Timeline
The Timeline is an in-depth record of all of the events that take place in His Dark Materials, in the order that they occur.
The Golden Compass | The Subtle Knife | The Amber Spyglass
Book One: The Golden Compass
-Lyra and Pan hide in the retiring room wardrobe and save Lord Asriel from a poisoning attempt.
- Flashback to various parts of Lyra's life in Jordan
-Tony Makarios is kidnapped by Mrs. Coulter
- Lyra and Roger get drunk in the cellars whilst playing "kids and gobblers"
- Lyra disturbs the coffins in the crypt, and is haunted at night by the ghosts of the dead masters.
- Lyra learns of the Gyptians when Billy Costa goes missing
- Roger is kidnapped by the gobblers
- Mrs. Coulter comes to Jordan College, meets Lyra and offers to take her to the north.
- Before Lyra leaves, the master gives her the alethiometer.
- Lyra leaves with Mrs. Coulter on a zeppelin for London.
- Coulter and Lyra shop for supplies, visit people, and have parties for a few weeks in London.
- Lyra begins to fear Coulter, and flees during a cocktail party.
- Lyra is nearly kidnapped on the streets of London, but she is rescued by Tony Costa and his gyptian friends, Jaxer and Kerim.
- Lyra goes with the Costas to the zaal.
- Lyra Meets Farder Coram and John Faa, who give her insight into how to read the alethiometer.
- The gyptians decide to send an expedition to the North to rescue the children.
- Lyra uses the alethiometer to predict the death of the gyptian spy leader, Benjamin de Ruyter.
- Mechanical insects are sent by Coulter to find and perhaps kill Lyra. The tillerman's daemon chases one away, while the other is trapped in a can by Farder Coram.
- The gyptians and Lyra journey north to Trollesund, where they meet with the consul of the witches for information.
- They meet Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, and Lee Scoresby the Texan aeronaut.
- Lyra uses the alethiometer to find the location of Iorek's armor, which he then recovers. Iorek and Lee then join the gyptians and Lyra on their journey to rescue the children.
- The gyptians, along with Lyra, Lee, and Iorek continue on their journey. The alethiometer informs Lyra that she must travel to a nearby northern village. With John Faa's permission, Iorek takes her there. She finds Tony Makarios, whose daemon Ratter has been cut away from him at Bolvangar, exposing her to the horrors that are being performed there.
-Lyra and Iorek take Tony back with them, but he dies in the night.
- The gyptians are ambushed by samoyed hunters, who kidnap Lyra and take her to Bolvangar.
- Lyra pretends to be Lizzie Brooks, so that no one at the station will recognize the name of Mrs. Coulter's daughter.
-Lyra meets the other children at Bolvangar, including Roger and Billy Costa. No one knows for sure what is done to the children at Bolvangar, but many of the children have suspicions
- The doctors take measurements of Lyra and Pan, supposedly about the amount of Dust that has accumulated near them. However, the tests are interrupted by a fire drill.
-Lyra uses the fire drill to find the daemon cages, which she opens with the help of Serafina Pekkala's daemon, Kaisa.
- Mrs. Coulter arrives at Bolvangar
- That night Lyra sneaks into the ceiling and overhears a conversation about the silver guillotine. She makes a noise and is heard.
- The men who were speaking pull Lyra down and decide that she and Pan she be cut then and there, since she heard too much.
-Lyra and Pan are forced into the separate cages of the silver guillotine, and the blade is about to be lowered when Mrs. Coulter comes in and saves her.
- Lyra makes up a story to tell to Mrs. Coulter about how she arrived there.
- Coulter accidentally lets loose one of the spy-flys in Lyra's pouch, giving Lyra a chance to escape.
- Lyra sets off a few fire alarms to cause confusion, and she also sets a fire in the kitchen by turning on gas valves, lighting a match and breaking a sack of flour which exploded.
- Lyra escaped with a group of other children out into the cold.
- The Tartar guards nearly stop them, but the children are able to blind them by throwing snowballs at their faces.
