The rose-growers' estates are being attacked by unknown "men from the mountains", and Strauss and Hassall decide to travel there. Strauss keeps this information from the Magisterium, as they will certainly consider the rose industry to be heretical. The murdered man is Roderick Hassall, a botanist, and the journal that of his colleague Dr Strauss who had been studying a commercially-important rose whose oil is connected to Dust. A ticket inside the man's wallet leads them to a rucksack containing a journal and a notebook of addresses. Her dæmon Pantalaimon disapproves of both.ĭuring a nightly excursion, Pan witnesses a man being murdered. Lyra has come to admire the works of two writers: Simon Talbot, a philosopher who asserts that rationality is all and that dæmons are a delusion and the novelist Gottfried Brande who similarly denounces everything other than pure reason. 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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