Who are the Githyanki from Baldur's Gate 3?

[@pointyhatstudios]

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[@dazofthemoo1531]

Super cool vid man. Awesome fun. Brilliant editing. How could I not subscribe after that. 👍🔔

[@rikkitikki2595]

Alright I gotta ask, what’s your beef with the dragons?

[@slim420-e8v]

You can't say the word slave? The censorship on this site is amazing.

[@coda821]

Weren't Gith included in the Creative Commons license? After the OGL BS.

[@kMegalonyx]

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[@Bl1tzkn1ght]

I love a description of the Gith as. "Highly aggressive space elves."

[@blazeswordpaladin9357]

Basically Craftworld Biel'Tan Eldar

[@ShermTank7272]

"Space elves", you say? *Loads bolter with malicious intent*

[@ohmygoditisspider7953]

they're space marines. I usually display them as the kind of assholes who have a demiplane filled with uncontrolled zombie plague spreaders that they'll open above a market square while flying on red dragons to doom a planet that *might* have mind flayers on it. Then they'll shame you for not destroying your own planet and not aiding the war effort. Yknow, the war that already ended and is still happening because it's outside of fuckin time. For Vlaakith

[@MegaVoltis]

Thats just Githyanki.

[@SylvanasWindrunnerResurrected]

Also beaten with ugly sticks

[@KrahzduulTheObliterator]

Hot take: The Gith actually have a cool design: they're one of the few races in D&D with a visible aesthetic and material culture without just stealing from Tolkien [stealing from Tolkien isn't completely a bad thing]. Their lore is a lot better than a lot of the races where the designers went: _"uh- I dunno? - more aminal people??"_ obviously their faces are kinda gross, but at least there's an actual design.

[@gandalftheserb]

I think they are the only truly original race in dnd

[@fmitchell238a]

@@gandalftheserb IIRC Charles Stross (who went on to write cool SF novels) borrowed the names from something else but essentially created the species from whole cloth. Too bad the artist from _Fiend Folio_ drew them as skull-faced mummy men. (Although maybe that was part of the description? I'll have to reread their entry in FF.)

[@TheMosv]

Well... Nightmare bat-pugs from hell, still kinda animal people.

[@KrahzduulTheObliterator]

@@gandalftheserb I've always liked the design of hobgoblins. I think you're right though : they're a little bit aesthetically east-asian. I do wish there was more actual culture design in D&D.

[@digitaljanus]

​​@@fmitchell238aStross took the name "githyanki" from the George R.R. Martin novel The Dying of the Light, but I don't think the D&D gith resemble the aliens in that novel.

[@MrReset94]

The Yank and the Zerai are not two distinct races, but two distinct cultures. A very cool take on the whole “subrace” thing that WotC should have used more.

[@thatchstringfellow1432]

I think they're currently doing that with the Drow with the classic Lolth worshippers and the surface gods worshippers.

[@agustinvenegas5238]

at my table i rule that subraces are mostly different ethnicities (i'm on the fence on tieflings with some getting actual wings but i may end up chucking it up to fiendish juju) and thus half the racial bonus is just a cultural thing and can be moved around regardless of tasha's (i.e all elves get +2 dex and a floating +1 culturally suggested to be some mental thing but with freedom to put it in any other stat)

[@markmueller-rougier3098]

Really enjoyed your video. One small thing to come from the original fiend folio. Which was the UK's version of the monster manual. Written and edit by people in the u k. So for them yankee is all americans. So the name is probably more inspired from the revolutionary war and not the civil war.

[@jlighter1]

@markmueller-rougier3098 As some others have pointed out, the Githyanki predate the original fiend folio by a bit. Their D&D debut was in White Dwarf in ‘77, and those were a home brewed version of something created and named by by George R. R. Martin (also in ‘77). The warlike aspects may have been fitted the other direction (instead of the “yankee” being fitted to the lore) since the person who submitted that homebrew race to WD was a British author.

[@markmueller-rougier3098]

@jlighter1 First thank you I honestly did not know white dwarf had covered d&d. Always good to learn something new. A lot of fiend folio was from a homebrew game so that also tracks. Could have been the same home brew game.

