Metatron is the Regent of Heaven, and seeks to supplant God, destroy Lord Asriel and his army, and try to kill the heroine Lyra Belacqua. He is betrayed and killed by Mrs. Coulter, who unknowingly imitates Lyra by promising him herself as a prize for his victory over Lord Asriel, but conspires with Asriel to destroy him. He is stated to have been the biblical character Enoch, who is in the line between Adam and Noah.