- Iorek, the witches, and the gyptians arrive just in time, and fight the guards.
-Lyra and Roger are taken by witches into Lee Scoresby's balloon, along with Iorek, while the other children are taken by the gyptians.
- The witches pull the balloon and its passengers near Svalbard, the kingdom of the armored bears.
- Cliff-ghasts attack the balloon, causing Lyra to fall out near Svalbard. Iorek and Roger fall out further away, while Lee stays in the balloon.
- Lyra is captured by a bear on patrol from Svalbard, and she is soon imprisoned there with the scholar, Jotham Sant'elia.
- Lyra convinces a guard that she must see the king of the bears, Iofur Raknison.
-She is taken before the king, and pretends to be the daemon of Iorek. She says that she wishes to be Iofur's daemon instead, but that he must fight Iorek to have her. Using the alethiometer, Lyra answers Iofur's questions correctly, convincing him to do as she says.
- Iorek arrives at Svalbard. Lyra tells him that she has tricked Iofur into fighting him, but she is afraid it isn't enough. He tells her that to fight Iofur is all he wanted, and he gives her the name "Silvertongue" for her ability at deceit.
-Iorek fights Iofur to determine who will be king of the bears. After a long fight in which it appears Iorek will lose, Iofur is finally defeated by another trick. Iorek kills him.
-Iorek orders the bears to tear down the gaudy palace that Iofur has built, and they do so. He then takes Lyra and Roger to the house where Lord Asriel is staying.
-Asriel is distressed to see her, but then calms down once he sees that Roger is with her as well. Lyra is puzzled by the way that he acts.
- Lyra and Roger rest at Asriel's house, but when Lyra wakes, she finds that Asriel has taken Roger on a dogsled.
- Lyra, riding Iorek, follows them, but Mrs. Coulter and some of her troops were coming for Asriel, forcing Iorek and the other bears to fight her, while Lyra goes on alone.
- Lyra finds Asriel and Roger, and tries to help Roger escape, but Asriel is too strong for them. Using his instruments to harness the power in the Aurora Borealis, Asriel cuts the bond between Roger and his daemon, which kills him. The release of energy causes a massive window to be opened through the aurora into a parallel world.
- Mrs. Coulter arrives, and Lord Asriel tries to convince her to come with him into the new world, but she refuses. They embrace and kiss, and Lyra is amazed to see her parents together again. Asriel goes into the new world, while Coulter heads back down the mountain.
-Lyra decides that she and Pan should also go into the new world, and as they cross the Bridge To The Stars, book one ends.
Book Two: The Subtle Knife
-Will drops his mother off at Mrs. Cooper's house.
- Returns to his house to look for the green leather case
- The two men break in, looking for the letters from Will's father.
- Flashback to Will's childhood, background about his mother
- Will runs away, eventually arriving in Oxford.
- He stops to rest on a street outside of Oxford that is lined with Hornbeam trees. He sees a tabby, and watches as she wanders through a window to another world. He decides to follow.
- Will wanders around Cittagazze for a bit, then enters one of the houses.
- In the house, he is attacked by a girl, who soon stops once she realizes that he means her no harm. She tells him that her name is Lyra Silvertongue, and that she is from another world, just like he is.
- The two children settle down for the night in the house, and decide to go back to Will's Oxford in the morning.
- Serafina Pekkala listens in on the torture of a witch by Mrs. Coulter. The witch almost reveals what she knows about Lyra, but Serafina Pekkala kills her before she does.
- Serafina Pekkala goes to Dr. Lanselius, discusses with him the events that have taken place. She then comes across Thorold, still defending Lord Asriel's house in the north, who tells her what Lord Asriel intends to do.
-Serafina finds the rest of her clan, and Lee Scoresby as well. They hold a witch council, and the witch Ruta Skadi tells them of the Church, and why Asriel wishes to overthrow it. Scoresby decides to go after Nova Zembla, and Pekkala gives him a flower that he can use to summon her if he needs to.
-Back in Cittagazze, Will and Lyra are preparing to go back through the window when they meet Angelica and Paolo, two inhabitants of Cittagazze, they learn from them a little about Cittagazze and the specters.