[@alexbattaglia8297]

Justice for the Gith! I personally love their unique look, it isn't just small human, tall human with pointy ears, green human with tusks, etc. I'm a sucker for unique lore which is why Dunmer from TES are my favourite race ever. I just really wish creators weren't afraid of going more out there with lore, like we get it Dwarves are small, live underground and like making stuff, boring, give us more, something new and different, cmon

[@VSPhotfries]

Yeah, I mean compared to some other entries and furry bait animal people (which isn't as much of a slight as it sounds, I just mean it's kind of a lazy way to make "different races"), the Gith look totally fine to me. Way more aesthetically unique without being just totally alien, but also isn't just boring "short humans," "tall humans with pointed ears," or "big humans with green skin and an underbite."

[@VaultArchive72]

They're green humans that accidentally walked into a wall.

[@cloudfair2]

Someone clearly doesn’t know about the Dwarves’ BOOK OF GRUDGES! 🤣

[@VanDavis]

They're not green humans with tusks. They're green elves with pug noses. You're totally right...huge difference. 🙄

[@SirJoffry]

Have you considered the idea that Dwarves don't live underground intentionally? They're short, sturdy builders that live underground. Maybe they just kept falling in holes bigger than themselves, couldn't climb out, and developed down there as a result. They learned to build so they could leave and are naturally tough to tank the fall rather than learning how to fall gracefully (because they have short limbs, so it's harder to maneuver).

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Given how prevalent the githyanki are in BG3 I kinda understand why Larian didn't make the githzerai a subrace like with other races such as elves or dwarves. Lae'zel herself might be cool with you (at least for a little bit) since you helped her off the nautiloid but literally every other githyanki you encounter would attack you on sight. Also most stuff the 'zerai would say is pretty much the same exact stuff any monk would say. So if you really want the "Authentic Githzerai Experience™" in BG3 just play a githyanki monk, only say the monk dialogue, and aggro literally every githyanki you encounter.

[@VictimOfFat3]

Alternatively you can play Planescape: Torment You can get a very interesting githzerai companion who can basically give you the githzerai perspective and their religion. Hes also a phenomenally written character.

[@tivaspotato]

Ooh i'm currently playing a githyanki monk lol and i admit it is pretty fun

[@ape8572]

not really, you share their views on mindflayers

[@elseggs6504]

If you happen to be anything other than Githyanki youre in for a bad time. At least a Githzerai can lie about being Githyanki

[@joshuakim5240]

Githzerai: "Peace comes not from violence, but understanding..." *sees Githyanki* Githzerai: "...and part of that understanding is knowing when not to use peace. Such as against THOSE SCUM!"

[@TidusplZUO]

The funniest part about Githzerai is that they started off as primarily Chaotic Neutral but then Dak'kon in Planescape: Torment got so popular they basically rewrote the entire race to be like him, despite the idea being that all the companions in that game are outliers and pariahs.

[@theomcinturff1213]

Planescape: Torment is nutty, honestly. "What if we just shake out the entire bag of Tolkien tropes and then whatever remains of DnDisms plays?" "...Oh no! Our DiTerlizzi fantasy spaceport setting is EXTREMELY POPULAR and now foundational?! DnD lore is now a head-on collision of Tolkien and a bunch of INTENTIONALLY GARBLED ORIGINAL CONTENT?? How do we canonize the popularity of Sort New???"

[@fillosof66689]

Got any source on that? Cause all I can find points to Zerthimon's ideology being very lawful and monastic from the get go, which would have shaped his followers and put them in opposition with the Githiyanki. IIRC, Dakkon's major malfunction are his deep seated doubts about his whole ideological creed. His companion quest has you work through an echanted and esoteric holy book of Zerthimon teachings, helping him restore his faith - only to end up in a major twist.

[@TidusplZUO]

@@fillosof66689 They are listed in AD&D 2e as chaotic neutral, which went to any neutral in 3e and are now lawful neutral in 5e. Zerthimon is a figure of legend and lore, with an unnamed wizard-king fearing that belief in him would uproot his power. Though granted, not much is actually written about their culture in there, just that they fight githyanki all the time cause they view Vlaakith as a tyrant (and githyanki are just plain evil in there). I found a text dump of the description of both Githyanki and Githzerai on an Ironworks Gaming forum post from 2001, hope that helps in locating it, Google is a mess recently.

