Gith (5e)

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Gith Overview 

  

However and whenever it occurred, when the illithids arrived in the Material Plane of the far past, they immediately began to build an empire by enslaving many sentient creatures. They were very successful, and soon their worlds-spanning empire became the largest one the multiverse had ever seen. They had the power — in terms of psychic potency and the manpower of countless slaves—to fashion artificial worlds...

Eventually, the primary slave race of the illithids developed resistance to the mental powers of their masters, and revolted. Led by the warrior Gith, the rebellion spread to all the illithids' worlds, and the empire collapsed. The illithid race itself seemed doomed.

Gith was betrayed by one of her own generals, Zerthimon, who believed she had grown tyrannical and over-aggressive. Civil war erupted, and the race factionalised into the githyanki and the githzerai (and in the Spelljammer campaign setting the Pirates of Gith). This disruption allowed the illithids to retreat to underground strongholds where they still dwell.

Dungeon #100 claims the original home of the gith forerunners was a world known as Pharagos. Currently it is described as, "an unremarkable Material Plane world, a far cry from the hotbed of magical activity and divine intervention that is the Forgotten Realms campaign or the World of Greyhawk." Beneath the Wasting Desert on that world, however, is the petrified corpse of the long-dead patron deity of the ancestors of the gith races. As is recounted in most 1st and 2nd edition sources, the ancestors of the gith forerunners were a human civilization before being modified by countless generations of illithid breeding and profane science.

The background material of the Chainmail game places the gith forerunners in a subterranean empire called Zarum in Western Oerik, where they dominated many other races from their capital city of Anithor. These gith seem to have been divided into a rigid caste system, their lives ruled by ancient ritual. The ruins of Zarum overflow with sacred spaces and temples, though the names of the ancient gith gods are unknown today. The period of Zarum's height is not entirely clear, but grey elf sages speculate it was approximately ... 3,000 years before the present.

At some point, the illithids invaded Zarum from a neighboring plane of existence. Though the gith fought fiercely, they were no match for the psionic might of the mind flayers, and soon they were enslaved. The River of Angry Souls is a remnant of one of the terrible battles between the illithids and the soon-to-be enslaved gith. Many were brought to the Outer Planes and elsewhere to serve as illithid slaves. Other cities in Zarum were transformed into work pits where illithid overseers forced their slaves to toil for countless generations.

After Gith's rebellion, she led her people to the Astral Plane. While a few subject races and surviving illithids remained on Oerth, the gith forerunners have departed the world, seemingly for good. If they retain any interest in the ruins of Zarum, it is well concealed...

Gith Articles

• Githyanki
• Githzerai

Gith as Characters

• Githyanki Lineage
• Githzerai Lineage
• Gith Race
  • Githyanki Subrace
  • Githzerai Subrace
• Greater Silver Sword

Gith as Creatures

(17 official and unofficial Gith)

Name	Type	Subtype	Size	HP	CR (XP)	Alignment	Habitat	Source
Gith Overview	Overview	Humanoid, Gith						Varied
Githyanki Overview	Overview	Humanoid, Gith, Githyanki						Varied
Githyanki Astral Cavalry	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	55	3 (700)	Lawful Evil	Astral Sea, Wildspace	Rlyehable
Githyanki Buccaneer	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	58	3 (700)	Any Alignment	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	Boo's Astral Menagerie
Githyanki Gish	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki, Wizard	Medium	123/130	10 (5,900)	Any Alignment	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	MToF, MotM
Githyanki Kith'rak	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	180	12 (8,400)	Any Alignment	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	MToF, MotM
Githyanki Knight	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	91	8 (3,900)	Lawful Evil	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	Monster Manual (5e)
Githyanki Sarth	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	78	6 (2,300)	Lawful Evil	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	Rlyehable
Githyanki Star Seer	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki, Warlock	Medium	110	7 (2,900)	Any Alignment	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	Boo's Astral Menagerie
Githyanki Supreme Commander	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	187	14 (11,500)	Lawful Evil	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	MToF, MotM
Githyanki Warrior	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki	Medium	49	3 (700)	Lawful Evil	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	Monster Manual (5e)
Githyanki Xenomancer	Humanoid	Gith, Githyanki, Druid	Medium	157	9 (5,000)	Any Alignment	Astral Sea, Desert, Mountain, Urban, Wildspace	Boo's Astral Menagerie
Githzerai Overview	Overview	Humanoid, Gith, Githzerai						Varied
Githzerai Anarch	Humanoid	Gith, Githzerai	Medium	144	16 (15,000)	Any Alignment		MToF, MotM
Githzerai Enlightened	Humanoid	Gith, Githzerai	Medium	112	10 (5,900)	Lawful Neutral	Desert, Mountain, Urban	Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Githzerai Monk	Humanoid	Gith, Githzerai	Medium	38	2 (450)	Lawful Neutral	Desert, Mountain, Urban	Monster Manual (5e)
Githzerai Zerth	Humanoid	Gith, Githzerai	Medium	84	6 (2,300)	Lawful Neutral	Desert, Mountain, Urban	Monster Manual (5e)

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