The Neverending Story

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They are often portrayed as cheerful beings, but when Bastian decides to make himself an emperor, they get drunk and become useless. Falkor and Atreyu go to the Childlike Empress, who assures them they have brought her rescuer to her; Bastian suspects that the Empress means him, but cannot bring himself to believe it. Eventually it is revealed that Fantastica is actually the land of human dreams and fantasy, and that the only way to save it from the Nothing is for a human child to enter Fantastica and give the Childlike Empress a new name, then revitalize the country with their wishes and dreams. Tri-Face (portrayed by Christopher Burton) is a three-faced scientist who is Xayide's servant in the second film.

Their meeting in Spook City occurs in the film as well, where Gmork attacks Atreyu, impaling himself on an improvised stone knife held by the young warrior. The other protagonist is a boy from the real world, a reader of the novel with the same title, for whom the story gradually becomes more and more realistic. The episode "Missing Memories" reveals that the Empress is essentially the equivalent of the Fisher King to Fantasia; when Xayide finds crystals representing the Empress's memories in the Minroud Mine, shattering these crystals not only removes the Empress's memory of the subject depicted, but erases them from Fantasia itself.Cairon the Black Centaur (German: Caíron, der Schwarz-Zentaur) is a herald of the Childlike Empress and in-between bearer of Auryn who passed it to Atreyu.

They survive the battle against Atreyu's rebellion but lose track of Bastian, and go their separate ways to look for him. Marie-Alice was winner of the 2019 Book Illustration Competition, run by The Folio Society with House of Illustration, for her artwork and binding design for Howl’s Moving Castle. Bastian's dad (portrayed by Gerald McRaney in the first film, John Wesley Shipp in the second film, Kevin McNulty in the third film) 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.The first protagonist is a young warrior, who is asked by the sick Empress to set off and find the cure for their world. Their only distinctive ability is incredible luck in everything they do, as shown when Falkor locates and rescues his companion after being lost in a violent, blinding storm.