Other githyanki resent these creatures and think Vlaakith has strayed from what Gith wanted.
Duthka'giths: Brutal githyanki shock troops with red dragon blood.Vlaakith is now creating new creatures, her "children": Kr'y'izoth: Former warlocks and gish, now entities of flickering black flame in tattered robes.Tl'aikith: Incorporeal githyanki knights wielding spectral swords.She devours githyanki souls with an artifact called the crown of corruption, tuning them into undead servants: This adventure is about Vlaakith (a descendent of the original lich-queen. written by the mighty Chris Perkins! There is a lot going on in this, with major additions to the lore. If hit by a silver sword, a target must save or lose any psionic abilities for d4 rounds (!)." When drawn, the silver sword transforms into a column of silvery liquid, altering the weapon's balance round by round as the blade's shape flows and shimmers." Awesome.The lich-queen now devours the essence of any githyanki that rises above 16th level.Higher level githyanki can use dimension door, telekinesis and plane shift. They have defined psionic powers that includes blur 3 times a day.Githyanki wizards are called warlocks and multiclassed githyanki are called gish.They now know Common and Draconic, in addition to their own secret language.Even though I am more of a Clyde Caldwell/Larry Elmore guy, to me it is pretty clear that Wayne Reynolds is the ultimate D&D artist.Īnyway, let's see the changes made to the githyanki in 3rd edition: This is around the time when, in my opinion, Wayne Reynolds' art got scary-good. However, the broken shell pieces are worth up to 2,500 gp to a collector." I am so glad young me never bought this adventure. " The conduit in the egg dissipates into the earth along with the yolk once the shell is broken. A mind flayer pops out of the egg and attacks them. In the cave are 4 githyanki studying a red dragon egg. The lair in the back of the book is a short, kind of ridiculous adventure where there's a cave. The githyanki play a game called "gith-flay", a game involving small black and white stones, a cup and a sharp knife.They have to break into a githyanki fortress.
There's an adventure where the PCs go to the astral plane to rescue a wizard. relaxing safely in the protection of the Inn's powerful magic". Inside are all sorts of weird creatures, and some of them are gods in disguise ". To get in to the World Serpent Inn, you have to knock in the air on an imaginary door and invoke the name of a god. They are missing out on a lot of awesome art and lore, as you will see. It's interesting to me how many people just shun 4e completely. This blog has a nice list of most of the githyanki appearances in D&D products. Otherwise I don't think this would ever be finished! I don't even mention the pirates of gith from Spelljammer, or the gith in Dark Sun in this article. There's so much material on the githyanki, I had to pick and choose what to write about. All you need to know is that the githzerai and the githyanki were once the same race (the gith forerunners) but now they hate each other and have opposing philosophies. I'm not going to discuss the githzerai much. The Githyanki are gaunt, psionic escaped slaves who wander the astral sea hunting mind flayers (their former slave-masters) and warring with their "cousin" race, the githzerai. You can pick and choose the stuff that fits your game. The point of this is to have all the lore in one place, so that if you want to use the githyanki in your campaign, the basic material is all right here at your fingertips. In this article, I am going to examine one of my favorite monsters in D&D - the githyanki.
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