Auryn, stylized as AURYN, is a 5-member British-style Spanish boy band founded in 2010. Signed to Warner Music, they sing in English and Spanish.
The band is made up of five members that appeared previously on various talent show series in Spain. Various members of the band have taken part at different occasions in contests like Factor X, Veo Veo, La Batalla de los Coros and at Junior Eurovision Song Contest qualifications. Dani Fernández represented Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006, and remains the last Spanish entrant on the competition.
Blas Cantó and Dani Fernández have studied trumpet and piano at musical conservatories / schools. Carlos Marco has studied vocal techniques at "Escuela Orfeo" in Alicante. Álvaro Gango has taken part in gospel and classical choirs and has worked as actor and David Lafuente has learned in musical bands.
AURYN is an Ouroboros talisman in The Neverending Story, empowered by the Childlike Empress. In the novel, AURYN is always spelled in capital letters and is revered by all Fantasticans as "The Gem" and "The Glory" (German: das Kleinod, der Glanz). While the book makes noteworthy the point that the image of AURYN is on its "cover(s)", it does not actually refer to it as AURYN. The name of the amulet is not the same as that of a simple inanimate object. The word 'the' never precedes that amulet's name (i.e., never "the AURYN"). Instead, it is used simply as AURYN, a proper noun like a person's name.
Two mythological serpents, symmetrical, bite at the other's tail. (In the film, these form a Celtic knot; whereas in the book, they form an oval). One serpent is white and one is black. Each has an eye to correspond to the color of the book's print (red and green). The two snakes represent the dual nature of the two worlds, Fantastica and Reality, but also the twin nature of their mutual creation and destruction. On the back of AURYN are these words:
I stood in the room when the light in her eyes dimmed.
Forever it faded and burned out, invaded.
I sat by the bed with his hand in my hand.
It fell and it went limp, breathlessly leaving our world.
You think that I'm dumb, that I'm too young to know such things.
But what have I done? I've had to handle everything.
You think that I'm one whose absent in the pageantry.
But I could heal your world.
Your world is dirty.
Your world is burning.
Your world is hurting for me.
A million dark faces, burned hands in embraces,
all falling to places where you could never come back.
My heart was freezing, my mind disbelieving, they went
down so easy, pleading, fleeing from our world.
You think that I'm dumb, that I'm too young to know such things.
But look what I've done. I have to handle everything.
You think that I'm one whose absent in the pageantry.
But I could heal your world.
Your world is dirty.
Your world is burning.
Your world is hurting for me.
You think that I'm not brave,
that I'm too young to know such things.
You think that I'd cave, that I can't handle anything.
If only I had saved a piece of what I used to love...
Then I could heal your world.
Your world is dirty.
Your world is burning.
Your world is yearning.