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Lyra Belacqua (Dafne Keen)

“The story revolves around Lyra,” says 14-year-old Keen (Logan) of the series’ central heroine, an orphan living among tutors at Jordan College in Oxford. Her journey — with still-evolving daemon Pantalaimon (voiced by Kit Connor), a sometimes ermine (above) that won’t settle as one creature until puberty — begins after the kidnapping of her best friend, Roger (Lewin Lloyd).

“She starts out with selfish goals, wanting to go to the north and have an adventure, but along the way discovers her real goal is to be good and make the world a better place,” adds Keen. When the resolute Lyra eventually makes her way north, she faces a dangerous organization’s child-stealing plot, rides a bear, meets witches, and much more.