D&D Lore - Githyanki & Githzerai
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Episode 116! We explore the history around the Githyanki and Githzerai. Once thralls of the mind flayer civilization, they broke free and created homes in the Astral Plane and Limbo.
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Good video, but I wish you had delved a little into the 'real world' history of the race. They were created by popular science fiction author Charles Stross, when he was much younger, and appeared in a British gaming magazine called _White Dwarf_ (#12) as a part of a regular column devoted to featuring new monsters for _AD&D_. He did borrow the name and some of the inspiration for the race from George R.R. Martin's novel, _Dying of the Light_. He also contributed the Githzerai to the Fiend Folio, where the Githyanki also appeared. Stross was also the creator of the Chaotic extra-planar race of the Slaad, and the original Death Knight.
Had no idea that Stross was into DnD, but i guess i should have figured that out from reading the Laundry Files series.
Same dude made Death Knights? And Slaad? Wicked. 👍
I love that you didn't forget to mention that GRRM created the name of the Githyanki 🙏🏼
I had no idea Charles Stross created the Gith, but my Baldur's Gate 3 Githyanki being a Great Old One flavor Warlock is now *extra* funny, considering Stross' Laundry Files books.
A githzerai Way of the Kensei monk is the closest you can get in D&D to playing a Jedi.
I might multiclass it, but damn close, yeah.
@@sagesheahan6732 a warlock blade pack as well?
Just play with the Psychic Warrior Class from Unearthed Arcana. Get a sunblade and done and dusted, you're a jedi.
Of course from a lore perspective, a paladin is the best equivalent, as far as role in the setting and greater mythological context. An order of magical knights that work to bring order and justice to the world, protecting the weak and destroying evil.
paperbullet1945 Elven bladesingers come just as close, think of the weave as the force, add that their blades are literally whirring and singing as they fight with finesse and not brute force, seeming to dance. Also the admiration for them as defenders of the elven people and the like
A bladesinger
Baldurs Gate got me interested in the gith because they're such a blunt, martial race.
After Baldur's Gate 3's intro cinematic everyone's probably here for lore catch-up...just me? Ok.
As someone playing baldurs gate 3 who isn't into dnd, this summary was very helpful, as the gith were the only race where I had no idea what they were about.
If your interested in seeing the other side of them Planescape Torment has a githzerai character
All these comments and none of yall said anything about playing a Githyanki. All githzerai lmao
Well.
I've been playing a Githyanki Battlemaster who is a double (well, maybe triple, and soon to be quadruple XD) agent. Currently an employee of the Acq Inc main office as a team leader/Documancer, and I'm also a Githyanki Knight, in direct service of Vlaakith herself, working to stop a mindflayer invasion force. On top of all that, I'm allied with Tiamat herself, working to further her goals, AND I'm about to make some kinda deal with Asmodeus himself, in person. It's been a wild ride. Also spearheaded an assault on Castle ravenloft with Argenvost as an Ally too XD
sounds like a cool campaign! How went the assault on Castle Ravenloft ?
Jorphdan, every video: the PH is silent
Me, every time i see his name: Jorffdan
I'm not the only one?
Endure and in enduring grow strong.
I recently made a Gith Star Druid, someone who is searching for portents on how to make the two people come back together, because her parents are from the two Giths. Got a bit carried away with the back story and 8 pages in I just got to where her parents made her, lol. Fascinating history and lots to work with in this race.
Great timing. We're actually in the middle of a big campaign my friend is running throughout the Astral Plane and Limbo.
We were teleported to Limbo on a Githzerai temple, and have slowly made our way to the Astral Plane and the Githyanki city of Tu' Narath. We actually just met Vlakith the Lich, and the plot is there's a Mind Flayer takeover happening in the city..We've seen several gith with incision marks in their heads and fought one with an Intellect Devourer living inside it's head. The gith stole a relic from the Material Plane that we're trying to get back.
I've gotta say..Between the Githyanki, the Githzerai, the old leader named "Gith" and the infighting between these two factions...It was very very confusing to just receive this information through regular play. I love D&D lore but I had a hell of a time keeping it all straight in my head haha. Between the weirdness of Limbo, the psionics, the politics, and the underplot going on it's really just been a lot for my little notebook to take. I especially like the information on the deal with Tiamat. I always found it very strange how the Githyanki would ride around on Red Dragons when I saw Red Dragons as being incredibly proud, powerful and generally untameable. It seemed demeaning to me and I'm really happy to finally have a reason for it.