- Will and Lyra go back through the window. Lyra steps right out into the middle of the street, and is hit by a car. She isn't hurt, although a little dazed, and they two children make their way carefully away from the scene, trying to blend in.
-Lyra discovers that Jordan College doesn't even exist in Will's Oxford.
- Will contacts Mr. Perkins, his father's lawyer, using a pay phone in Oxford. He tries to find out about his father, but Perkins won't say anything unless he comes in person, which Will can't do.
-Lyra goes to the museum with the trepanned skulls, where she meets Sir. Charles Latrom (Lord Boreal)
-Will goes to the library to find articles on his father's disappearance, but isn't very successful.
- Lyra meets with Mary Malone, a physicist studying Dark Matter, or Dust.
-Will and Lyra go to a cinema to rest.
-Lyra tells Will her story.
-The two go back to Cittagazze for the night, and they come across Angelica and Paolo and some other children throwing stones at a cat. Will stops them, and Pan frightens them away by turning into a leopard. Lyra catches a glimpse of Tullio.
-Will read the letters from his father, realizes that he too went through a window.
-Lee Scoresby tries to track down Stanislaus Grumman in the North.
-Serafina and her witches travel into Cittagazze, where they witness the specters attacking a group of people. A man and a woman escape on horseback, and Serafina is able to learn from him about Cittagazze.
-Lyra goes back to Dr. Malone, but there are police there, and they are looking for Will. Lyra accidentally mentions him, and realizing her mistake, she escapes.
- Sir Charles gives Lyra a lift in his Rolls-Royce, but manages to steal the alethiometer from her.
-Lyra and Will go to Sir Charles's house to get back the alethiometer, but Sir. Charles tells them that if they want it back, they must bring him the subtle knife from the Torre Degli Angeli in Cittagazze.
-They go to the Torre Degli Angeli and fight Tullio, who has stolen the knife from the knife-bearer. Will defeats Tullio, but during the fight he loses his left little finger and his left ring finger, which marks him as the rightful bearer of the knife.
-Giacomo Paradisi, the former bearer, bandages Will's hand and teaches him how to use the knife to make windows.
-Will uses the knife to cut a window inside of Sir. Charles's house. Mrs. Coulter is there with him. Lyra distracts them by throwing some stones at the window, and Will is able to snatch the alethiometer and shut the window before they can stop him.
-Lee Scoresby finally meets up with Stanislaus Grumman, who tells him that he intends to help Asriel by finding whoever has the subtle knife. Lee agrees to help him, if he will promise to protect Lyra once he has the knife.
-Lee and Grumman set out for Cittagazze in Lee's balloon.
-The children of Cittagazze, angered that Will caused Tullio to become victim to the specters, attempt to kill him and Lyra.
-Will and Lyra run to a temple like structure and climb to the second story. The children are about to climb up when Serafina Pekkala and her witches appear and save Will and Lyra.
-The witches take the two children back to the cave where they are camped, and attempt to heal Will's wounded hand, but fail.
-Dr. Malone receives and offer from Sir. Charles to continue the dark matter research if she does what he wants. She refuses, and comes back that night, sensing that her colleagues will accept, and she will be out of a job. She uses the computer to communicate with Dust as Lyra told her, and she is told that she must play the serpent. The angels, which are also Dust and dark matter, tell her about the window and that she must destroy the equipment. She does so, and goes through the window into Cittagazze.
-Will, Lyra, and the witches travel through Cittagazze for awhile. One night Ruta Skadi returns to them, with tales of what Lord Asriel is doing. She tells them also that she heard an old cliff-ghast say that Asriel needed one thing to win: Æsahættr.
-Late that night, Serafina and Ruta see a group of angels, pilgrims, who have come to see Will and Lyra in their sleep. The angels soon leave, but their presence indicates even more to the witches that the two children have some great task to accomplish.
-Lee and Grumman find themselves being followed by zeppelins. Lee is forced to land the balloon in a forest. Grumman, being a shaman, uses his powers to destroy three of the four pursuing zeppelins, but is unable to bring down the final one.
-The last zeppelin finally sights them, and Lee and Grumman run. They arrive at the mouth of a gulch, and Lee tells Grumman to get to the other end while he holds off the soldiers.
-Lee is able to hold off the twenty-five soldiers with his old Winchester rifle. He is hit a few times however, and he dies.
-The witch, Lena Feldt, is captured by Coulter, and gives away who Lyra is. The specters then attack her.
-Will wanders away from the camp in the night, and is attacked by a man. The man stops fighting him though, when he sees that Will's fingers are missing, meaning his is the knife bearer. The man, who is Stanislaus Grumman, who is John Parry, Will's father, heals Will's hand with a bloodmoss salve, and tells him that he must take the knife to Lord Asriel.
-John Parry pulls out his lantern before they part, to see who it is whom is talking to. In that moment, the two realize who the other is- and out of the darkness, an arrow kills John Parry. It is the witch who loved him, and vowed revenge when he turned her down. When Will tells her that the man was his father, she kills herself.
-Will takes his father's cloak, and his deerskin pack, and returns to the camp. Before he gets back, he is met by two angels, who have come to take him to Lord Asriel. He says he will go, but he must tell Lyra. He returns to the camp, but there is no one there- a few dead witches who were attacked by specters lie on the ground. All that is left is Lyra's rucksack, with the alethiometer still inside. The angels urge a very confused and frightened Will to come with them as book two ends.
Book Three: The Amber Spyglass
-Ama comes to Mrs. Coulter in the Himalayan cave, and sees Lyra, who has been drugged asleep by her mother.
-Lyra dreams of Roger in the Land of the Dead.
-Will convinces the two angels, Balthamos and Baruch, to help him find Lyra before going to Lord Asriel.
- Baruch flies ahead in pursuit of Mrs. Coulter, while Balthamos journeys with Will.
-Baruch returns and tells Will about the cave where Coulter has taken Lyra. He draws maps in the dirt, which Will copies into a notebook.
-Another angel, a servant of the Authority, attacks them and calls for the Lord Regent, Metatron, to help him. Will cuts him with the knife, which kills him. Before Metatron can arrive, Will cuts a window into another world and they are able to escape.
-More of Lyra's dream about Roger
-Serafina Pekkala meets with Iorek Byrnison and tells him that Lee Scoresby is dead.
-Iorek goes to the gulch where Lee died, and to honor his dead comrade, he eats the body.
-More of Lyra's dream about Roger
-Ama goes to the healer, Pagdzin tulku, to get something that will wake Lyra from her sleep. Thinking that she will wake Lyra on her own, Ama sneaks into the cave when Coulter is gone. However, Mrs. Coulter returns before Ama can do anything. She hides, and watches as Lyra wakes up, and Coulter forces her to drink more of the drug that keeps her asleep. Ama vows to herself that she will wake Lyra as soon as Coulter is gone. -More of Lyra's dream about Roger
-Baruch is pursued by enemy angels, and injured. He is found by Lord Asriel's scouts, but he is injured.
-Baruch is taken on a stretcher to Lord Asriel in the Adamant Tower. He tells Asriel about Metatron, the subtle knife, and Will before he drifts apart.
-More of Lyra's dream about Roger
-The Consistorial Court of Discipline hears the report from Fra Pavel that Lyra is in the position of Eve.
-Afterwards, the president of the Consistorial Court sends Father Gomez on a mission to kill Lyra before she can be tempted.
-Dr. Cooper from Bolvangar is interrogated in the cellars.
-The two gallivespian spies in Geneva, the Chevalier Tialys and the Lady Salmakia meet and exchange information.
-More of Lyra's dream about Roger
-Mary Malone traveled through the world of Cittagazze, and after consulting the I Ching, found a window into a different world.
-Mary meets a group of strange creatures that ride on wheels, and are called Mulefa. She attempts to communicate, and finds that they are certainly intelligent. One of them gestures that it will carry her, and she finds herself riding it across the open plain of the new world. -The end of Lyra's dream about Roger.
