Editing Gith

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'''Gith''' is the name of the legendary "founder" of the various races that inherited her name, all originating as far back as 1st edition AD&D.  Since that time, they have proven to be one of the most remarkably well-developed races and story arcs for D&D, with almost every edition either providing additional background for the race, or progressing their story in some way.  The only place they do not really appear much (if at all) is in BECMI D&D, which mostly also means they do not appear in the Mystara campaign setting.

None of this is to be confused with the [[Giff]], who might sound almost the same, but who are entirely unrelated.

==Literary Background==
The actual creation of the githyanki owes, apparently, to no less than George R. R. Martin himself, in his very first novel, "Dying of the Light".  (It should come as no shocker that the book is pretty fucking grimdark: it's set in the final days of a dying world where almost every single character dies.  Yes, it seems GRRM never met any characters he didn't like killing off before the end of his books...)  Anyway, a guy named Charles "Charlie" Stross, a British author who was into space opera and Lovecraftian horror (considerably later, better-known for his excellent ''Laundry Files'' series), borrowed the name of the race from GRRM's book, and no shit, he retooled it for his own homebrew AD&D campaign.  He submitted it to the ancient White Dwarf magazine as part of their "Fiend Factory" articles for new monsters, and it was selected among other monsters for inclusion in the brand new Fiend Folio.  In fact, the githyanki was even selected to be the monster depicted on the cover.

These origins give seem to give some perspective to why gith-folk are consistently one of the better-loved "quirk" races in D&D, both among neckbeards (who love the weird blend of literature, homebrew, and back-porting that made them an official part of the game) and even the newbies (who seem to like having something that breaks a lot of generic fantasy molds, like elves and orcs, which may get overused).  Even when fans of D&D hate psionics, it's really not hard at all to simply switch out psionics with magic and keep the rest mostly intact.

==1st Edition==
The first mention of Gith in the Fiend Folio tells the basic story of her race.  According to the story there, the [[illithid]]s - known at that time only as mind flayers - conquered a population of evil [[human]]s "millennia ago" (subjective to whatever the start date of a given game setting is), using them both as slaves and as food.  The humans were unable to free themselves for centuries, until they developed their unique powers and strength.  At a certain point, a supreme leader named Gith led the rebellion against their captors and freed their people.

The entries in Fiend Folio note that the [[githyanki]] and [[githzerai]] races split, but doesn't say why or exactly when.  Both had mostly full access to the early, very nascent psionics rules (githyanki only lacked Defense Mode J), which is pretty interesting: mind flayers, as listed in the 1st edition Monster Manual, actually had '''less''' psionic ability than the gith-folk eventually developed.

The [[githyanki]] were established in the [[Fiend Folio]] and [[Manual of the Planes]] with what would become their fundamental lore for the rest of time:
*They largely live and fight from strongholds in the [[Astral Plane]], with scouting and raiding into other planes, including the [[Material Plane]], to look for their hated enemies (illithids and githzerai) and take supplies they need.  Though they have Material Plane lairs, these are more like outposts than real settlements.
*They have a [[lich]]-queen of higher level who destroys any githyanki that levels up to a certain point.  In theory, this is to prevent any of them from becoming too powerful to overthrow the lich-queen.
*They use "baroque" armaments of very unusual and alien manufacture.  Their signature gear is the ''silver swords'' they use in astral combat to sever someone's silver cord (ideally killing someone instantly).  There usually two grades of these swords, and they are usually two-handed swords.
*They have a pact with [[Chromatic Dragon|red dragons]], which allows them to work together, both for protection and raiding.
*They can have class levels as [[fighter]]s, [[Wizard|magic-users]], or [[Blackguard|"anti-paladins"]] (basically evil [[cavalier]]s).  The only multi-class option they can have are as fighter/magic-users called "[[gish]]" (which became the origin of the term for fighter/wizard hybrids in future online discussions of such builds).

The [[githzerai]], a splinter faction, isn't given a reason from their split from the githyanki, and are also given a basic background:
*They live in [[Limbo]], in fortress-monasteries they build of various pieces of chaos matter from the plane.  They have a metropolis called the Floating City, or the Citadel of Gith.  Their Prime Material strongholds are apparently fucking adamantine-walled towers, so... yeah.
*They are ruled by an immortal [[wizard]]-king, [[Zaerith Menyar-Ag-Gith]] (the Great Githzerai) who also prevents his people from getting too high of a level.
*They use the lesser silver swords, but all their stuff is manufactured pretty plain in construction.
*They have no pact with red dragons, but make up for it with better inherent psionic abilities.
*They also favor [[fighter]]s and [[Wizard|magic-users]], but also have a few [[monk]]s.  Their multi-class fighter/magic-users are called "zerths" at this point.

