Characters in The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

Lyra Belacqua

A young woman and former bearer of the alethiometer, now a student at Oxford's Jordan College, who continues to fight against the Magisterium.

Malcolm Polstead

Lyra's childhood friend and protector from her early years in Bolvane; his story is told largely through a prologue set twelve years before the main narrative.

Also in The Secret Commonwealth