A beautiful, rich, and sophisticated woman who can seduce children into the palm of her hand – but who has a dark side only visible in the form of her cruel daemon, the golden monkey – Mrs. Coulter runs an operation hidden in the deep North where she takes poor and orphaned children and severs them from their daemons (souls) for an experiment for The Magisterium, her church. What makes her so compelling as the villain is that we are never sure whose side she is actually on – her motivation remains murky. In the end, when she commits her final redeeming act, we are left feeling even more conflicted.