[@nickkowalski5209]

Interesting, is there any read on that? All the lore I saw suggests they were extremely orderly. Back then the chaos plane was a thing and being creatures of order was their way to survive there

[@CloseingStraw97]

Not to mention the main reason why the Gith started to rebel was when the rebel leader discoveres a corpse with a sword in them. Which rocked their entire world since they thought the only way someone would die was to their mindflayer masters. Now the very thought of someone dying to something else other then mindflayers made them question their entire existence.

[@ProcyonDei]

I actually like how the Gith look, kinda look like if goblins comtinued to evolve like humans...

[@philbattiste9649]

But don't Hobgoblins exist?

[@Austin555661]

More like goblins mixed with the grinch

[@communistcomputergod6449]

@@Austin555661 they just look like grinches

[@shinkamui]

waaaait thats the entire plot of shinsekai yori

[@frankmalditx]

They look like frogs to me

[@adronius147]

Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, because I actually really like the way they look. In BG3 at least they're unconventially good-looking in the Adam Driver way, where traditional rules of what makes a face beautiful fall away to how much character it has. Lae'zel can get it anytime.

[@HEKreoss]

Facts. Especially as you get further along the romance path

[@gvirusqueen3559]

Yeah people are tripping, Lae’zel is gorgeous.

[@vaclavmusil1197]

AGREED

[@TheShadowOfHumanity]

Jesus you just compared a weird gremlin faced monster with Adam Driver. Thats so fucked up to him.

[@subject8776]

The women look way better than the men, also, they look too anorexic, especially the men.

[@ForestFairy]

Actually an old D&D lore theory used to be that because Humans,Elves, and orcs can freely breed with one another the gith were actually a "perfect mix" of all 3 with the addition of psionics. They have a human\elven build, pointy ears like elves and orcs, and their face is a combination of all 3.

[@arthurmorgan9650]

But how would that explain them basically being aliens.. so wouldn’t they not have contact with the other races?

[@lornbaker1083]

reminds me of an old joke about elves and dwarves. the idea that they can interbreed but the resulting child has the worst traits of both parents so they are tall and have graceful bodies like elves but the gruff rough faces of hewed hard skin and dark rough hair of dwarves across there head and body. Considered to be the ugliest of all half breeds. but the joke is. its just describing a human.

[@ThatRyano]

that’s actually really cool

[@pamsp]

You forgot a detail about the githyanki, Vlaakith kills any knight too powerful (I think in mechanic terms is over lvl 16) because she's afraid of competition.

[@TheSeth256]

That's masked as "ascension" and iirc it happens to lvl12+ githyanki.

[@PhantomKing188]

I think an interesting way someone could tackle the githzerai is to make them a bit more of an active foil to the githyanki. Instead of taking the stance of isolationism, perhaps instead they actively help PREPARE other civilizations against the threat of mind flayers and the githyanki? They could try to ingratiate themselves with other civilizations and even attempt to awaken similar psychic abilities in the populace. This also makes them the more benevolent alien equivalent to the githyanki’s malicious invader schtick. This could even lead to some interesting conflict, especially if some githzerai take drastic measures to prepare a populace for invasion (like using cruel methods to awaken psychic abilities or maybe even believe that making a rival hive mind is the best way to overcome the mind flayers, so they try to enforce one on a populace with a powerful githzerai at the center).

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

Coincidentally, that's exactly what I put in the history of for my current D&D campaign. Soon after this wildspace system was discovered, the githyanki launched a massive invasion. But the githzerai had foreseen this, and quietly established fortresses at unimportant but highly defensible points. The githyanki concentrated all their efforts against the hated githzerai, and succeeded in killing many, but lost the initiative and the wider campaign.

[@martophrenia]

good concept for a character

[@lushedleshen]

Githzerai don’t need to be a foil to the Githyanki. They have no reason to want to interact with other races. Their historical hook is they usually have things the party needs, and finding one of their monasteries and then getting it without getting gagglepunched by psychic Bruce Lee and his family can be an adventure in and of itself.