There's not much else from this edition, though Tales from the Outer Planes offers an adventure and a couple of lairs involving the githyanki and githzerai.

==2nd Edition==
This was the edition when the gith ''really'' took off, as this was when [[TSR]] started fully exploring the [[plane]]s and thusly crafted the [[Great Wheel]].

===Basic "Core" Stuff===
They appear first in the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix (these extras were printed with hole-punched pages so you could add them to a fuckhuge binder with all your Monstrous Compendium stuff in one place), and they get a bit of a concise facelift that reprints a very slightly expands on the previous material.  Everything was reprinted in the later Monster Manual (since TSR realized that loose-leaf sheets could get run through a copying machine, and gamers never needed the internet to pirate intellectual property).

The term "[[githyanki]]" is noted in 2nd edition to specifically mean "sons of Gith", and it is noted here that while the githyanki gladly fuck with other races and beings, they do not quarrel among themselves.  It also lists a number of special groups or castes among them who perform specific tasks: g'lathk (farmers who tend artificial chambers used to grow fungi, plants that don't need sunlight, and aquatic plants in water-gardens); mlar (the mages who use their magic for construction instead of combat); hr'a'cknir (craftsmen who harness astral psychic energy to perform unspecified jobs).  Because the [[cavalier]] didn't really make the cut to 2nd edition, githyanki "knights" were [[paladin]]s that used evil-version abilities (''detect good'', ''command undead'', etc.).

The [[githzerai]] got similar details.  Their capital city was called [[Shra'kt'lor]] here, and the entry provides us with the Legend of [[Zerthimon]].  After Gith defeated the mind flayers, Zerthimon opposed her on the grounds that she was a mean, evil bitch.  That went about as well as you could expect, leading to actual fighting between those who remained loyal to Gith, and those who felt she was an evil bitch. Zerthimon died, but his faction got away. The githzerai believe that Zerthimon is a divine figure now, and when he comes back like Jesus he's going to gather up the "zerths" (their term for fighter/mages) and lead his people to paradise. Apparently, the wizard-king is not happy with this legend or the religious fervor it creates, since it challenges his authority, but he hasn't been able to get rid of it.

Another tidbit in this early material for githzerai is that while the githyanki are generally militaristic and aggressive, the githzerai prefer to keep to themselves.  They do, however, get a nice party together called a "rrakkma", which spends 3 months scouring the planes for [[illithid]]s to kill; githzerai consider it an honor to participate in these little excursions.

They are noted for having [[Prime Material]] strongholds, but no mention of adamantine walls (and seriously, who wouldn't massacre these guys for that much delicious building material), though it does mention that the stronghold's presence destroys the landscape for miles around, possibly due to the extra-planar nature of the building material, or just mages fucking shit up to keep out trespassers. They aren't trying to deliberate mess shit up, though; the strongholds are, apparently, simply to give them a place to stage raids on any githyanki they find on the Prime Material.

Oh, and 2nd edition also notes here that neither gith-folk give a shit about the [[Blood War]]; they got illithids and each other to fuck up, no time for messing about with an eternal war involving a bunch of bloodthirsty, lying-ass fiends.

===Athasian Gith (Dark Sun)===
Later on in the [[Dark Sun]] setting, they added a strangely-familiar race called the gith, who were mostly savages with more psionics than magic, and no artificial limit on their levels (i.e. nothing killing them for getting a certain level).  The adventure Black Spine gives us the gory details.  The githyanki were on Athas thousands of years ago to create a fortress, Yathazor, which would act as a base of operations for their usual raiding and such.  They had an advantage, because their plane shift ability was pretty scot-free transport in and out of a generally impregnable area; they even set up a magic barrier that took planar-style keys to get in an out of, making their little stronghold pretty impregnable.

Until, apparently, a githzerai force infiltrated the area, and set off a "psionic devastator" which mind-fucked the githyanki into barbaric idiocy... who became the ancestors of the Athasian gith.  (The adventure even offers speculation that this event could have been a trigger for the development of psionics on Athas overall.)

4th edition offers an alternative take on the subject, saying that the gith are degenerate descendants of a race that visited Athas in a [[Spelljammer|"vast silvery craft"]], only to be stranded by the Gray, whereupon a negative reaction to Athas' unique magical field warped them into savages, though some tribes possess a primitive mythology which centers on trying to rebuild their ancestral craft so they can leave this world.

In all editions, Athasian gith are bitter enemies of the [[tarek]]s.

Whilst official products have largely focused on Athasian gith as monsters, they have actually received player character conversions! Fans converted them to 2nd edition in the Complete Book of Athasian Humanoids, and to 3e in Terrors of Athas - but beyond that, [[Paizo]] also gave them a PC writeup in their first Dark Sun bestiary article in [[Dungeon Magazine]] #110!

The fanmade stats look like this:
::Ability Score Minimum/Maximum: Strength 5/20, Dexterity 8/20, Constitution 5/20, Intelligence 5/20, Wisdom 5/, Charisma /18
::Ability Score Adjustments: +1 Strength, +1 Dexterity, -1 Constitution, -2 Charisma (but increase Cha by +2 when interacting with other gith)
::Racial Class/Level Limits: [[Fighter]] 16, [[Gladiator]] 14, [[Defiler (Dark Sun)|Defiler]] 12, [[Wizard|Preserver]] 10, [[Cleric]] 12, [[THief]] 12, [[Psion]]icist Unlimited
:::Racial Thieving Skill Adjustments: -5% Open Locks, +5% Hide in Shadows, +10% Detect Noise, -15% Climb Walls, -10% Bribe Officials, +10% Dig Tunnel, +5% Escape Bonds
::Natural Armor Class: 8
::Movement: 10
::Advantages:
:::A gith can "Spring", leaping 20 feet. If a gith Springs into the first round of combat, it gains a +2 attack roll bonus in that round.
:::Gith can attack twice per round with their claws if uinarmed, doing 1d4 damage.
:::Infravision 60 feet
:::Can detect slopes and other changes in terrain when traveling underground
:::Gain Jumping as a bonus proficiency, and higher levels in Jumping c an increase the distance of Springing.
:::+1 attack roll and +1 damage bonus when wielding spears.
::Disadvantages:
:::Gith despise "traitors" who are cooperating with non-gith, and [[Gue'vasa|will single them out as top priority unless more obvious threats are present]], such as a [[half-giant]] or a [[b'rohg]].
:::Gith have a vulnerable nerve cluster on their back. If a called shot successfully hits them on their back, a gith must pass a Save vs. Paralyzation or be Stunned for 1d4 rounds.

::Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Dexterity, -2 Intelligence, -2 Charisma
::Size: Medium
::Base Land Speed: 30 feet
::+10 racial bonus to Jump checks.
::+4 racial bonus to Hide and Move Silently checks.
::+2 natural armor bonus.
::Natural Weaponry: 2 Claw attacks that do 1d4 damage.
::Low-Light Vision
::[[Favored Class]]: [[Rogue]]
::[[Level Adjustment]]: +1

Paizo's 3e version, in comparison, looks like this:
::Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Strength, +2 Wisdom, -2 Intelligence
::Size: Medium
::Type: Humanoid
::Base Land Speed: 30 feet
::Darkvision 60 feet
::Naturally Psionic: 2 bonus psi power points at 1st level.
::Psi-Like Abilities: Athasian gith gain the following psi-like abilities at the indicated levels. Manifester level equal to 1/2 Hit Dice (minimum 1st), save DCs are Charisma based.
:::1st Level: Matter Agittion 3/day, Control Flames 3/day
:::3rd Level: Biofeedback 3/day
:::6th level: Control Body 3/day
:::9th Level: Psychofeedback 3/day, Telekinetic Thrust 1/day
::Leaper: Athasian gith gain a +10 racial bonus on Jump checks.
::Natural Weapons: 2 Claw attacks that do 1d4 + Strength modifier Slashing damage.
::[[Favored Class]]: [[Barbarian]]
::[[Level Adjustment]]: +2

===Pirates of Gith (Spelljammer)===
The [[Spelljammer]] setting gives us one final offshoot of the Gith-folk, the Pirates of Gith.  Nothing too fancy here: they're just githyanki that headed for arcane space instead of the [[Astral Plane]].  Unfortunately for other space-sailors in the setting, the Pirates of Gith are pretty brutal: they actually have [[cleric]]s, and all of them can get to level 11 without worrying about some undead bitch destroying them.  The way they're described is that they seem a bit more brutal and/or savage than their githyanki cousins, but they know how to fly ships with helms, and their innate magic abilities allow them to do some weird stuff: they can shift elven-crafted spelljamming ships into the Astral Plane.  Yes, the whole ship, passengers, and cargo, all at once.  They can't fly their ships through the phlogiston with their abilities, though, and they can only plane-hop an elven ship of 50 tons or less.  Oh, also, these fuckers are carnivores, and even cannibals as needed, so they're like the Reavers from Firefly only intelligent (have fun introducing your players to that little tidbit).

