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In The Neverending Story, Bastian is not the first human to enter Fantastica; he was preceded by Mr Coreander and many others. I recall a hint at some point in the book that Shakespeare had been one of these humans who visited Fantastica. How many other names do we know of such people?
What humans do we know of who've been to Fantastica?
The only ones whose names are confirmed (or practically confirmed) are William Shakespeare (presumably), Carl Conrad Coreander and Bastian Balthazar Bux.
However, we do have the descriptions of several other unnamed Humans ('Know-Nothings') who ended up in the City of the Old Emperors:
So a total of 10 individually identified or described Humans have visited Fantastica. But only 3 named.
On a side note I've always found the boy and girl's presence disturbing. This means at least two children came to Fantastica, gave the Childlike Empress a name, tried to overthrow her, and essentially had death of personality, trapped in a place where they will never die or even age, forever.
How long have they been there? Hundreds of years? Or could they be missing persons cases from Bastian's era, who went to an attic or library corner, started reading, and never returned?
I know you asked for names, so I might be skirting around the question here.
