Gith
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The Gith:
The gith are a people with a tragic history. To all evidence, literally no one alive knows the original name of this people or anything about their culture. Tens of thousands of years ago, they were discovered by the illithid of the city Krguthcolreh on an isolated plane, and their entire species was taken as slaves. For millennia they were made to be naught but living tools and food sources for the illithid, and all memory of their homeland was obliterated by generation upon generation of mindless servitude.
The illithid made a significant error in their selection of slave stock, however, for the species apparently had a significant inborn psionic potential, which long exposure to continuous mind control and other forms of psychic manipulation bred to fruition. Eventually there came to be born members of this nameless slave race who could hide some of their thoughts from their masters, and even plot rebellion. One of the forms which rebellion took was the taking of names, and one of the first names taken was Gith.
The individual named Gith proved a great leader, filled with hatred for the illithid, and under her guidance the slaves plotted a revolt. The specifics of this are not well-known to scholars outside the race, but in short, it was successful, and the city of Krguthcolreh was destroyed to the last inhabitant. The freed people took the name of Gith as their own. There followed some kind of political split, however, again with the details hard to discern, and some gith continued to follow Gith while others went their own way. Many gith now roam the planes, searching for some inkling of their lost home and forgotten racial identity, while others pursue vengeance against the illithid race or act on their own agendas. There is one value they apparently all hold in common, however; an absolute contempt for servitude. Any gith who enters into bondage to another earns the ultimate scorn of his fellows, no matter which path they follow.
Physically, gith are extremely tall, thin humanoids with yellowish skin which seems thin and tightly stretched, especially in their faces. They are fairly strong and tough but not exceptionally so; their intellect and especially their willpower are more notable. They possess nightvision, though whether this is an innate trait or an adaptation to the underground domain of the illithid is unknown. Their lifespans are considerable, more than six hundred years being typical, and like many such long-lived peoples their rate of assimilating new experiences is somewhat limited. One of the many consequences of the obliteration of their culture is that the only language they have to call their own is illithid Varalar, which no doubt many of the gith find rankles. As a consequence of being wanderers of the planes, most have also learned to speak the Limbo trade language Nilasnai and become at least somewhat familiar with the Anglic spoken widely on Gaia.
/----------------------------------------- The Gith Race ----------------------------------------\ | Attributes Strength 30 to 90 | | Intelligence 40 to 120 | | Constitution 20 to 90 | | Dexterity 40 to 100 | | Willpower 60 to 140 | | Charisma 40 to 60 | | Perception 30 to 110 | | Size 62 to 83 | | Typical Sexes Male | | Female | | Languages Native Varalar | | Specialty Access Cold Tolerance available: degree II | | Heat Tolerance available: degree II | | Centering available: degree I, accumulative only | | Resistances Temporal very strong resistance | | Traits Assimilativity -6 | | Night Vision 1 | | Sentience Anthropic | | Speech Pattern Monastic | | Cultures and Homelands Freeholder Freehold | | Githg'thog R'lyeh | | Githyanki T'letzoth | | Githzerai Vodalis | | Limboka Limbo | | Losthavener Losthaven | | Lowlander Halfmoon Bay | | Sanctuary | | Tethysta the River Tethys | | Physical Characteristics Anatomy Anthropoid | | Natural Weaponry Ordinary | | Mental Characteristics Psi Psychic | \------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