-Balthamos feels the death of Baruch, but is forced to endure the pain of it, for he must play the part of Will's daemon as they arrive at a village in the Himalayas.
-Will meets the priest of Kholodnoye, whose name is Otyets Semyon. The priest gives him directions to find a steamer to take him closer to the cave, and then makes him drink a glass of vodka before he goes.
-Will meets Iorek Byrnison, who is trying to get fuel for his ship, but the villagers won't let him have it. The bears are preparing to fight, but Will challenges Iorek to single combat. Iorek says it would be shameful to fight him, since he is so small. Will agrees, and asks for a piece of Iorek's armor for protection. Iorek gives him his helmet, and Will demonstrates what the knife can do by chopping the helmet to pieces. Iorek cannot fight that, so he gives in. Will arranges with the villagers that the bears can buy fuel peacefully, and everyone is kept safe.
-Will goes with Iorek on the ship, to find the cave where Lyra is still drugged asleep.
-The Consistorial Court and the Society of the Work of the Holy Spirit pooled their knowledge and determined where Lyra was. They sent a battalion of the Swiss Guard onboard zeppelins to take the cave, capture Lyra and Coulter, and fight off Lord Asriel's rescue force.
-Father Gomez travels through Cittagazze, and through the window into the world of the Mulefa.
-Mary lives with the Mulefa and begins to comprehend their language, and learn more about their culture.
-The Tualapi make their first appearance, and destroy the Mulefa village.
-Ama meets Will and Iorek, and leads Will to the cave where Lyra is asleep.
-Will confronts Mrs. Coulter
-Tialys and Salmakia, on the approaching zeppelins, hatch their dragonfly steeds and prepare to protect Lyra against the forces of the Consistorial Court of Discipline.
-Using the knife, Will cuts a window into the cave and takes Ama with him to wake Lyra up with the powder. The two forces have now arrived, and gunfire erupts in the valley as they struggle to get to the cave first.
-Will attempts to cut a window out of the cave again, but as he does so, he sees Mrs. Coulter and is reminded of his own mother. His mind leaves the knife, and the knife shatters into seven pieces.
-Tialys and Salmakia arrive and protect Will and Lyra as they make for the remaining window.
-Three Swiss soldiers appear, and Balthamos attacks them. The men's daemons fight back, and in fear, Balthamos flies away. Will shoots one of the men with Mrs. Coulter's gun, while the two gallivespians kill the other two men.
-They make it through the window safe, and Will tells Lyra all that happened while she was asleep, and she tells Will about her dream, and that they must go to the land of the dead.
-Will brings the broken knife to Iorek, who mends it, although he is reluctant to do so.
-Mrs. Coulter is held captive by Lord Asriel, who allows her to listen in on his meeting with his commanders. He shows her his newest invention, the Intention Craft.
-Coulter steals the Intention Craft and takes it to the Consistorial Court of Discipline, but Asriel's gallivepsian spy, Lord Roke, managed to get onboard before Coulter could escape.
-Mary Malone constructs the amber spyglass in the mulefa world in order to see Dust.
-Sattamax, the mulefa leader, charges Mary with the duty of finding why Dust is disappearing, and how it can be stopped.
-Will, Lyra, and the gallivespians enter a new world where people have just been killed by soldiers. Will feels about with the knife and finds a different feeling world than the others- he tries it out, and it is exactly like this one, only the dead people are ghosts. The children and the spies follow the newly dead ghosts to the suburbs of the dead, but are not allowed to pass since they are still alive.
-They find a family that is also still alive, and join them for the night. The family tells them about deaths, which are creatures like daemons who follow you around all of your life, and when it is time for you to die, they show you the way.
-Mary climbs one of the massive wheel-pod trees to study Dust. She sees that it is flowing away, out to the sea.
-Lyra's death leads her and the others to the lake bordering the land of the dead. Once there, he vanishes, and a boatsman rows up to take them across. However, he won't allow them to bring daemons along, and tells Lyra that Pan must stay behind. With great reluctance, she leaves him behind on the shore, and they all set off across the lake.
