Gmork was vicious, crazy, violent, wicked, and ill-tempered, but he is also highly rational, crafty, and sneaky. Unlike the film and the book, in the animated series, Gmork was depicted as an arctic wolf with red eyes. In the 1995-1996 animated series, Gmork appears as an extension of the Nothing (in this version represented as a black hole within which the eyes of the wolf shine, which occasionally emerges out of the darkness). Blank, a substitute schoolteacher, to keep an eye on him and stop his meddling. In Tales of the Neverending Story, Gmork is a werewolf-type creature under the command of Xayide who invades Bastian's world to assume the guise of Mr. He is freed from Gmork's grip by Falkor, who escapes with him to the Ivory Tower. However, being held by Gmork prevents Atreyu from being able to give in to the overpowering urge exerted by the Nothing to throw himself into it. As Atreyu approaches the dead wolf, the carcass lashes out and grabs Atreyu in its jaws. In the novel, Gmork's evil lives on after his death. Eventually, Gmork reveals the name of the boy he is pursuing and Atreyu reveals his identity, which makes the wolf laugh until he finally succumbs to starvation and dies. Gmork explains to Atreyu the nature of the Nothing, and that if a Fantastican enters it, they become a 'lie' in the human world. Then Gmork met the Princess of Darkness named Gaya, who, upon hearing of his mission to help the Nothing, chained Gmork with an unbreakable magical chain and leapt into the Nothing, leaving him to starve. Gmork confesses that he has been hunting a boy sent on a quest by the Childlike Empress to find her a new name, but lost him early on. However, Gmork himself never manages to catch up with Atreyu because the latter uses the magical powers of the poisonous bite of the monster Ygramul to wish himself to the Southern Oracle.įinally, Atreyu meets Gmork in Spook City (where he is chained) and Atreyu employs the name Nobody to hide his identity in shame of his failure to complete his quest. Gmork's knowledge of Fantastica (Fantastia) interested the Manipulators, which is the reason they gave him his mission.

Instead, he is able to travel between worlds, changing into a Fantastican or a human (depending upon the world), but in appearance only.

He and other dual-matured creatures like him do not possess a world of their own like Fantasticans and humans do. Gmork's main mission is to track down and kill Atreyu.

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