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Will and Lyra instead took the knife and used it to travel between their worlds for a long while, though the knife once broke when Will, trying to open a window, was distracted by the thought of his mother. The shattered pieces were collected by the two children, though, and repaired by the armoured bear and great metalworker [[Iorek Byrnison]]. |
Will and Lyra instead took the knife and used it to travel between their worlds for a long while, though the knife once broke when Will, trying to open a window, was distracted by the thought of his mother. The shattered pieces were collected by the two children, though, and repaired by the armoured bear and great metalworker [[Iorek Byrnison]]. |
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| − | Iorek warned Will and Lyra that the knife had purposes of its own — indicating an intelligence akin to that of the [[alethiometer]]. He also indicated these purposes might not be good. Later, the angel [[Xaphania]] explained that [[Dust]] had been leaking out of the worlds through the windows made by the knife, and that, each time the knife made a window, it drew up a [[Spectre]] from the [[Abyss]]. Thus all windows leading between worlds had to be closed by the angels, except for one. Will and Lyra initially believed this one window could be between their worlds, but then realized that they had made a promise to the shades in the world of the dead: to leave them an opening so that they can leave it and rejoin the universe, by emerging into the world of the [[mulefa]]. Thus, Will |
+ | Iorek warned Will and Lyra that the knife had purposes of its own — indicating an intelligence akin to that of the [[alethiometer]]. He also indicated these purposes might not be good. Later, the angel [[Xaphania]] explained that [[Dust]] had been leaking out of the worlds through the windows made by the knife, and that, each time the knife made a window, it drew up a [[Spectre]] from the [[Abyss]]. Thus all windows leading between worlds had to be closed by the angels, except for one. Will and Lyra initially believed this one window could be between their worlds, but then realized that they had made a promise to the shades in the world of the dead: to leave them an opening so that they can leave it and rejoin the universe, by emerging into the world of the [[mulefa]]. Thus, Will realized he had to shatter the knife. As people in the multiverse are not capable of surviving for long outside their own universes, it was also necessary that Will and Lyra each return to their own worlds. |
When Lyra was twenty, she met two Welsh miners, [[Gwyn]] and [[Dafydd]], on the ferry to [[Flushing]]. She recalled that the hands of her alethiometer resembled the colour of the subtle knife but told them she did not know the material when they examined it. They told her that the [[Coleg Mwyngloddiaeth]] museum had part of a blade made from a metal nobody had ever been able to identify, unaware that it was possibly a fragment of the shattered subtle knife.<ref name="TSC17">{{Ref|book|7|17}}</ref> |
When Lyra was twenty, she met two Welsh miners, [[Gwyn]] and [[Dafydd]], on the ferry to [[Flushing]]. She recalled that the hands of her alethiometer resembled the colour of the subtle knife but told them she did not know the material when they examined it. They told her that the [[Coleg Mwyngloddiaeth]] museum had part of a blade made from a metal nobody had ever been able to identify, unaware that it was possibly a fragment of the shattered subtle knife.<ref name="TSC17">{{Ref|book|7|17}}</ref> |
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