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	Lord Asriel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lord Asriel is a major character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series.
		Asriel is a member of the English aristocracy in a parallel universe dominated by an oppressive version of the Christian Church.
		Throughout the trilogy, meetings between Asriel and his daughter are sparse, and when they do occur, he is terse and rude, seeming to think of her as a pest, and not at all as a daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Asriel (803 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass
		He tells Lord Asriel that God now lives in a crystal chamber inside his roaming castle (which is called the Chariot or the Clouded Mountain) and that Metatron is the one who actually rules.
		She convinces Lord Asriel’s allies that she is trustworthy in order to learn what they are planning, and then she steals their Intention Craft and flies back to the Consistorial Court.
		Lord Asriel and King Ogunwe discover that the Clouded Mountain, which is also called the Chariot, is approaching Lord Asriel’s fortress.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/section3.rhtml (6039 words)

	Lord Asriel - His Dark Materials Wiki \| BridgeToTheStars.net
		And through all this Lyra sees Lord Asriel at first as her uncle, and then once she has been told the truth, her father.
		When Asriel realizes that although he is able to overthrow the Authority, he cannot replace the Kingdom with a Republic, he and his lover, Lyra's mother, Mrs.
		Asriel's dream for a Republic cannot be built as a physical world, but must instead be constructed in the hearts and minds of every living being.
	bridgetothestars.net /wiki/index.php?title=Lord_Asriel&printable=yes (289 words)

	eReader.com: Excerpt from The Golden Compass
		She knew that both Lord Asriel and the Master were members of the Cabinet Council, the Prime Minister's special advisory body, so it might have been something to do with that; but meetings of the Cabinet Council were held in the palace, not in the Retiring Room of Jordan College.
		Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter.
		Lord Asriel stood by the fire sipping the last of the coffee and watching darkly as Thorold opened the case of the projecting lantern and uncapped the lens before checking the oil tank.
	www.ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/4006 (3632 words)

	The Subtle Knife Summary
		Asriel, and indeed many races including many angels, all believe that 'God', 'The Authority', is a corrupt, oppressive force that the multiverse should be without.
		Serafina the witch-Queen leads her clan of witches through Lord Asriel's hole in the sky—a hole we now see is similar to the windows that John and Will Parry found—and they enter Cittàgazze as well, to search for and protect Lyra.
		Ruta Skadi returns, and reports that, besides sleeping with Lord Asriel (for they used to be lovers, before Marisa Coulter came along), Asriel's fortress is beyond comprehension, it is so vast, likewise with his army.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Subtle_Knife (3946 words)

	Characters
		It is used in the Bible (Genesis 6:4) to indicate either angels (the literal interpretation), or as a metaphor for the human rulers or lords of the land.
		Lord Asriel - Azrael was an angel who is said to herald the coming of the Apocalypse.
		Balthamos- 'bal' means lord, 'thamos' seems to be related the Greek lettering 'ammos'- which means sand, but then it can also be just written as 'thamos' and can stand for a hiding- or anything that is hidden or secret.
	www.geocities.com /torre_degli_angeli/characters.htm (629 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: Character List
		Lord Asriel masquerades as Lyra’s uncle early on in the trilogy.
		Coulter is the head of the General Oblation Board (Gobblers), the former lover of Lord Asriel, Lyra’s father, and the current lover of Lord Boreal.
		Roger is kidnapped by the Gobblers and killed by Lord Asriel.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/characters.html (1262 words)

	Characters - The Golden Compass
		Lord Asriel, who is really Lyra's father, is a rich and powerful man searching for a way to open a gateway into another world.
		Lord Faa is the leader of the gyptians...
		He helps Lyra and a few others reach the castle where Lord Asriel is supposedly being held in book one, but his main purpose in the trilogy is to deliever John Parry to Will unharmed, and he does so with fierce determination.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/CharactersOfTGC.html (922 words)

	His Dark Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Through the gyptian elders, Lord Faa and Farder Coram, Lyra is bewildered to learn that her parents are Lord Asriel and Mrs.
		Lord Asriel has experimented with Dust as well, and has discovered its role in crossing the barriers into other worlds.
		Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, The Amber Spyglass introduces a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spy-master to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel.
	www.timothydalton.com /his_dark_materials.htm (3434 words)