===A Guide To The Astral Plane (Planescape)===
[[Planescape]] came along and really got down to the brass tacks with a concise history of the Gith-folk.  A book in the setting called "A Glimpse Through the Mists" tells that in really ancient times (as in before most Prime Material Plane worlds had been created), the [[illithid]]s had an empire that covered many Prime worlds (and, given what was mentioned in Spelljammer, most of the crystalline spheres of arcane space) and even had spread into the planes themselves; the illithids were such a threat that it is even the [[devil]]s and [[demon]]s of the [[Blood War]] stopped a moment to take a hard look at the tentacled assholes. The humans they had enslaved were twisted after an uncounted time into different beings, who had begun to develop psionic powers and martial strength. That's when Gith, the paragon of her kind, rose up a rebellion double-quick and after the fighting was done, there was no more illithid empire to threaten anything on the planes or the Prime Material.

Unfortunately, Gith decided that this meant it was her and her people's time to forge an empire built on conquest. [[Zerthimon]], who had his own following that felt otherwise, challenged her plans and leadership, calling Gith out for being as evil as the bastards that had enslaved them. The civil war killed Zerthimon, saw the githzerai flee to Limbo, and managed to shatter Gith's plans for conquest due to her losses.  She withdrew the githyanki ("the children of Gith") to the Astral Plane and set up shop. Eventually, one of her advisers, named Vlaakith, said that they needed allies. They tried and failed to get the [[slaad]]i to turn on the githzerai, and then Vlaakith suggested meeting with [[Tiamat]]. Supposedly, the only people who know what happened or was said at the meeting are Gith, Tiamat, and one of Tiamat's consorts, the red wyrm Ephelomon.  What is known is that Gith never came back: Ephelomon went to the Astral, informed Vlaakith that she was now Gith's successor, and told the githyanki that they had [[Chromatic Dragon|red dragon]]s ready to help them fuck shit up.

This sourcebook gives a huge amount of additional detail after the creation legend.  There are notes that allude to a very slight reptilian physiology (tying back to the Athasian gith); additional catch-words in their language; more details on their professions; and stats and background for [[Vlaakith CLVII]], the [[Lich]]-Queen herself.  This book basically established much of the lore that got reused in 3rd Edition, and if you want a good look at the githyanki as a society and whatnot, this is the place to do it.

This was also the edition of ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', and its githzerai party member, Dak'kon the Pariah, is a vitally-important milestone in the history of that race's development, for reasons listed on that page.

==3rd Edition==
The 3.0e Manual of the Planes and 3.5e Monster Manual I describes the Githyanki as follows:

:''"Githyanki are an ancient line of humanlike beings residing on the Astral Plane, filling their armories for their next skirmish, raid, or war.

:''They are gaunt, averaging 6 feet 3 inches tall and typically weighing around 170 pounds. They possess rough, yellow skin and black hair that is often pulled into one or more topknots. Their eyes gleam darkly, and their ears are pointed and serrated in back. They enjoy elaborate dress and baroque armor. In fact, they revere weapons and armor, and it is not uncommon for githyanki to show more regard for their panoply than for a mate.

:''Githyanki speak their own secret tongue, but most also know Common and Draconic. Like dwarves, githyanki are craftmasters, although they focus exclusively on items of warfare. Their items are distinctive, and nongithyanki who acquire them run the risk of immediate retribution should they encounter githyanki."

:''"In eons past, the mind flayers enslaved entire races, including the forerunners of the githyanki. Centuries of captivity bred hatred, nurtured resolve, and finally instilled psionic powers into these slaves. With mental armaments of their own and a powerful leader to rally behind (the legendary Gith), the slaves instigated a cross-planar struggle that, in the end, threw down the mind flayer empire, bringing freedom to the surviving slaves. However, these survivors soon split into the racially distinct githyanki and their mortal enemies, the githzerai (see the Githzerai entry, below). Each constantly attempts the extinction of the other. This animosity has burned through the centuries, warping the githyanki into the evil, militaristic creatures they are today. Both creatures’ hatred of mind flayers knows no bounds, though, and they will break off hostilities to slay illithids if the opportunity presents itself.

:''Githyanki live within massive fortresses adrift in the Astral Plane. Here they conduct commerce, manufacture goods, grow food, and live out their lives. Family dwellings are nonexistent, since most githyanki prefer their own abode; however, githyanki are often found in groups, honing their fighting skills. A fortress contains noncombatants (mostly children) equal to 20% of the fighting population. Githyanki males and females may be found in almost any role or class.

:''The githyanki have no deity but instead pay homage to a lich-queen. A jealous and paranoid overlord, she devours the essence of any githyanki that rises above 16th level. In addition to eliminating a potential rival, the lich-queen enhances her power with the stolen life essence"


Githzerai are described as follows:

:''Githzerai are a hard-hearted, humanlike people who dwell on the plane of Limbo, secure in the protection of their hidden monasteries.

:''They are thinner and taller than humans, with sharp features, long faces, and eyes of gray or yellow. Severe and serious, the githzerai tend toward somberness both in dress and personality.

:''As a rule, githzerai are closed-mouthed, keep their own counsel, and trust few outside their own kind. They speak their own language (similar enough to the tongue of the githyanki that either could understand the other if they chose to speak instead of fight), but many also speak Common."

:''"The githzerai forerunners united under the command of the rebel Gith (see the Githyanki entry, above) and threw down the plane-spanning empire of the mind flayers. Once free, the former slaves split ideologically and eventually racially, becoming the githzerai and their foes, the githyanki. The githzerai’s history of imprisonment was the foundation of their monastic lifestyle, in which all githzerai learn from childhood how to eradicate potential oppressors and enemies (anyone not a githzerai).

:''Githzerai live within self-contained, fortresslike monasteries hidden deep in the swirling chaos of Limbo. While disorder rules outside, stability holds sway inside. Each monastery is ultimately under the control of a sensei, a monk of at least 16th level, and follows a strict schedule of chants, meals, martial arts training, and devotions, according to a particular sensei’s philosophy. A monastery contains noncombatants (mostly children) equal to 15% of the fighting population. Githzerai males and females may be found in almost any role or class."

There are minor differences between the MotP and MMI versions of these descriptions but about 90% of the words were copy-pasted from the former to the latter. The biggest changes were the omission of the Githyanki language section and a shortening of the physical descriptions of both races. The Githyanki's favored class is [[fighter]], and the Githzerai's favored class is [[monk]]. Both have 1 racial hit die and a +2 [[level adjustment]], in both 3.0e and 3.5e.

"The Lich Queen's Beloved," an adventure in Dungeon Magazine #100, introduced the Sha'sal Khou, a renegade organization of githzerai and githyanki attempting to collaborate to mend their divided race, which operated mostly covertly for obvious reasons, and was unfortunately penetrated by outside political influences; their highest ranking leader is a githyanki warlord, Zetch'r'r, who, while legitimately sympathetic to his group's actual aims, hoped to lead the reunified race on a path of planar conquest, just as Gith tried to do long ago.

===Eberron===
According to ''Player's Guide to Eberron'', the two types of Gith in [[Eberron]] were separately created by the Mind Flayers ~9000 years ago as slaves. They revolted when the Giants blew up one of Eberron's moons to stop the [[Daelkyr]], but could never get along with eachother. Gith herself is absent (or at least not mentioned) in this version.

Setting creator Keith Baker prefers a much cooler alternative: The Gith are refugees of a previous version of Eberron. It was invaded by the Daelkyr (who created most of Eberron's aberrations, including Mind Flayers), and they didn't have Gatekeepers around to save it. Gith herself led the refugees into the Astral Plane before the two split. The Astral Plane, being timeless, was unaffected when that version of Eberron was eventually destroyed and recreated - leaving the Gith 'orphans', and incredibly resentful of the occupants of the modern version of Eberron, because (a) the humans and such ''have'' a homeworld to live on, and don't realize how good they have it, and (b) the gith can't even invade, because they'll fall apart from being incompatible with the current edition of the Material Plane; they're stuck in the Astral and they can't have kids there, so they're doomed to die slowly.

