Lyra Belacqua is the main protagonist of the His Dark Materials series, a fantasy trilogy written by Philip Pullman. She is an orphan living in the fictional world of Oxford, England, and is the bearer of an extraordinary destiny. Lyra is brave, curious, and determined,
Lyra Belacqua, 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.