Everyone has a daemon.

One of my favorite books is The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. It is everything a book should be—a great adventure story with wondrously creative fantasy elements that hide subplots of literary merit. If you have not read it, then you should go to your bookstore and buy it as soon as you can!

New Line Cinema bought the Rights to produce a live action movie of the book, and that movie will be released this December 7th. New Line, as usual, has produced a great website to market and publicize the movie, and part of that website is the ability to find out who your daemon is.

A person's soul lives on the outside of their body, in the form of a daemon—an animal spirit that accompanies them through life. A child's daemon can change shape, assuming all the forms that a child's potential inspires; but as a person ages, their daemon gradually settles into one form, according to their character and nature.

Below is my daemon—a female snow leopard by the name of Anthora—and those of you who know me can check it out and make sure it truly represents me.



Hope you have fun with it!