Atreyu is a fictional character in Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story and in the series of movies of the same name directed by Wolfgang Petersen. To the viewer/reader, he is a metafictional character who becomes a fictional character as he exists for real in the story. In the book he is a young Greenskin Warrior, from the Grassy Plains. His parents were killed by a buffalo soon after he was born, so his entire village raised him. By all accounts, he is skilled at archery and self-sufficient. Atreyu's name means "son of all" in his language. In the novel, Atreyu was summoned by the Childlike Empress to embark on a quest to save the land of Fantastica (called "Fantasia" in the film adaptation). During Atreyu's quest, his horse, Artax, falls victim to the Swamps of Sadness while Atreyu is protected by the Auryn. Bastian follows Atreyu's character in the "real world" while he reads "The Neverending Story". In the 1984 film version, the character of Atreyu is played by Noah Hathaway...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Atreyu. You should replace/update it...