His Dark Materials is a fantasy drama series based on the trilogy of novels of the same name by Philip Pullman. the series begins in an alternative world where all humans' souls manifest as animal companions called daemons. Where the events of the novel revolve around the life of a young girl named Lyra who is an orphan living with the scholars at Jordan College, Oxford, in a world governed by the Magisterium, a religious and political body. Lyra discovers a dangerous secret that involves Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter, and is the subject of a witches' prophecy that she will change the world....