During adolescence a person's dæmon undergoes "settling", an event in which that person's dæmon permanently and involuntarily assumes the form of the animal which the person most resembles in character. Pre-pubescent children's dæmons can change form voluntarily to become any creature, real or imaginary. Dæmons have human intelligence, are capable of human speech-regardless of the form they take-and usually behave as though they are independent of their humans. Dæmons are the external physical manifestation of a person's "inner-self" that takes the form of an animal. Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (1489–91) was one inspiration for Pullman's dæmon Ī dæmon ( / ˈ d iː m ən/) is a type of fictional being in the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials.
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