I was thinking about The Golden Compass earlier because I'm going to be buddy reading that series later this year (rereading in my case because we actually read it in English class in 7th grade) and about the concept of daemons in that series, which is, to summarize briefly, an animal representation of your soul that lives in the physical world with you who you can talk to and interact with. Honestly, the dream. In the book, your daemon essentially settles into one animal form based on who you are for the rest of your life when you hit puberty.

And because I love animals and always love reasons for more animal talk - what would your daemon/animal form/however you want to conceptualize it be based on your personality and why? Post a picture if you want!

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Uhm, so can someone explain to me please, why there are only four of them in the first year at Babel? Am I missing something? Babel is clearly very important for the whole empire, economy, military etc and obviously very well funded. I thought maybe the entrance criteria are somehow so rigorous that very few people can make it. But there was some comment made about some candidates not making it in despite passing exams... So why...? Why only admit four students in a year?