	The Amber Spyglass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baruch reaches Lord Asriel's fortress, though he has been attacked by angels loyal to the Authority, and is weak and dying.
		Back in Lord Asriel's fortress, a tower of adamant, he sends out a small army of gyropters to where Lyra is being held, to counterattack the army of zeppelins from the Consistorial Court.
		Asriel is quick; he sends his chief Gallivespian spy, Lord Roke, after her, and Lord Roke manages to get into her craft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Amber_Spyglass (2322 words)

	Ex Libris - Volume 14, Issue 6
		In the climax of the novel, we see Asriel is a villain; he tortures Roger to death and uses the energy to build a bridge into another universe.
		Lord Asriel's armies grow in size and attack the "Clouded Mountain" of God.
		Lord Asriel and his forces win the battle against God's mountain in the space of about fifteen pages, and the rest of the book is concerned with fixing the problems Asriel helped cause when he opened a bridge between the worlds.
	www.credenda.org /issues/14-6exlibris.php (1770 words)

	Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Lord Asriel is massing his armies for his battle with Heaven, and two lesser angels, Balthemos and Baruch, approach Will Parry.
		They want him to deliver the subtle knife to Lord Asriel, but Will wants to find Lyra, who has been abducted from where she slept.
		The battle for Heaven continues, pitting Lord Asriel and the rebel angels and allies against the Authority -- the first angel who then presumed himself Creator -- and the Authority's Regent, Metatron, a strong and brutal angel determined to institute total control over humanity through offices of the Church.
	www.rambles.net /pullman_amber.html (464 words)

	The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials 1 by Philip Pullman Detailed Book Review
		Lord Asriel evades this sinister plot, and after he leaves the headmaster, he gives Lyra a strange object, an alethiometer, which can predict the future.
		One day, in hiding, she overhears her powerful uncle, Lord Asriel, tell of a city in the sky, in the Aurora Borealis, and of Dust that travels between the city and earth.
		At the age of eleven, Lyra, who assumes herself to be an oprhan taken in by the scholars in an alternate version of Oxford learns of her infulential parents and is drawn by her destiny into the mysterious and cruel actions of the church.
	www.allscifi.com /topics/info_1733.asp (871 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Golden Compass (Northern Lights) / Philip Pullman
		Dust is thought by Lord Asriel and others to be a link to another world, perhaps another whole universe, and yet the Papacy, which controls virtually every aspect of day-to-day life much as it did in the Middle Ages, naturally feels its dogma threatened by this potential fact.
		Thus a planned expedition to the north by Lord Asriel is held in disfavor by some very powerful people, to say the least.
		Of course, it transpires that Lyra is involved deeply with Lord Asriel's expedition, and will play a prominent role in its outcome, though exactly what that outcome will be remains to be seen.
	www.sfreviews.net /goldencompass.html (803 words)

	The Hindu : War of the worlds
		In this book, Lord Asriel is in the final stages of preparing for his confrontation with the Authority or God or whatever you choose to call Him.
		On Lord Asriel's side there are rebel angels, armoured bears, Gallivespians (Pullman's version of Lilliputans), friendly ghosts, and most importantly, Will, the bearer of the subtle knife and Lyra Silvertongue.
		For reasons that are too complicated to explain, she decides to help the beleaguered Lord Asriel, and the tide slowly turns.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/08/19/stories/13190176.htm (630 words)

	The Golden Compass - Children's Book Reviews
		Raised in a college by scholars, she is entrusted with an alethiometer (golden compass) and put in the care of a wicked woman, Mrs.
		She is trying to find Lord Asriel, her "uncle," so she can deliver the golden compass to him.
		She also seeks to rescue children stolen by Gobblers and is aided by gyptians, witches, an armored bear, and an air balloonist as she goes from one part of the world to another seeking to find the kidnapped children.
	www.discoveryjourney.com /contentsummary.asp?ContentID=461 (1103 words)

	The Impoverished Imagination - Prison Fellowship
		The only clear goal that most of the good characters are aware of is Lord Asriel’s goal of defeating the Authority—and yet, strangely, this important plotline is handled with almost laughable carelessness.
		Lord Asriel himself is quite possibly the most inconsistent character in all of literature.
		Pullman’s Lord Asriel sneers at the doctrine of Atonement (which is never explained or referred to elsewhere, leading one to wonder why it is even mentioned), while the idea is at the very heart of Lewis’s books.
	www.breakpoint.org /listingarticle.asp?ID=5660 (1815 words)

	The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials fantasy books
		And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, a battle of strange allies -- and shocking sacrifice.
		As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living -- and the dead -- finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story.
		Lord Asriel - Lyra's father, fighting the Authority (daemon Stelmaria, a snow leopard)
	members.aol.com /siure/pullman3.htm (1195 words)