I'll definitely be passing this video on to the rest of my group!
Lol… imagine worshipping a leader like Vlaakith who decided to become a Lich despite living on a plane where one does not age…
Yeaaaah boy! more history! *takes notes for Faerun Heroes*, we don't have gith at all yet....
So cool. I love what you do for us! I’ll be throwing in some Gith quests for my players now for sure. Maybe helping a young Githyanki hunt down a mindflayer hive in order to achieve status or some such
My current game is set partially in the astral plane, and githyanki raiders are one of the main antagonists of the first "chapter." I plan on making my players choose between nearly eradicating the githyanki on the astral plane, or keeping them around and trying to forge a tentative alliance to take down a conclave of mindflayers.
This channel is truly a gem! I have learned so much, a lot of it I wanted to find out during my times in Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Thank you so much Jorphdan!
You did such a good job, you could've told more. Your info was amazingly in depth and none of us would've minded more of your details.
It's 2023 and we can now play as githyankis in Baldur's Gate 3. Tho a lot of people seem to have hate for them (like lae'zel doesn't get much love from my friends😅) and many questioned why there's no subrace option to be githzerais
I'm running a Planescape campaign right now, and while I had a lot of that information already, I appreciated the gaps you filled in for me. Great video!
Happy to help 😄
I wanted to know about this after watching the"search for Bob".
In some 4th edition document it was stated that Zerthimon actually defeated Gith in battle but spared her life only for her to backstab and kill him.
This is perfect for me. BG3 has got me into D&D and I wanted to learn about them from a video unpolluted by Baldur's Gate 3 so to speak.
My favorite DnD videos by far, keep it going dude
I still can't get behind the "Githyanki are born from eggs" bit that they keep pushing. It just takes things a bridge too far for the divide between the two sides. In my mind it makes the fight of the Sha'sal Khou rather pointless as now the two sides are not only philosophically opposed, but physiologically as well. Having plots attempting to reconcile the two sides is one of the more interesting things in Planescape for me.
I became interested in Githyanki and Githzerai after story of Dak'Kon from Torment. Gith seemed a hero who felt from grace and lost herself in rage
Right on time. Starting a campaign this weekend and my roommate wants to play a gith.
Perfect timing for a lore video on one of my favorite D&D races! I'm currently in the process of homebrewing a monk subclass with psionic features to really try to capture the essence of the Githzerai zerths (currently thinking of calling it "Way of the Adamantine Mind"). Thanks for the info Jorphdan!
Came back to this video to refresh my memory after the baldur's gate 3 cinematic. That game looks awesome.
Super excited for Baldur's Gate 3! :D
I love that you meet the leader Dakkon in torment.
big help with knowing the lore as i randomly got the race for a D&D character and needed the lore so i knew what to put for my backstory
Every time I hear about the Gith, it just fuels my desire to play a Githzerai with a southern gentleman / simple hyperchicken from a backwoods asteroid voice and demeanor.
Loving your last few videos, keep em coming.
Video made my day! Love the Gith story line.
The ability to play a Githyanki is the sole motivating force for me to get back into the game.
It's fun! Doesn't fit with the lore but I want to play an Arcane Githzerai Cleric! It's on my character bucket list.
I still recall walking into our local Toys 'r Us store on the day the first edition Fiend Folio retailed. The FF cover art was good but they had changed the AD&D book format... from dark and forboding even enticing... to bright blue with the FF.
Chainmail being the foundation ruleset for D&D.
Playing a Githzerai Eldritch Knight right now, focusing on spell selection that emphasizes the psionic flavor of them in lieu of published official psionics.
Actually running an entire campaign that deals with the direct fall out of the Gith overthrowing the Illithid empire. so yeah, lots of gith on both sides of the civil war involved.
One of my friends decided to join my game as a psionic monk Githzerai. I was hoping you would have a video on the subject.
Sounds awesome
I came up with a Githzerai Soulknife Rogue. He’s been tasked with covertly exploring and documenting the prime material plane as Limbo has begun bleeding into it, which is steadily causing his people’s stronghold to weaken and the slaadi in their territory to grow more aggressive. Personality wise, he’s somewhere between Spock and the Neutrals from Futurama.
Seriously good vid in all aspects bro 👍🏽
Great video, thats the stuff I am often looking for when trying to learn about the world of DnD.(I am pretty new to it) Just a rough overview off the main aspects, not too much detail. Thanks a lot!
