Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Lyra Belacqua is a fictional character created by Philip Pullman and the heroine of the His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a parallel universe to our own. Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between angels and a false deity called The Authority. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.