-Once across, the harpies try to prevent them from going through the door. Lyra offers to tell them a story, and they allow her to- she tells them one of her lies, and they attack because they know it is false. The children and the spies manage to get through anyway, although Lyra is bleeding from her forehead.
-They encounter all of the ghosts, who have no more substance than fog, and can do no more than whisper. They tell the ghosts that they are looking for Roger, and the ghosts pass along the message until he is found. The ghosts lead them to him
-They find Roger at last and speak to him.
- The harpies come then, and tell the ghosts that Will and Lyra mean to set them free- but the harpies say that they will now hurt and torment every ghost that is in the land of the dead because of this bold plan. Once this is said, they begin to fly away.
-Will calls them back and makes a bargain with them: all of the ghosts must tell the harpies a true story about their life, and in turn the harpies will lead the ghosts to the window out of the land of the dead.
-No-Name the harpy then lead them and all the ghosts to a higher part of the world, where they can cut a window out.
-Mrs. Coulter, in Geneva, gives herself up to the Consistorial Court in an attempt to trick them and find out what they mean to do to Lyra.
-Brother Louis, one of the priests of the Court, steals Coulter's locket, which has a lock of Lyra's hair in it. The Court has a new type of bomb that will destroy the source of genetic material, and a sample of hair works best. Lord Roke spies on them as they explain the process to Father MacPhail. Roke attacks Dr. Cooper, who is carrying the hair, and brings it back to Coulter.
-Coulter tells Roke that not all of the hair is there- MacPhail still has some, and one piece is enough to use the bomb.
-MacPhail takes Coulter to the power plant at Saint-Jean-Les-Eaux, in order to obtain enough power to set off the bomb. -With Roke's help, Coulter manages to escape.
-The bomb requires the process of severing a person from their daemon- Macphail meant to use Coulter for this, but since she escaped, he sacrifices himself. The bomb goes off.
-Asriel comes with the Intention Craft and saves Coulter- Lord Roke was killed in the fighting.
-Lyra and the others are still making their way through the land of the dead when Lee Scoresby's ghost appears and tells Will that he must cut off Lyra's hair at the point where a lock has been cut away. Without questioning this, Will does so and quickly cuts a window into another world, carves a niche in the rock, and puts the hair there, then closes the window again.
-Just in time, for the bomb goes off a moment later. It does not harm Lyra, but it opens a vast, bottomless abyss in the world of the dead, where all the Dust flows into.
-Lyra runs along the edge of the abyss in a moment of Lyraness and spontaneous carelessness. She slips and falls, but No-Name the harpy catches her.
-At last they are high enough for Will to cut a window, and he does so- into the world of the Mulefa. The first ghost out is Roger, and with a burst of happiness, he disappears and becomes part of the universe.
-Mary builds a platform in the wheel-pod tree and sees that the flow of Dust is getting faster and stronger- it's now a flood.
-Gomez sees the Tualapi birds and makes them fear him so they will do whatever he wants.
-Asriel and his forces prepare for the great battle with the Authority, and they also begin the search for Lyra and Will's daemons (for Will had a daemon like Lyra, only his was but a silent voice in his mind).
-Asriel and Coulter talk about Lyra, about what she's done, and what part she still has to play in the great scheme of things.
-Will and Lyra go with the ghosts of Lee and Grumman and other soldiers into the world where the battle will take place. Before leaving, Lyra bids farewell to No-Name, and gives her the name Gracious Wings to thank her for her help.
-Lyra and Will go with the gallivespians in search of their daemons in that world, during the battle.
-Coulter flies the Intention Craft to the Clouded Mountain, and convinces Metatron that she can deliver Asriel to him.
-Xaphania shows Lord Asriel a window that she found leading to the land of the dead, near where the abyss was. He goes to see it, and the flow of Dust.
-Lyra, Will and the gallivespians stumble upon a group of cliff-ghasts, who are surrounding a crystal litter.