I'm running a Githzerai in the "Dragon Heist Campaign". Our DM opted to run it level 3-7. Looking forward to trying this race for the first time. Have decided to play as a 2n level Hexblade Warlock / 1st level Shadow Sorcerer. Why a heist? He is obsessed with building a "ship" to get out of Waterdeep. He's an astral drifter, saved by the grace of Ptah, a deity associated with planar travel, and the god of knowledge and secrets. My character, Zarkahn, is the sole survivor of his spelljammer crew. I never realized the Githzerai dwelled in Limbo, until watching your video. Guess I'll say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up with a crew of githyanki to sail the astral sea. I went with the the githzerai race for the shield spell, as the jump spell associated with githyanki is a bit lame. Playing against type, as his intelligence dump score would probably make him taste like spoiled food to an illithid. He has now been marooned in Waterdeep, as he is ambitiously adventuring to raise enough gold to build a "ship". He uses mask of many faces to stealth around in the guise of other local human and drow species. All hell is sure to break loose in this campaign, as I hear there might be a mindflayer crime boss in this setting. Really looking forward to seeing how this all plays out. One question that never seems to get answered in any of the published lore. What would githyanki and githzerai eat for sustenance? Mindflayers eat brains, what do the gith eat normally? Curious, because I thought it would be funny to be socially awkward, especially in taverns where they have food that might seem odd to a gith.
Watched this video today doing research on githzerai to make a way of the astral self githzerai who took on the mantle of being on of bahamut's followers. Where he can hopefully help bring down Tiamat which will in turn break the pact with the red dragons the githyanki hold and thus weakening their army to a point where the githzerai can retaliate. PS: I'm playing in the Tyranny of Dragons campaign where we try and stop the cult of the dragon from bringing tiamat back.
Jorphdan with a lore video on one of my top 3 favorite races in DnD. Win!
Woo!
@@Jorphdan *WOOOO-EEEEE-OOOOO!*
Litterally just had a player start playing a Githzerai last, nice timing!
I am about to start a Gith void domain cleric (home brew I found) based off of Frankenstein's monster. Super excited.
I spoke to my first player and might have a Gith Fighter Samurai in my campaign. First things first, finish building enough of the world.
Some interesting stuff here. I've read about them in Tome of Foes, but still didn't know much of this (and now I want to involve a Gith egg in a campaign for weird factor)!
Thanks for these videos, I just now caught up on your whole channel after recently discovering it. It's got me so excited to run LMoP that I bought Storm King's Thunder to run after that! Just about to start reading it - with greater context of the setting thanks to your work!
HALF WAY TO 100K WOOHOO!!!
Go on, Gith!
I just started playing a githerzai kensei monk in a mini campaign. Was hoping to find some lore on your channel. I am not disappointed 😊.
I love the history of the Gith.
I'm currently looking at playing a Githyanki Eldritch Knight/War Wizard. Greatsword, arcane power, and plate armor combined into a single powerhouse.
Had a gith foghter.
By far my fave race
Vlaakith also devours the souls of any Githyanki who reaches level 16.
I've been thinking about a mind flayer invasion of the major cities of Faerun. My party (currently running Curse of Strahd) will leave Ravenloft with the Dark Powers stealing 10 years from them as they defeat Strahd and dispell the mists. They will arrive back on the MP overrun with Mind Flayers. They will be recruited by an astral ship of Gith and go on a fun space pirate adventure to take down the Illithids .
Currently cooking up a Githzerai Aberrant Mind Sorc
Mind flayers deserved it.
I was hoping that you would have covered the Silver Swords the Gith take so seriously.
3:41 That's a photoshop of a Gith head overtop Sorin Markov from mtg.
Gonna play a Githyanki Blood Hunter who is drived by his Ideal of Freedom... later realize he is not free at all. Plan to catch the Ghostslayer archetype in order to build the needed power to overcome the Lich Queen
One of my backup characters is a githzerai mystic. Because I need for the mystic class to actually graduate.
another piece of history is that the grinch was once one of the githyanki
I played once githzarai horizon Walker ☺️i really like gith race and history.
I love your work. Hope you explore some Dragonlance and Dark Sun someday.
Thank you! Hopefully someday! I'd like to link it with a release of dark sun for 5e, but that may not happen. We'll see :D
Githyanki were invited by George RR Martin, they were the slave soldiers of the Hrangans. Mind Flayers are the protagonists from World of Ptaavs. A story about Mind Flayers using Earth to grow food, one of them crashes on Earth and wakes up billions of years later to end up in our modern world. Humans in that book evolved from their food source that lived at the bottom of the oceans.