==4th Edition==
Despite the reputation 4e has for changing lore immensely, even going so far as to replace [[Limbo]] and the [[Elemental Planes]] and [[Energy Planes]] with the [[Elemental Chaos]], the lore for the gith-races ultimately didn't change that much in 4e. Perhaps the biggest tweak to the overall story is that 4e asserts the ultimate reason for the civil was that Gith basically turned out to be a ''lousy'' peace-time leader, running the now-free gith like a great military army and ultimately keeping them as little freer than they had been under the [[illithid]]s. Whatever the reason, the races split and went their separate ways, with Gith leading her [[githyanki]] followers to the [[Astral Sea]], where they founded a loosely-knit empire of raiders, centered on their capital city of [[Tu'narath]]. In comparison, the [[githzerai]] moved to the [[Elemental Chaos]], although they also maintain hidden communes in remote areas of the mortal world.

4th edition also provided the most concrete answer to Gith's fate so far.  In "Secrets of the Astral Sea", it's stated that Gith bartered away her soul, and the souls of Vlaakith and all future githyanki leaders, in exchange for the Red Dragon Pact. It also notes that nobody is sure what Tiamat has actually gained from the pact; the three most common theories are that she mistakenly believed the githyanki would ultimately become her personal dedicated race of humanoid worshippers (only to be backstabbed by their psycho-atheist beliefs), that she has manipulated the contract so she can call in one fucking '''huge''' debt when the githyanki finally end their Crusade by killing off the illithids, or that the souls of the githyanki leaders hold sufficient magical power that she can ultimately use to force the githyanki to serve her.

Further details would be provided in [[Dragon Magazine]] #377; initially, Gith had reluctantly sought alliances with other deities, but was rejected either due to being too evil, too warlike, too weak, or simply because she refused to let the githyanki worship a god. The closest thing she had to a success was in [[Baator]], with [[Archdevil#Dispater|Dispater]], and even then they couldn't close the deal because Gith wisely refused to sell the souls of all githyanki in perpetuity to the [[archdevil]]. Instead, Dispater ended up arranging for the meeting between Gith, Vlaakith and Ephelomon, with himself as mediator and observer, of course. It was Dispater who suggested that he be allowed to "host" Gith's soul in his own "care" for the duration of the pact. Curiously, he did not speak up against Gith making one of the terms of the contract that the githyanki would be free to pursue their own destinies and never be required to be subservient to [[Tiamat]] - a part of the bargain that Ephelomon agreed to and which probably put him in Tiamat's bad books for centuries.

In the 4e adventure path, [[Scales of War]], because Tiamat breaks the pact between herself and the githyanki, Gith's soul is ultimately freed from Baator. Returning to [[Tu'narath]], she possesses a githyanki woman and claims to be Vlaakith reborn, ultimately aiding the party in defeating Emperor Zetch'r'r before taking rulership over the githyanki once again. Her ultimate plans are left to the DM from there.

==5th Edition==
In 5e, the Gith retain their historic traits, such as the githyanki being raiders and conquerors and the githzerai being monks who hang around in Limbo, and them both hating each other and hating the illithids more. There have been some individual reworks, but those are better-outlined on their own individual pages.

==Gallery==
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Githyanki_1e.png|The very first depiction of a githyanki.
Githyanki MM 2e.png|Now slightly harder to confuse for an undead creature.
Githyanki_3e.jpg|The definitive model, or so it seems.
Githyanki_4e.jpg|The Githyanki as they appear in 4e. Notably more muscular than in their earlier depictions.
Githyanki_5e.jpg|Arrogant, haughty raiders of the [[Astral]].
Githzerai_1e.jpg|Can you believe this is how they used to look?
Githzerai MM 2e.png|Nope, color doesn't make it any less stupid. (And the pink underpants definitely don't help.)
Githzerai_3e.jpg|Now we're talking.
Githzerai_4e.jpg|And they're the good guys, who could guess?
Githzerai 5e.jpg|Mysterious [[monk]]s from otherworldly realms.
TotOP Githyanki.jpg
Gith MM 2e.png|The degenerate gith of [[Dark Sun]]
Athasian Gith (4e).jpg|4e's depiction of Athasian Gith
Pirate gith MM 2e.png|The Gith Pirates of [[Spelljammer]].
Githyanki vs Mindflayer.jpg
DiTerlizzi Githyanki.jpg
Vlaakith CLVII.jpg|Vlaakith CLVII
3e Giths.jpg
Githzerai Family.jpg
Githzerai Monk vs Oni.jpg
Rrathmal.jpg
Githyanki Astral Sailor.jpg
Gith DotMM.png
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