Editing Githyanki (section)

=Backstory=
The githyanki are the twisted, estranged kin of the [[githzerai]], divided from their cousins by a philosophical breach that occurred centuries ago. 

Both races were humans once; para-humans, anyway. Perhaps ''erectus'' from the past; perhaps estranged humans from some future. Somewhen and somewhere the [[Mind flayer]] empire found them, twisted them, and enslaved them for untold generations. [[Bruce Cordell]] had some lore about this in the 2e ''Illithiad'' and associated modules.

Eventually two figures rose up and led their people in a massive slave uprising; [[Zerthimon]] the mystic, and [[Gith]] the warrior-woman. At the brink of total illithid annihilation, Gith began planning to "truly" free her people by... well, basically enslaving every other race and making the Gith-kin as bad as the illithids had been. Zerthimon objected to this, an act called the Pronouncement of Two Skies, and thus the illithid's former slaves were divided into "Those Who Spurn Gith" (Githzerai) and "The Children of Gith" (Githyanki), with the former bogging off to [[Limbo]] (or the [[Elemental Chaos]]) and the latter disappearing into the [[Astral Plane]].

Gith herself disappeared after a trip to [[Baator]] to secure an alliance with the dragon-goddess [[Tiamat]], but one of her greatest warriors, Vlaakith, took her place as Warrior-Queen of the Githyanki and kept her people on the path that Gith had set. More than one person has wondered if Vlaakith didn't betray Gith in some way, earning the pact with red [[dragon]]s by, say, feeding Gith to Tiamat, but the githyanki won't hear of it.