<Dd> "I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness...I wanted him to find no good in me and he didn't . There is none . But I love Lyra . Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it . All I could hope was that my crimes were so monstrous that the love was no bigger than a mustard seed in the shadow of them, and I wished I'd committed even greater ones to hide it more deeply still ..." </Dd> <P> Mrs. Coulter's dæmon takes the form of a golden monkey with long fur, who is not named in the books, but was given the name "Ozymandias" in the radio adaptation . The golden monkey is shown to be capable of going much further from Mrs. Coulter than other dæmons are able to separate from their humans . How the golden monkey can go so far from Mrs. Coulter is not explained, Mrs. Coulter has not undergone any of the processes which enable other humans to achieve such separation . Her final act in the trilogy occurs when she is reconciled with Asriel, and they together drag Metatron into an endless abyss, the three thus ceasing to exist . </P> <P> In the beginning of the book The Northern Lights Marisa Coulter seems to have a keen interest in Lyra . It is then revealed that Coulter is in fact Lyra's mother by her love affair with Lord Asriel (her title of "Mrs ." comes from her marriage to Edward Coulter, who died before the events in the books .) In Northern Lights it is stated by John Faa that she fell in love with Asriel as soon as they met . </P> <P> Although throughout most of the series Lyra hates and fears her mother, Mrs Coulter repeatedly saves Lyra . At the beginning of The Northern Lights Mrs. Coulter saves Lyra from the Gobblers by taking her out of Oxford, and nearing the end of The Northern Lights, Mrs. Coulter yet again saves Lyra from having her daemon cut away (a process known as intercision). A distraught Mrs. Coulter cries out for Lyra, and Lyra passes out . When Lyra suddenly opens her eyes again, she is lying in a soft, comfortable bed . Mrs. Coulter immediately reassures Lyra she's safe and, on her daughter's instruction, explains to her gently why children have to be intercised at such a young age, commenting on their "unhappy thoughts and feelings". When Lyra asks why Mrs. Coulter herself saved her, Mrs. Coulter reveals that she is Lyra's mother . Mrs. Coulter is ultimately forced to make choice between Lyra and the church when it is revealed that Lyra is the new "Eve" whose death will be sought by the Church to prevent original sin re-entering the world . Coulter takes Lyra to a cave and keeps her drugged there at the beginning of The Amber Spyglass and ultimately saves Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife . </P>

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