	His Dark Materials \| Daniel Craig will be Lord Asriel \| BridgeToTheStars.Net
		I have nothing against daniel craig i think he will be a good bond,however as an Asriel.No thanks.I see Asriel also always with darker hair of course there is dye for the hair but who wants a fake Asriel.He simply does not fit in the role.Bad news,........again.
		i'm not saying asriel was buff, but he defintely had a powerful air about him and to me bettany did not fit the bill at all.
		It would seem as though this guy will work well enough for Lord Asriel, but I hope that the costume artist will at least give him some sort of beard; I don't know why, but I've always imagined Lord Asriel with some sort of short, well-manicured and graying beard.
	www.bridgetothestars.net /news/1155904473 (2276 words)

	The Golden Compass - An Entertaining Fantasy and a Truly Golden Book \| JoshWay.com
		In this conversation, they mention that a man who Lyra thinks is her uncle at the time, Lord Asriel, is coming to have dinner and show them something of importance.
		She remains there for quite a while, until Lord Asriel finally arrives at Jordan College and enters the Retiring Room straightaway, for he is late for dinner and doesn’t bother.
		While he is in the room, the Butler comes in with a tray of coffee, and while he is there, Lord Asriel orders him to fetch a screen and a projecting lantern.
	www.joshway.com /?id=567 (1950 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content
		The Church considers Dust to be the “physical evidence for original sin.” Lyra’s father, a Byronic figure named Lord Asriel, defies Church prohibitions by mounting an expedition to the Arctic Circle, where he learns more about Dust by observing another universe, which can be glimpsed through the northern lights.
		Coulter, is secretly running an isolated camp in the same region, where she conducts sinister Dustrelated experiments on abducted children, under the aegis of the General Oblation Board, one of the Church’s more malevolent offshoots.
		Near the end of “The Golden Compass,” Lord Asriel asks Lyra to bring him a copy of the Bible, and he reads her a passage from Genesis.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/051226fa_fact (5080 words)

	Craig is Asriel, Lord Asriel - Blogging Sundance
		The series in question is the His Dark Materials trilogy, which is kicking off its on-screen existence with The Golden Compass: Variety reports today that Craig has committed to playing Lord Asriel in the film, and that the character is "a fixture" in all three books in the series.
		Sure, Asriel -- described as "a ruthless and mysterious adventurer" -- sounds both intriguing and perfect for Craig, but still.
		Asriel, while a central figure in the books, doesn't really appear all that often.
	www.bloggingsundance.com /2006/08/18/craig-is-asriel-lord-asriel (953 words)

	Amazon.com: The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3): Books: Philip Pullman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up.
		In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below.
		Lyra's parents, Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter, are left wondering what she is doing while finding a way to keep her safe from the Church which wants to kill Lyra and keep the world safe.
	www.amazon.com /Amber-Spyglass-Dark-Materials-Book/dp/0345413377 (2941 words)

	Bond actor Daniel Craig to play Lord Asriel \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		James Bond actor Daniel Craig is to take the role of Lord Asriel in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books.
		Filming will start in Britain on September 4, and the film is scheduled for release in December next year.
		The trilogy, budgeted at £83m, is to be made by New Line, the company behind The Lord of the Rings films, one of the most successful franchises.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0,,1853803,00.html (171 words)

	Daniel Craig takes on fantasy role of Lord Asriel
		The first part of a planned trilogy, ‘The Golden Compass’ will focus on Lord Asriel, (Craig), an adventurer and his niece Lyra Belacqua, who journeys to a parallel universe of shape shifting creatures to save her best friend and other kidnapped children.
		Craig is scheduled to return to his James Bond role in the 22nd installment which New Line expects to get into theaters May 2, 2008.
		However if New Line moves forward with the entire trilogy, he will have to spend some of his acting time on the Pullman stories as his character Asriel is a central figure in each story.
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_1191921.php (249 words)

	The Golden Compass
		Lyra's life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she eavesdrops on a presentation by her uncle Lord Asriel to his colleagues in the Jordan College faculty.
		The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant.
		Soon after children begin disappearing all over the country and Lyra's guardian, Lord Asriel, is captured and imprisoned during an expedition to the Arctic, she is taken from the college by the beautiful, fascinating Mrs.
	www.students.sonoma.edu /clubs/azo/PPullman.htm (9585 words)

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