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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Lyra, Coulter, Iorek entitled The Golden Compass
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conversations.value: The Golden Compass (film): The story takes place in an alternate world dominated by a powerful church called the Magisterium, and where part of the soul resides outside a person as an animal companion called a dæmon.\nLyra Belacqua, an orphan raised in a college in Oxford, England, and her dæmon Pantalaimon (Pan) witness a Magisterium agent poison her uncle\'s bottle of Tokay wine.\nLyra then warns her uncle, Lord Asriel, who instructs her to remain in hiding.\nLyra watches Asriel give a presentation regarding Dust, a particle that the Magisterium has forbidden the mention of.\nThe college gives Asriel a grant to fund a northern expedition.\nAt dinner, Lyra meets mrs Coulter, who insists on taking Lyra north as her assistant.\nBefore Lyra leaves, the Master of the college entrusts her with the only remaining alethiometer, a compass-like artifact that reveals the truth.\nThe Magisterium has destroyed all the others.\nHe instructs her to keep it secret, especially from mrs Coulter.\nAt mrs Coulter\'s house in a city that resembles a futuristic London, Lyra mentions \'dust\'.\nThis puts mrs Coulter on edge and she warns Lyra never to mention it again, and also insists that she leave the bag containing the aleithiometer.\nmrs Coulter\'s dæmon (a golden monkey) attacks Pan, causing Lyra to give in.\nLyra and Pan discover that mrs Coulter is head of the General Oblation Board, the "Gobblers", who have been kidnapping local children.\nShe also discovers that her best friend Roger and her Gyptian friend Billy have been taken by the Gobblers.\nLyra and Pan walk in on mrs Coulter\'s dæmon attempting to steal the alethiometer.\nThey escape into the streets.\nThe "Gobblers" pursue her, but she is saved by some Gyptians.\nAboard a Gyptian boat heading north to rescue their children, Lyra shows the alethiometer to a Gyptian wise elder, Farder Coram.\nOn deck that night Serafina Pekkala, the witch queen, tells Lyra that the missing children are in a place called Bolvangar.\nmrs Coulter sends two mechanical spy flies after Lyra.\nOne is batted away but the other is caught and sealed in a can by Farder Coram, who explains that the spy fly has a sting with a sleeping poison.\nLord Asriel is captured by Samoyed tribesmen hired by mrs Coulter but he bribes his captors into releasing him.\nAt a northern port, Lyra is befriended by a Texan aeronaut named Lee Scoresby, who advises her to hire an armoured bear.\nExiled in shame, the giant polar bear Iorek Byrnison has been tricked out of his armour by the local townspeople.\nUsing the alethiometer Lyra tells Iorek where to find his armour.\nArmoured again, the fearsome Iorek and his friend Lee Scoresby join the trek northward.\nThat night while riding on Iorek\'s back, Lyra finds a cowering and changed Billy separated from his dæmon Ratter.\nLyra reunites Billy with his mother just as the group is attacked by Samoyeds who capture Lyra.\nTaken to the armoured bear king Ragnar Sturlusson, Lyra tricks him into fighting Iorek one on one.\nAt first, Ragnar seems to have the upper hand in the fight, but Iorek eventually tricks his rival and kills him.\nHe then becomes the new king.\nIorek carries Lyra near to a thin ice bridge near Bolvangar.\nReaching the station, Lyra is taken to eat with the missing children.\nWhile hiding again Lyra discovers that the Magisterium scientists, under the guidance of mrs Coulter, are performing experiments to sever the bond between a child and his or her dæmon.\nCaught spying, Lyra and Pan are thrown in the intercision chamber, and end up unconscious from the energy force that tries to cut them.\nOn seeing Lyra in the chamber, mrs Coulter rescues her and takes her to her quarters.\nWhen Lyra wakes up she is comforted by a distraught mrs Coulter, who explains the dæmon cutting to Lyra and also tells Lyra that she is her mother.\nLyra then guesses that Lord Asriel is her father.\nWhen mrs Coulter asks for the alethiometer, Lyra gives her the can containing the spy fly.\nThe fly stings mrs Coulter, knocking her and her dæmon out.\nLyra runs to the room with the intercision machine.\nThe growing chain reaction builds as Lyra yanks a control box loose and hurls it into the intercision machine, causing it to explode.\nThis sets off a series of explosions that tear the facility apart.\nOutside, the children are attacked by Tartar mercenaries and their wolf dæmons.\nThe battle is joined by Iorek, the Gyptians, and a band of flying witches led by Serafina Pekkala.\nThe Tartars are defeated and the children are rescued.\nRather than returning south, Lyra, Roger and Iorek fly north with Lee Scoresby in search of Lord Asriel.\nUnaware that he is in mortal danger, Lord Asriel has set up a laboratory to investigate the glowing Dust from another world.