List of The Neverending Story Characters - Fantasian Creatures

Fantasian Creatures

The following are a list of creatures featured in the different media appearances of "The Neverending Story":

• Acharis (Acharai) - The Acharis are a race of worm-like creatures who are so ashamed by their own ugliness that they hide underground and constantly cry. Their acidic tears eat away the soil around them, allowing them to mine Fantastican silver (the only element which is impervious to their tears), which they use to construct beautiful buildings. Bastian pities them and transforms them into the Shlamoofs (Schlamuffen), but they become anarchist, clown-faced flying creatures who have no rules and destroy all of the work they did as Acharis. They pursue Bastian and demand that he becomes their leader, but they are driven off by Atreyu and Falkor — unfortunately too late before their screaming destroys the fragile picture of his father that Bastian previously excavated from Yor's Minroud (see below).
• Bird Humans -
• Four Winds Giants - Four giants who guard the winds of Fantastica. They constantly fight with each other, which causes the separation of Atreyu and Falkor in the novel. The four of them by name are: Lirr, the black North Wind, Sheerek, the sulfur-yellow South Wind, Baureo, the leaden-gray East Wind, and Mayestril, the fiery-red West Wind. Uncharacteristically silenced by the power of AURYN, it is through the Wind Giants that Atreyu learns that Fantasia has no boundary. In the movie, they are replaced by the Nothing.
• Greenskins (Grünhäute) - Also known as the Grass People (Grasleute), these are Atreyu's people, a folk of hunters and gatherers with a culture and lifestyle very similar to the North American Plain Indians. As their name implies, their skin is of an olive-green hue, and their hair is blueish-black. Their home is the Grassy Sea, a vast prairie in an undisclosed part of Fantastica bordered by the Silver Mountains range.
• Iceheads (Eisbolde in German, a merging of the words "ice" and "kobold") - A race of creatures which reside in the Mountains of Fate, where the Childlike Empress encounters the Old Man from the Wandering Mountain in the novel. They are described as giant humanoids covered in (or made of) ice who move so slow that a single footstep takes years to complete. As a result, they are fairly isolated even from their own kind, and moreso from any other living creature in Fantastica.
• Nighthobs (Nachtalb) - The Nighthobs are a race of nocturnal humanoids that live in the southern regions of Fantasia. They have sharp features, wild hair, and wear drab clothing. Nighthobs are known to employ large bats that they fly much like a hang glider. The most notable of the Nighthobs was Vooshvazool, who was sent on the mission to the Ivory Tower.
• Rockbiters (Felsenbeißer) - The Rockbiters (or Rockchewers in the book) are large rock monsters that eat rocks and delight in different geological varieties. Rockbiters often are seen riding stone bicycles. Despite their gargantuan size, Rockbiters are generally concerned with the well-being of Fantasians smaller than themselves. There are a family of Rockbiters in the series.
• Teeny-Tinys (Winzlinge) - A race of tiny people that ride on Racer Snails. They are quite sophisticated, but due their size they live in trees, erecting entire villages whose dwellings are connected by a huge number of ladders, slides and stairways.