bastian gave the empress the name atreyu in the neverending story.
what name does bastian give the empress in the neverending story?
atreyu
falkor, who had managed to locate the auryn, rescues atreyu in time. the two find themselves in a void with only small fragments of fantasia remaining, and fear they have failed when they spot the empress's ivory tower among the fragments. inside, atreyu apologizes for failing the empress, but she assures him he has succeeded in bringing to her a human child who has been following his quest: bastian. she further explains that, just as bastian is following atreyu's story, "others" are following bastian's, making this part of the neverending story. as the nothing begins to consume the tower, the empress pleads directly to bastian to call out her new name, but in amazement that he himself has been incorporated into the story as the child they were looking for, he denies the events as just being a story. atreyu's death spurs bastian to pronounce the name he has chosen before losing consciousness: "moon child". bastian awakes with the empress, who presents him with a grain of sand, the sole remnant of fantasia. the empress tells bastian that he has the power to bring fantasia back with his imagination. bastian re-creates fantasia, and as he flies on falkor's back, he sees the land and its inhabitants restored, and that atreyu has been reunited with artax. when falkor asks what his next wish will be, bastian then brings falkor back to the real world to chase down the bullies from before. the film ends with the narration that bastian had many more wishes and adventures, and adds: "but that's another story".
the neverending story (film)
atreyu is the protagonist of the mysterious book that bastian reads. he is a young green-skinned warrior from the grassy plain. his parents were killed by a purple buffalo soon after he was born, and his entire village raised him; wherefore his name means "son of all" in his native language. he is summoned by the childlike empress to save the land of fantasia by finding a cure for her illness, and given auryn, an amulet that makes whoever wears it the childlike empress' herald. during the quest to find a cure, he meets falkor the luckdragon, who becomes his steed after the death of his horse artax. bastian, reading atreyu's story in the real world, experiences everything atreyu does; this proves fantasia's solution and the empress' cure, in bringing bastian to fantastica to give the empress a new name. atreyu plays a prominent role in the second half of the novel, as bastian travels fantastica far and wide as its savior. they quickly become friends, but as bastian continues to use auryn, he becomes arrogant and gradually loses his memories. when bastian has lost even his name, atreyu and falkor offer favorable testimony to the powers in auryn, who allow bastian's return to the human world. with their friendship restored, atreyu promises to finish the stories bastian has begun in fantastica. in the 1984 film version, the character of atreyu is played by noah hathaway. his skin is ultimately not olive green as described in the novel; though it was attempted to do this through makeup, it never made it to the final production. as such, his people were ultimately called the plains people instead of greenskins. the character makes a return appearance in "", played by kenny morrison. in the 1995 animated show, atreyu (voiced by dominic zamprogna) has a younger sister named saiya, and his outward appearance has been patterned after noah hathaway from the first film. in the 2001 hallmark channel mini-series, "tales from the neverending story", he is portrayed by tyler hynes and the character's people are called the woodland people. he is shown to have a romantic relationship with a young aviatrix called "fly girl", and to be something of a village innocent.
list of the neverending story characters