<Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <P> Atreyu (German: Atréju) is the protagonist of the mysterious book that Bastian reads . To the readership, Atreyu is a metafictional character, existing fictionally and within the reality of the book itself . He is described as having green skin and blue hair . </P> <P> He is a young warrior from the Grassy Plains (in German, "The Grassy Sea"). 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 . </P> <P> Atreyu features largely in the second half of the novel, as Bastian travels Fantasia far and wide as its savior . They quickly become friends, but as Bastian continues to use AURYN, he becomes arrogant and gradually loses his memory . 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 . </P>

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