Lord Asriel

Lord Asriel Belacqua is the deuteragonist of the book trilogy His Dark Materials. He is a explorer scientist,the father of Lyra Belacqua "Silvertongue " and the former lover of Marisa Coulter. He also has a snow leopard dæmon named Stelmaria.
In the 2007 film adaptation, he was portrayed by , who also played Barthélémy Karas in Renaissance, James Bond in the Bond reboot film franchise and Jake Lonergan in Cowboys & Aliens and Benoit Blanc in Knives Out.
In the 2019-2022 TV Series His Dark Materials, he was portrayed by , who also played Charles Xavier in the X-Men series, Wesley Gibson in Wanted, Arthur Claus in Arthur Christmas, Gnomeo in Gnomeo & Juliet, Hazel in Watership Down and adult Bill Denbrough in It: Chapter Two.
==Biography==
Lord Asriel was a member of the English aristocracy and Lyra's father while his dæmon is a snow leopard named Stelmaria. Asriel had an affair with Marisa Coulter, a married woman, leading to Lyra's birth. Asriel kills her husband after he finds out, but is spared imprisonment because of laws allowing self-defence. As a part of his punishment, he is barred from seeing Lyra, but he takes an interest in her raising, delivering her to Jordan College and visiting her. Lyra grows up believing Asriel to be her uncle rather than her father. Asriel is described as being "a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seem to flash and glitter with savage laughter". Possessed of enormous determination and willpower, he is fierce in nature and commands great respect in both the political and academic spheres, being a military leader and a fellow of Jordan College. Somehow, he is able to build a bridge to another world, where he assembles an army to oppose The Authority, an angel that claims to be God. Asriel dies alongside Mrs Coulter killing Metatron, the Authority's regent.
==Personality==
Asriel is ruthless and had a way of dominating a situation of place, with his immense power and knowledge. He was able to trick and persuade w:c:villains:Iofur Raknison showing he could influence and was very clever, being able to trick a bear. Lord Asriel, being able to calculate the power it would take to open the gateway between the worlds, showed he was extremely intelligent.
==Trivia==
*Although Daniel Craig portrayed a blonde Asriel, in La Belle Sauvage, Asriel's hair is described as black.
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