Githyanki

The githyanki are a race of psionic humanoids formerly dominated by the mind flayers.They escaped their bondage and now reside in fortresses in the Astral Plane.

Civilization and Culture

History

The githyanki were encountered 9,000 years ago during the daelkyr invasion from Xoriat.

It is possible the mind flayers created the githzerai and githyanki on their own, or corrupted them from human or hobgoblin stock. Another theory holds that the mind flayers were created when the daelkyr destroyed the native world of the gith. This would make mind flayers the gith version of creatures such as the dolgaunts and the dolgrim.

The githyanki and githzerai escaped from the mind flayers after the Gatekeeper druids pushed the realm of Xoriat far from from the Material Plane and disrupted the invasion. The githyanki fled to the Astral Plane, while the githzerai moved to Kythri, the Churning Chaos.

Some githyanki are said to still reside on the Material Plane. There are even rumors of githyanki civilizations in the jungles of Xen'drik.