-Coulter leads Metatron down into the land of the dead by the Abyss where Asriel is. She goes on ahead, telling the Regent to wait in the shadows. She tells Asriel what she has done, and they quickly plot to force him into the Abyss.
-Metatron comes down to them, and the two lovers set upon him- it is a long fight, and it is nearly lost, but Coulter and Asriel manage to pull the struggling angel down into the Abyss, and together they all fall into the void.
-Will and Lyra fight off the cliff-ghasts, but Tialys dies in the fight. They find that in the crystal litter is the Authority, so frail that when they help him out, the breeze causes him to drift apart like the ghosts did.
-Madame Oxential comes with hundreds of gallivespians to protect Will and Lyra and lead them safely to their daemons. Salmakia dies once she is certain that they are safe.
-They see Iorek, and Will frees him from a net with the knife. More bears arrive and join the battle.
-Lee's ghost leads them to their daemons, as they fight off specters with the knife.
-In the confusion, both pick up the other's daemon, and feel a shock of excitement at the feeling. They escape into a window after bidding goodbye to Lee and John Parry.
-In the morning, Will and Lyra find themselves in the world of the mulefa- who take them to Dr. Malone.
-Mary rides away with the mulefa to see the procession of ghosts as they leave the world of the dead. One of them tells her "Tell Them Stories." -Mary listens to the story that Will and Lyra tell her.
-That night she tells them the marzipan story.
-Later on, Mary goes for a walk and sees her tree fall. When she returns, she sees Gomez on the tualapi he searches around, then leaves again.
-Will and Lyra go out the next morning to search for their daemons, despite Mary warning them that she saw a man with a gun the night before.
-Gomez follows them, but his daemon is trapped by Balthamos, who leads him away to protect Will and Lyra.
-Lyra and Will eat lunch in a grove of trees, and it is then that Lyra gives Will a little red fruit, as Mary told them about when she fell in love. They both then realize that they love each other, and say so, and kiss.
-Gomez almost catches the angel, but he falls through him and into a little stream. Balthamos forces his head under the water and drowns him. Balthamos then vanishes, for he lost the will to live when Baruch died.
-Serafina Pekkala finds the daemons and tells them many things. She names Will's daemon Kirjava. She leaves them then and goes to Mary and tells her things as well, then returns to the Gyptians on a boat.
-Will and Lyra go out again the next day, and this time they meet Pan and Kirjava on the dunes by the sea, and there they are told that they must part, and live each in their separate worlds, and no windows must remain open. Lyra tries the alethiometer for an answer, but it no longer works for her. Xaphania comes to them then, and asks Will if he will show her how to close a window, for it is the angels who will close them all. He agrees, and does so.
-Lyra and Will then hold each others daemons, and from then on, neither will change form again, after feeling a lover's touch.
-The gyptians arrive to take them home, and all bid farewell to the mulefa, who give Mary a few seeds for the wheel-pod trees as a parting gift.
-The sail to Cittagazze through the vast windows still open from Asriel's blasting of the aurora, and go through the window back into Will's Oxford. Serafina teaches Mary how to see her daemon on the way. Once in Will's Oxford, Lyra leads them to the Botanic Garden, and a certain bench that exists also in her world. She and Will vow to go to that bench in their separate worlds on midsummer's day at noon, for as long as they live.
-At last, they return to the window, and Lyra goes through while Will remains behind and closes it, parting them forever.
-Will then breaks the knife so that he won't be tempted to use it, by thinking of Lyra and cutting at the same time.
-He goes with Mary, who offers to help him get everything in order.
-Back in Lyra's world, she tells her story to the Master of Jordan and Dame Hannah, who give her suggestions about what she can do now that she is home. They also give her her own key to the garden, so she can go whenever she wants to.
-Late one night she and Pan are sitting on the bench, talking and listening to the bells of Oxford and a nightingale in the garden. Lyra knows now that she must build the Republic of Heaven in the here and the now, and with this knowledge, The Amber Spyglass and His Dark Materials ends at last.