+ Daemons can talk. (Daemons often argue with their humans, lol)
+ Most people have daemons of the opposite sex (a male human with a female daemon, etc) but same sex daemons are a known if rare phenomenon. The author was like "don't worry about it, I never decided what it meant"... I like Pullman.
+ A human and their daemon share the same dreams when sleeping, but that's the only evidence of a psychic connection (no telepathy). Daemons really have no powers at all.
+ Usually, a human and daemon can only be about fifteen feet away from each other before they start feeling pain. (There's a way to get around it, called a separation trial, but we can stick with the baseline.)
+ A human touching a daemon who doesn't belong to them, or a daemon touching a human who isn't theirs, is very much a social taboo. It also causes emotional distress and physical pain, when one is touched with the intent to harm.
+ Child daemons can shift between animal forms, but part of the process of puberty is one's daemon achieving a settled form (one animal, that they are permanently from then on). The settled form of a daemon is usually some clue to the human's personality.
+ Daemons can be pretty much any animal. We know of a man whose daemon settled as a dolphin and he became a sailor to accommodate that. One of the series antagonists has a monkey daemon, there's another guy with a rabbit daemon, birds and dogs are common forms, et cetera.
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+ Most people have daemons of the opposite sex (a male human with a female daemon, etc) but same sex daemons are a known if rare phenomenon. The author was like "don't worry about it, I never decided what it meant"... I like Pullman.
+ A human and their daemon share the same dreams when sleeping, but that's the only evidence of a psychic connection (no telepathy). Daemons really have no powers at all.
+ Usually, a human and daemon can only be about fifteen feet away from each other before they start feeling pain. (There's a way to get around it, called a separation trial, but we can stick with the baseline.)
+ A human touching a daemon who doesn't belong to them, or a daemon touching a human who isn't theirs, is very much a social taboo. It also causes emotional distress and physical pain, when one is touched with the intent to harm.
+ Child daemons can shift between animal forms, but part of the process of puberty is one's daemon achieving a settled form (one animal, that they are permanently from then on). The settled form of a daemon is usually some clue to the human's personality.
+ Daemons can be pretty much any animal. We know of a man whose daemon settled as a dolphin and he became a sailor to accommodate that. One of the series antagonists has a monkey daemon, there's another guy with a rabbit daemon, birds and dogs are common forms, et cetera.