Lord Asriel

No, that's true.

That's true, 'cause I guess the Lady Salmakia's purpose is to help support Lyra and get her out of that space and take her to Lord Asriel.

Um, whereas Bonneville's purpose is like, "I just want the baby, and maybe if I can get Alice in the way, cool.

I guess I can torture Malcolm along the way, but you know, I'll do whatever I can."

Exactly.

Where Ruta Skadi goes on an adventure, and she fucks Lord Asriel, and then is so on board with his mission, she

kind of becomes Lord Asriel groupie.

A little bit, or an acolyte, or a minion of some sort.

Yeah.

A convert, if you will.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's like, hey, witches, you want to go fight with Lord Asriel? And they're like, you know what? Bet.

What a freeloader.

So I think some of it was paid by Lord Asriel.

Then they explain this in the final book of the series.

Oh.

But one thing I look back at the game is was so important while you're playing the game at the beginning was that bottle of alcohol.

So everybody was like, Lord Asriel, which is Daniel Craig

or

James Bond.

It's Lord Asriel is coming.

We need to make sure that in the viewing room he has this fancy bottle of alcohol.

liquor and you're supposed to make sure that like it gets there so that you can sneak into the room and then they made a really big deal about it in the game and that's what gets poisoned so the guy wanted it in there the magisterium guy wanted that alcohol in there because he'd know that he was going to drink it They make it so important, but they never tell you why it's important in the game.

All they ever called her was Miss Costa.