His dark materials

You are in the world of Lyra Belacqua based on the young adult novel trilo

gy “his dark materials” by

Philip Pullman. An interesting and intriguing world much like your own, yet very different. The first thing you will notice in this world is, that every human you see, has an animal by his side. Those

aren’t actual animals, but representations of a humans soul called daemons.

They are intelligent and you can talk with them (think an animal familiar but even closer). Daemons are always close to their humans only staying a few meters away at max (with the exception of witches). Each daemon takes

the form of an animal describing their humans soul the best. The daemons of children aren’t settled

yet, but ever changing from animal to animal until they reach puberty. Daemons are also in general

the opposite sex, so if you’re a female, your daemon will be a male animal. If a person dies, their

daemon dies too, only leaving behind a coin. Lyras world is otherwise a world that seems to have technology a hundred years back from hours, yet having amazing insights into some parts of particle

physics and other territories. It’s also full with various sentient and magical beings and dust is

everywhere. That basically covers the other important part of this universe: Dust is everywhere. In the whole multiverse. Not the dust you have at home, but tiny subatomic particles, being drawn to all sentient matter, originating from it and accumulating around it. They are the source and the reason for consciousness in the universe. Therefore it likes to settle on thinking beings; not settling on prepubescent children but adults and the works of the mind they create (tools and machines). In other worlds it might be called dark matter or shadows or something completely different. Anyway

it’s a form of particles that seems to even have consciousness of its own, trying to communicate with

sentient life trough ways of divination. Dust is also what connects humans to their dæmons. If the bond between a child and their dæmon is severed (as through Intercision) , both the child and the dæmon will eventually die. If the separation occurs after Dust has settled on the person (that is, after adolescence) , the person becomes a lifeless shell. Dust desperately tries to communicate, since it faces a great calamity. It flows out of the multiverse into the gap between worlds. Into the void. If this continues it might end all consciousness in the multiverse as we know it. Another thing about dust: The very first sentient being and the beings like it, called angels, are made out of dust. "The Authority, God, the Creator, the Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh, El, A donai, the King, the Father, the Almighty

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those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves

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the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed. The first angels condensed out of Dust, and the Authority was the first of them all. He told those who came after him that he had created them, but it was a lie

On Dust”

. The authority wants to prevent everyone from figuring out the truth about dust. He is the head of the church, controlling indirectly every church in every world, if that world has one. The churches agents label dust research to be heresy and link Dust to the physical explanation for original sin (since it settles on adults and not children). The church is very powerful on Lyras world, with the magisterium being the acting organ here; and many others, not so

much on Wills world (just like your own) and non present in others. Don’t expect to be safe from

them anywhere if you piss them off though. Lately the authority has been so weak that he is basically replaced by his acting regent, his right hand Metatron.

Beware: In this world it’s considered to be the absolute t aboo to touch another person’s daemon without their approval. So don’t go around petting cute doggies you sick pervert yo