List of The Neverending Story Characters - Other Characters

Other Characters

• Bastian's Dad - Bastian's unnamed father, who is a dental technician by profession, is described to have grown distant from his son after the death of his wife, although this changes when he and Bastian are reunited at the end of the book. In the second film, Bastian's father is given the first name Barney and finds the Neverending Story and follows Bastian's journey by reading the book and reunited with his son at the conclusion of the film. However, in the third film, he appears to have no memories of reading the book. He marries a woman named Jane and thus gains a new family, along with a daughter named Nicole who plays a main role in the third film.
• Bark Troll - A walking tree troll who is a creation of the third film, making no actual appearance in the original book. He is loosely based on three characters of a species called bark trolls that appeared briefly to advise Atreyu about the Nothing in the book. In the film he is rather grouchy but acts as comic relief. He befriends Bastian and joins him to fight the Nasties, but lands on Earth due to a wish overload in a conifer forest. He comes across a logging shipment and hitches a ride to Bastian's house, disguised as a log and a garden plant. He develops a difficult friendship with Rock Biter Junior in the process. In The Neverending Story cartoon, Bark Troll is a supporting character and a friend of Bastian.
• Cairon (Caíron in German) - Herald of the Childlike Empress and in-between bearer of AURYN, who passed it to Atreyu. In the book, he appears as a black elderly centaur (his lower half with the striped pattern of a zebra), but in the first motion picture, he appears as a humanoid Merman (performed by Moses Gunn). By his name and being a centaur and physician, Cairon is an allusion to the mythological Greek Chiron.
• Dame Eyola (Dame Aiuóla) - A living plant taking the form of a motherly woman who lives in the House of Change, who waited for Bastian to find her so she could take care of him and help him on his path to find his own, personal desire.
• The Four Heroes - Four swordsman who appear in the second half of the novel. They are said to be the bravest and strongest warriors in all of Fantastica and participate in a tournament together in the Silver City of Amarganth. One is identified as Hero Hynreck, who is infatuated with Princess Oglamar; the other three, Hykrion, Hysbald and Hydorn, accompany Bastian on his journey and swear allegiance to him. They are often portrayed as cheerful beings, but when Bastian decides to make himself an emperor, they get drunk and become rather useless. They survive the battle against Atreyu's rebellion but lose track of Bastian, and go their separate ways to look for him.
• Ilwan (Illuán) - A blue genie with a bird's beak in place of his nose and mouth. Ilwan became one of Bastian's closest servants, but was killed during the battle for the Ivory Tower.
• Nimbly - A bird-like creature in the second film and does not exist as a character in the book. He is Xayide's spy, who encourages Bastian to use up his memories wishing, but later has a change of heart. In the book, there is a species called Nimblies, who are rabbit-like creatures with feathers instead of fur.
• Querquobad, the Silver Sage (Quérquobad der Silbergreis) - The ruler of the silver ship city of Amarganth, which was built by the Acharis and swims on a lake made by their tears.
• Shexper/Shakespeare - Mentioned in Chapter XVIII (18) when Hykrion, Hysbald, and Hydorn sing a song ("When that I was a little tiny boy, With Hey, Ho, the wind and the rain..."). They mention that that song was sung by one called "Shexper", which is mispronunciation of the name, "Shakespeare", which alludes to the possibility that the real Shakespeare once visited Fantasia the same way Bastian did.
• Yikka (Jicha) - A female mule who acts as Bastian's steed and mode of transport during the second half of the novel. She is quite faithful to him, but under Xayide's influence Bastian allows her to leave his side to start a family with an attractive male pegasus.
• Yor - The picture miner of Yor's Minroud, a mine from which he excavates dream pictures (which make up the soil of Fantastica), who helps Bastian find his lost dream.