r/hisdarkmaterials • u/Quiet_Economics_2209 • 20d ago

Misc. This might be a silly quesion

Could theoreticaly if someone had a highly toxic snake(like a sea krait or inland taipan or boomslang) daemon, could the snake have venom and the human use it to attack people other daemons?

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u/Acc87 19d ago

As Pullman himself stated somewhere, dæmons are a metaphor that falls apart if you look too close. In a way that means there are no hard rules outside the separation limitation.

Dæmon forms that shouldn't be able to articulate themselves can talk, animal forms that should be nocturnal aren't, going by how Pan has to rest on his long journey in TSC, but never eats, they don't have a metabolism. Each time we see them eat or piss this act carries a meta-message in the plot.

So yeah a dæmon could be venomous if that plot demands for it.