* In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Lord Asriel constructs an " adamant " fortress.

* In Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, there is an attempted poisoning by the Master of Jordan College ( the novel ) or an official of the Magisterium ( the film ) of one of the major characters, Lord Asriel, via a decanter of Tokaji in the first chapter.

* Lord Asriel, in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series

Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between Lord Asriel on the one side, and the first angel to come into being, called The Authority, and his Regent, called Metatron, on the other.

Lyra Belacqua, age twelve at the beginning of the trilogy, is the daughter of Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter in an Oxford similar to our own.

She was raised believing that her parents had died in an airship crash, and that Lord Asriel was her uncle, and later learned the truth from John Faa, leader of the Gyptians.

Lyra's inevitable betrayal can be interpreted as two separate occasions and either occurs when Lyra leads her friend Roger to Lord Asriel on Svalbard at the end of the first book, in the chapter titled " Betrayal ", or when Lyra leaves her dæmon on the shore of the lake in the Land of the Dead.

The book focuses more on the characters and their own individual plots, rather than just on Lyra's father, Lord Asriel, and his war against the Magisterium.

There, Will encounters 12-year-old Lyra Silvertongue and her daemon Pantalaimon, who came here after entering the hole in the sky that her father, Lord Asriel, created at the end of Northern Lights.

The witches vote to band together and join Lyra's father, Lord Asriel, in his fight against the Magisterium.

Will returns to camp to find a pair of angels, Balthamos and Baruch, waiting to guide him to Lord Asriel.

As the second novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy, the book has also formed part of a radio drama on BBC Radio 4 starring Terence Stamp as Lord Asriel and Lulu Popplewell as Lyra, and as a two-part, six-hour performance for London's Royal National Theatre in December 2003, running until March 2004, and a second run between November 2004 and April 2005.

In Cittàgazze, two angels, Balthamos and Baruch, tell Will, the bearer of the Subtle Knife, that they are taking him to Lord Asriel.

Baruch flies to Lord Asriel to tell him what has happened and to get help.

In Northern Lights, Lord Asriel reveals the origins of the term " Dust " to be from a passage from the slightly alternate version of the Bible in Lyra's World: " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

At the beginning of the trilogy, Lord Asriel claims that the act of settling triggers Dust to begin to be attracted to the person.

The separation process also releases a huge burst of energy, which was used by Lord Asriel to create a bridge into the world containing Cittàgazze.

Lord Asriel is a major character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series and one of the main protagonists of Northern Lights.

Lord Asriel was a highly respected member of the British ( Brytish ) aristocracy.

Lord Asriel killed him in a duel.

Lord Asriel, who hated the church, arrived one day and took Lyra to his almamater, Jordan College, where she was placed in the care of the Master.

After travelling to the South, Lord Asriel visited Jordan College where he was almost poisoned by the Master, who read his alethiometer and saw that Lord Asriel's actions would be dangerous.

As they were standing on the Abyss ' edge, Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter sacrificed themselves, falling into the abyss and taking Metatron with them.

Lyra, the product of an affair with Lord Asriel, was born when Marisa was just 21.

People talk of this so freely that they go so far as to say that his wife has a malady in one of her breasts and the Queen is only waiting for her to die to marry Lord Robert ... Matters have reached such a pass ... that ... it would ... be well to approach Lord Robert on your Majesty's behalf ...

The men — who include Lord Windermere and Lord Augustus — have been evicted from their gentlemen's club at closing time and talk about women: mainly Mrs Erlynne.

The usually caustic Dorothy Parker had nothing but praise: " I think, and I'm trying to talk calmly, that Barnaby and his friends and oppressors are the most important additions to American Arts and Letters in Lord knows how many years.

He claimed that the Lord had opened his spiritual eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons and other spirits.

After discussions in February and March 1916 with Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell – who did not believe press talk of an armed Irish uprising but wanted more troops as a deterrent-Friend ( Commander-in-Chief, Ireland ) and Wimborne ( Lord Lieutenant ) French said that he could spare only a single cavalry brigade as reinforcements, and later offered an extra reserve infantry brigade, although in the event Friend declined ( 7 April ) to make formal application for the brigade to be sent.

Chapman has said that after converting to Christianity he " never again disbelieved in the Lord or Christ or in the fact that I knew him and could of course talk to him any time I wanted to and get back into a deeper relationship with him ".

Popularly the brothers equally figured as a pair, as is apparent from street talk reported to the authorities in March 1581: " My Lord of Warwick and my Lord of Leicester are traitors and come of traitor's blood, and if they had right they had lost their heads so well as others for making away of King Edward.

When urged by Sir Evelyn Baring ( Lord Cromer ) early in 1883 to abandon some of the more distant parts of the Sudan, he replied with characteristic light-heartedness: " Nous en causerons plus tard ; d ' abord nous allons donner une bonne raclée à ce monsieur " ( We'll talk about that later, first we're going to give this gentleman ( i. e. the Mahdi ) a good thrashing ).

In " Beer ", he foolishly tries to talk a " whopping great inheritance " out of his fanatical puritan aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Whiteadder, while at the same time holding a wild drinking party in Baldrick's bedroom.

It was from alleged dialogue between Cormac Teige McCarthy, the Lord of Blarney, and Queen Elizabeth I of England, that the term " blarney " was coined to mean " empty flattery " or " beguiling talk.

The name of the group was bestowed by Lord Charles Beresford, who is quoted as having said: " You all sit and talk about each other's souls — I shall call you the ' Souls '".

Lord Chief Justice Pemberton addressing these complaints said to the accused, " Look you, Mr. Plunket, it is in vain for you to talk and make this discourse here now ..." and later on again, “ Look you Mr Plunket, don't mis-spend your own time ; for the more you trifle in these things, the less time you will have for your defence ".

Hughes, distraught and overwrought, called Governor-General at midnight, saying he had no one else to talk to, and they met in the wee-hours of the morning, with Lord Novar offering sympathy and support to his old colleague, but ultimately both understood that the cause was probably lost.

He is encouraged to talk to Jesus directly and search for what The Lord is saying so that his life will be one with Him ; to walk in the Fruit of the Spirit in, this is what the Charismatic understands by giving his life to Jesus.

Originally able to talk normally as a cadet, his time in the Stockade rendered him to speak in a brooding voice that mimics the ravings of The Lord of the Rings Sméagol / Gollum, speaking in Waspinator's trademark third-person and adding "- bot " to the names of fellow Transformers.

The voice changer allows the wearer to talk in a voice somewhat like James Earl Jones as Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, and also included numerous built-in phrases and Vader's breathing sound from the movies.

If he could be convinced, Nehru would be able to persuade Gandhi to talk to the Viceroy Lord Irwin and reach an agreement with the British Government in the forthcoming Gandhi-Irwin Pact.

Sometimes, it can be useful to go beyond Eden and talk about other gardens: the bittersweet Kingdom of Logres built by Arthur to keep back the rising dark for a generation, the idyllic Hobbits ' Shire in The Lord of the Rings, or just a happy childhood.

Lord Lothian, in a talk lasting forty-five minutes, came straight out with his view on the Bill:

This format is best remembered for being a loose parody of a standard late-night talk show, with host Vince McMahon and " sidekick " Lord Alfred Hayes conducting in character interviews with WWF wrestlers and participating in skits.