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Lady Salmakia
A Gallivespian spy, working for Lord Asriel
Samirsky Hotel
A hotel in Nova Zembla, in Lyra's world. Full of Arctic drifters.
Samoyed peoples
Hunters in the North of Lyra's World.
St. Michael's College
A college in Lyra's Oxford. It is next to Jordan College
Jotham Santelia
The Regius Professor of Cosmology at the University of Gloucester. A prisoner of Svalbard.
Sant'Elia
A place in the Spectres' world.
Sattamax
A Mulefa elder.
Lee Scoresby
A New Dane, from the country of Texas. An aëronaut. His daemon is a shabby, tough-looking hare, named Hester.
Shadows
Dr. Mary Malone's term for Dust.
Shot Tower
A tower in Lyra's London, which drops its 'endless drizzle of molten lead into vats of murky water'
Shuter
The Porter of Jordan College, Oxford.
Ruta Skadi
The queen of the Latvian witches. Her daemon is a bluethroat called Sergi.
Skraelings
A northern people in Lyra's World
Sky-iron
The material from which Iorek Byrnison has fashioned his armour.
Smokemarket
A market in Colby, in Lyra's world. The market is named after the granite many-chimneyed building there, where kippers are smoked.
Sraf
The Mulefa word for Dust.
Society Of The Work Of The Holy Spirit
Another very active branch of the Magisterium, along with the Consistorial Court. There is a fierce rivalry between these two branches.
Spectres of Indifference
Invisible to children, they are inhabitants of the world of Cittagazze, and feed on the daemons of adults. They are afraid of the Subtle Knife which can destroy them.
Adèle Starminster
A journalist. Her daemon is a butterfly. She manages to gatecrash into Mrs. Coulter's party.
Stefanski Family
One of the large gyptian families. The Costas are part of this family.
Cardinal Sturrock
A cardinal appointed to the Consistorial Court. His daemon is a macaw.
Sub-rector
A scholar/staff member at Jordan College. He is nearly blind.
Svalbard
An area in the North of Lyra's World. The armoured bears have their palace here, and it is here that Lord Asriel is imprisoned.
Sysselman
A Northern word for the Governor, in Lyra's world.There is a Sysselman at Trollesund.
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