<P> The search party continues towards Bolvangar, the Gobbler research station . Guided by the alethiometer, Lyra detours at a village and discovers an abandoned child who has been cut from his dæmon and who soon dies . She realises the Gobblers are experimenting on children by severing the bond between human and dæmon, a soul - splitting process called intercision . Lyra and her companions are attacked by bounty hunters, and Lyra is captured and taken to Bolvangar, where she is briefly reunited with Roger before being sent to be separated from Pantalaimon . Just before this can occur, Coulter arrives and halts the intercision process . She tells Lyra that intercision prevents the onset of troubling adult emotions, though it has not yet been perfected . </P> <P> Lyra activates Bolvangar's emergency alarm, sets the station on fire, and evacuates the children, where they are rescued by Scoresby, Iorek, the Gyptians, and the witch clan of Serafina Pekkala, who battle the station attendants as Lyra, Roger, and Iorek flee in Scoresby's hot air balloon . Lyra directs the witches to tow the balloon towards Asriel in Svalbard, but she falls out and is taken by the panserbjørne to the castle of their usurping king, Iofur Raknison . She tricks Iofur into fighting Iorek, who arrives with the others to rescue Lyra . Iorek kills Iofur and regains his place as the rightful king . </P> <P> Lyra, Iorek, and Roger continue onwards to Svalbard, where Asriel has continued his Dust research in exile . He tells Lyra all he knows of Dust: that it has spawned parallel universes, it is somehow connected to death and misery, and that the Church believes it is the physical basis of sin . He plans to visit the other universes and destroy the source of Dust . Suddenly, he severs Roger from his dæmon, killing Roger but releasing an enormous amount of energy that tears a hole in the Northern Lights to a parallel universe, through which he walks . Because Asriel believes Dust is a force of evil, the devastated Lyra decides that perhaps it is really a force of good . Vowing to stop her father, she and Pantalaimon pass through the opening in the sky . </P> <P> All humans in Northern Lights, as well as witches, have a dæmon (pronounced "demon"), which is the physical manifestation of a person's "inner being", soul, or spirit . It takes the form of a creature (moth, bird, dog, monkey, snake, etc .) and is usually the opposite sex to its human counterpart . The dæmons of children have the ability to change form - from one creature to another - but towards the end of a child's puberty, their dæmon "settles" into a permanent form, which reflects the person's personality . When a person dies, the dæmon dies too . Armoured bears, cliff ghasts and other creatures do not have dæmons . An armoured bear's armour is his soul . </P>

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