| Lyra Silvertongue Lyra Belacqua | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Northern Lights |
| Last appearance | The Secret Commonwealth |
| Created by | Philip Pullman |
| Portrayed by | Dakota Blue Richards (film) Dafne Keen (TV series) Anna Maxwell Martin (stage) Elaine Symons (stage) |
| Voiced by | Jo Wyatt (audio) Lulu Popplewell (radio drama) Dakota Blue Richards (video game) |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Lord Asriel (father) Marisa Coulter (mother) |
| Significant other | Will Parry (His Dark Materials) Malcolm Polstead (The Secret Commonwealth) |
| Age | Less than 1 (La Belle Sauvage) around 11–13 (His Dark Materials) 15 (Lyra's Oxford) 17–18 (Serpentine) 20 (The Secret Commonwealth) |
| Dæmon | Pantalaimon "Pan" |
| Special gifts | Ability to read the alethiometer (a rare truth-telling device) and to lie convincingly |
Lyra Belacqua (/ˈlaɪrə bəˈlɑːkwə/ LY-rə bə-LAH-kwə), later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. In His Dark Materials Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between Lord Asriel on one side, and a deity figure known as The Authority and his Regent, Metatron, on the other. Lyra also features prominently in the subsequent trilogy The Book of Dust.