I have a concept of a githzerai hatchling that was kidnapped by the githyanki and trained and raised to be one. Do you think it’s possible?
I'm going to play a Githyanki Warlock of Tiamat
I rolled up a Githzerai Archer (Fighter) with the Psi Warrior subclass from TCoE, using force empowered arrows. Been looking for an opportunity to play him.
Nice!
When in the timeline did the gith break free?
Thank you for these cool races, George RR Martin!
... or the original Fiend Folio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiend_Folio . There is a Mind Flayer in S3 as well, if you want to create chaos you can add Githyanki and Githzerai... Players ought to get out of the way though.
I'm here. 17 minutes after it was posted. Fastest I've clicked a notification.
Sweet! 😁
Anybody excited for BG3?
*raises hand*
They're called gith yankee because they want to manifest destiny over the astral plane
Im playing a reformed githyanki cleric of mystra
Not an obscure race now thanks to Baldur's Gate 3
Baldurs gate 3 explained
You did not talk about the information about the Gith in the Dawn of the Overmind (2nd Edition Module), the Pirates of Gith in the Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium, and the Gith race from Dark Sun.
I believe it’s “gith-yahn-kai” not “gith-yay-n-kee” lol
My other sword is vorpal.
Doing some research for Baldur's Gate III
how about a special video of ravenloft dread lords
Wait...
So they won't clean me from lithoid..
You added that goth hatch from eggs part after the goth could be humans part didn’t you
Slim brought me here
Jesus Christ how complicated is this ?? how do you even run a campaign with such comlexity? I have the fiend folio and deities and demigods and I remember thinking this is Way Beyond a simple game of D&D. I just don't know how you would even begin to play something like this. The DM better know damn well what here she is doing and be of expert-level intelligence😆
In my personal headcannon after playing bg3 I like to think that some of both the githzerai and githyanki joined Orpheus
I wonder how much they would pay for some info on mindflayer colony locations?
They might just take the location from your thoughts and then sell you as slaves to the Drow.
Vlakith? Dr strange?
Assuming you like cyphers of PoE?
In reguards too baldurs gate 3 that just came out, are gith's generaly all so uncaring and murderous in nature? Feels like theyd kill anything with a pulse for breathing too loud
Reupload?
why something wrong?
#mancrush
Githzerai live in Minecraft... no....
Ah, yes, the gith-rebels and the gith-yankees.
The Gith obviously are an amalgamation of everything from Orc to Elf, Human to Halfing. Not just Human. Although Mind Flayers wanted slaves/hosts that didn't self-impose a movement penalty, so it was largely of Human/Elf/Orc Stock and stock like Halfings/Dwarves/Gnomes seem to be "conveniently forgotten" by the tall and lanky Mind Flayers.
They were human it was in the lore books
Ik this video is 4yrs old but I’m playing baulder’s gate 3 and I’m confused on the mind flayers and githyanki cause in the game it seems like the mind flayers are the good guys and the githyanki are the bad guys. I’m confused lol
They’re both bad, but mind flayers survive off humanoid brains so I guess they’re required to kill. Gith were slaves to them and are rebelling, so you can say they’re good, but their struggle has hardened them and made them violent and oppressive under vlaakiths rule so
What? Idk why would you ever think that. I understand thinking the Gith are the bad guys, but no idea on how you got to the conclusion that the Mind flayers are good.
Good video. Very informative. But, I'm not a fan of the Gith. Nor, do I like their lore very much. So much jumping the shark in order to explain a naturally psionic race. The power creep necessary to make them playable also infuriates me. As an NPC they are only slightly bearable. But they've always felt like pure pandering, homebrew, wet dreams. Introduced to sort of easternize cannon for the Anime-craze.
Yeah, especially rubs me the wrong way for these special Space Pirates to be a playable 5e race, that new players think is a standard player race thanks to D&D Beyond lumping everything together.
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 I get that they need to expand the roster, even accommodate some interesting multi-classing and homebrew classes. But damn it, there has never been a Gith back story that wasn't just absurd, if not stupid. It was already getting a little goofy with Divas and Goliaths. But explaining the existence of a lvl 1 planar crossing psionic monk/pirate on the material plane is always infuriating. But it's the price we pay with the surge in popularity. Guess it's a fair trade for more games and players.
You talked so fast. I lost track of which group you were talking about. Maybe, I'm stupid or something.