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Lord Asriel discovered that when a child and their daemon are separated, a great amount of energy is released in an instant. Lord Asriel wished to open a pathway into another world (the world that could be seen in the northern lights), which would require a great amount of energy to do.

Therefore, he requested that a child be brought to him. Roger was brought to him, and so Lord Asriel used Roger to provide the energy needed to open the pathway into the other world (which resulted in Roger's death).

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Lord Asriel believed that he needed to create an intercision between worlds to allow him to wage war against the Authority. He saw sacrificing Roger as a means to achieve this goal, even though it was a highly immoral and tragic act.

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