Gith

The Gith are a people who were once a proud, unified race that built empires across the Astral Sea, creating gateways to other planes and acting as ancient watchers of mortals, free from the influence of gods, tyranny, and oppression. Because of their freedom, the gith had little use for peacekeepers or armies, and so when the illithid arrived in Astralis, nations of gith were easily persuaded by temptations of power and quickly enslaved by the mind flayers.

The illithid, backed by a gith army whose minds had been clouded by evil and chaos, quickly assaulted the rest of the gith people, driving them from their homes, razing their cities, and crumbling their empires. Those that survived the attack fled across the planes and into hiding, where they continued to live their lives as wary nomads, concerned that the enslaved gith would hunt them down and destroy them.

Githyanki
The githyanki, which translates to "greater mind", are the gith that were enslaved by the illithids millennia ago. These gith were promised power by the illithids, and as time went on and the gith had realized that their power would not be given to them, they revolted against their slave masters and tore down the mind flayer empires. Now, the githyanki live brutally in the Astral Sea, acting as pirates and mercenaries and bounty hunters, with a common goal to hunt down and destroy their weak-minded brethren who fled generations past.

Githzerai
The githzerai, translating to "free mind", are the surviving gith that had fled across the planes to seek sanctuary from their evil kin and the illithid. Their culture has been lost to the fallen empires, and even the most meticulous of sages have lost their peoples' sprawling history. Now, the githzerai live as monastic nomads, always watching their backs in the event that a githyanki killer comes for them.

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