species, like humans and mulefa, and attracted to adults in particular.

Dust was produced by sentient beings by creative, interesting and introspective acts. Objects made by sentient species also attracted Dust. Dust could also be lost forever if it fell outside of the worlds, most particularly through the small gaps into the void made by windows.

Mulefa were able to see Dust with the naked eye, and as such they were able to identify other sentient and intelligent creatures. Humans were unable to see Dust with their own eyes, but could use technology such as the amber spyglass or a special emulsion used to develop photograms to view it. Humans developed ways of communicating with Dust, such as the alethiometer, the Cave and the I Ching.

Angels were beings entirely composed of Dust. The Authority was the first angel to condense this way, and claimed to those that followed that he created them. Spectres consumed the consciousness of a living person, destroying their Dust and the capacity to produce it.

The witch Serafina Pekkala would float on her cloud-pine at night and listen to the whispering that was made up of silence, and later realised she was listening to the Dust.