Ygramul

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Ygramul, the Many is a fictional villainous character from Michael Ende's The Neverending Story.

Ygramul is portrayed as a shapeshifter, who often takes form of a large spider and builds webs to catch its prey. The creature is actually comprised of many little insects who share a single hive mind. Ygramul's poison is deadly, but grants the victim the ability to transport to any location within the land of Fantastica before succumbing to its effects.

In the book, this poison is the means by which Atreyu travels to the home of Engywook and Urgl, near the Southern Oracle. And the point in the story where Falkor the luckdragon is introduced (he is caught in Ygramul's web). The lingering effects of the poison are nursed out of the two by Urgl, while Engywook, a scholar of the Southern Oracle, instructs Atreyu on the challenges he is to encounter within the Oracle's demesne.

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• Swarm intelligence (also Ygramul mentioned here in section References in popular culture). Ygramul is also mentioned in a scientific paper Flocks, Herds, and Schools written by Knut Hartmann (Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems * Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg).