![]() ![]() ![]() Her rescuer of twenty years earlier in La Belle Sauvage, Malcolm Polstead, is now an academic. Lyra is a student at St Sophia's College Oxford, but still lives at Jordan College. An important plot device is the alethiometer, a truth-telling symbol reader. In this world, humans' souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of sapient " dæmons" in animal form which accompany, aid, and comfort their humans. The setting is a world dominated by the Magisterium, an international theocracy which actively suppresses heresy. The story is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy. The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust. ![]()
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