When you turn 16 you're sent into a forest to complete a quest while people watch to calculate if you belong to the Obsears who observe, the Leages who talk, or the Droits who do. Lyra just turned 16. Today is the day she goes into the forest. Her family are all Obsears and she knows how much it means to her family that she becomes an Obsear too. But is that truly who she is?