The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass is the name given both to the American printing of the book Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, and to the movie based on the book. It is the first of the His Dark Materials trilogy. In the universe of this book/film, humans have part of their soul as an external creature, their daemon, which takes the form of an animal. Unsurprisingly, this concept has been enthusiastically embraced by Suethors.