never goes there. It is a world inhabited by humans and Gallivespians who are in conflict. Minor worlds In this section are minor worlds that are featured in this franchise: Three worlds are briefly glimpsed when Will is experimenting with the knife in The Amber Spyglass: One world contains a desert. The second world contains an industrial city where the factory workers are in chains. The third world contains a meadow inhabited by blue bison-like grazers. Will, Baruch, and Balthamos escape from the Regent Metatron by cutting through to a moonlit beach in yet another world. Will opens a world with a tropical rainforest when demonstrating the Subtle Knife's powers to Iorek Byrnison. While rescuing Lyra from Mrs Coulter's cave in the Himalaya of Lyra's world, he cuts through a world where the moon shines brightly over insect-infested ground the colour of bleached bone. Will, Lyra, Tialys, and Salmakia reach the World of the Dead from a world with what looks like a Dutch or Danish farmstead, where the villagers have just been massacred by armed soldiers and their village razed (this conflict is never explained). When Will tries to break the subtle knife in The Amber Spyglass, he accidentally opens into a world where a rainstorm is happening. See also His Dark Materials List of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust characters Races and creatures in His Dark Materials Northern Lights The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass Lyra's Oxford Once Upon a Time in the North References His Dark Materials His Dark Materials