Ask The Alethiometer!

[AndaisQ]

"Witch nature essentially connected to femininity."

Astonishing.

[Kappa]

Correct! I can't imagine how you guessed :P

[Alphabeta]

Why is the nature of witches essentially connected to femininity?

(I told you!)

[Kappa]

It just is. :P

[AndaisQ]

Metacausality, i.e. "Pullman said so and we didn't feel like changing it"?

[Kappa]

More or less, yeah.

[Alphabeta]

And you have no guesses as to why Mr. Pullman said so? :P

[Kappa]

Not especially. And if I did, they wouldn't necessarily cross into the universe. So the alethiometer's answer might still be "asking why witches are feminine is like asking why pi is between 3 and 4".

[Alphabeta]

Alethiometer, are daemons magical constructs, organisms in their own right, or something else entirely?

[Kappa]