[@upward7515]

Ok, I can understand not liking how the Girth’s faces look, but their ARMOR? It looks SICK COME ON

[@ComedicGaming1]

It looks good in the game but in some of the older art the rubies are just ridiculously huge and gaudy

[@robertbeach71]

It's supposed to be gaudy. It's baroque style- over ornamented

[@Karak971]

I'm just annoyed there's no githyanki armor (that I found anyways) thats higher than half-plate

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

​@@robertbeach71finally someone who understands how craftmanship is a reflection of society. 🙌🏻

[@MDHDH-iy7nm]

female Gith are fine, male Gith imo look terrible though

[@fyraltari1889]

Fun fact, the word "githyanki" was invented by George R. R. Martin back when he wrote sci-fi. Charles Stross, who created the D&D version liked the name and used it without permission (although Martin is cool with it since it was just a random name for an alien species that only had a small part in his book).

[@nfc14g]

What was the name of the book and did he go into any lore, or just a glancing introduction?

[@Cecil_Harvey]

@@nfc14gDying of the Light. Githyanki are briefly described as a psionic race in internships to another psionic race.

[@sarkastikartist7044]

I love how Lae'zel is basically genetically engineered to be the prettiest Githyanki in existence.

[@thedoomslayer5863]

is she actually?

[@hendryx404]

@@thedoomslayer5863probably. she’s definitely hot af tho imo 💀

[@beanjuice6012]

@@thedoomslayer5863yes trust me bro

[@Lt.ArloMek]

It’s kinda funny. First time I played Baldur’s Gate 3 I didn’t even know it was a video game about Dungeons and Dragons, so I had no idea what Githyanki were. When I first saw Lae’Zel I just told myself “looks like an overgrown goblin with the face of a bat who sucked too many lemons”. Then as I played more and more I’m like “She’s not that ugly after all”

[@HatmanXIIX]

​@SUPERMavic this

[@coloradoblue6929]

Not gonna lie, Baldur's Gate 3 gave me a brand new appreciation for Githyanki. When given the opportunity, I do plan on playing one in an actual campaign.

[@reniorjd]

Really because the game just made me want to slaughter them all.

[@adnaP_esreveR]

Play as Lae'zel if you wanna see how the game changes if you play in her PoV. That's what I am doing rn.

[@ayeyuh6920]

Idk if you've done it yet, but I'm playing on a Githyaki character right now and it's interesting. There's a lot of unique dialogue for it, especially between you and Lae'zel

[@mavericktitan7874]

I feel strangely compelled to state that I genuinely love both the visual aesthetic of Githyanki 'and' Dragons in general. No one has to agree with me on this if they don't want to; I just never considered mine might be a minority opinion, and thus I feel compelled to let the world know a weirdo like myself actually exists. Cheers!

[@dylanwatts1045]

I don't much care for the gith, but I love dragons, so it pains me when my boy Pointy Hat hates on them. My fave dragons are silver

[@GoddessCynthia]

I really think Gith hit a sweet spot between Sci-Fi Alien and High Fantasy Race tbh. The

[@gandalftheserb]

I love everything about the gith. They are the only truly uniqe race in dnd because they only exist in dnd unlike other races wich are just taken from other popular fantasy(mostly Tolkein)

[@emperortenebrisemeraldwing8578]

No you're objectively correct. Gith are cool and Dragons carry this whole damn game

[@smoothiedeluxe7422]

@@GoddessCynthia Yeah, them an Aeldari from 40k are some of my favorite blending of those two genre's.

[@KingOfMadCows]

In old lore, the Gith came from an ancient humanoid race called the Forerunners, who might have been the ancestors of humans. Vlaakith also consumes the souls of her Githyanki followers. Any Githyanki who reaches above level 15 is consumed by Vlaakith to ensure that no one can become powerful enough to threaten her. Vlaakith has cast Wish countless times to try to achieve godhood and she pays the cost with the souls of those she consume. The Gith are in several D&D video games. The Githyanki are in Baldur's Gate 2, you can get a Gith silver sword. They play a big role in Neverwinter Nights 2. A lot of Githzerai lore was established in Planescape: Torment.

[@Geraduss]

Was first introduced to Githyanki in NWN2, awesome lore, silly tho that the Githzerai companion you get has an irremovable face veil as if to hide how "ugly" she is.

[@calus_bath_water]

That's just halo lore lmao

[@KingOfMadCows]

​​​​​@@calus_bath_waterthe Illithid were created in 1975, the Githyanki were created in 1979, and the Githzerai were created in 1981. Spelljammer, D&D in space, was introduced in 1989. Most of the sci-fi backstory for the Illithid and Gith predates Halo by 10 years. Plus Warhammer 40K has a backstory about ancient aliens that seeded the galaxy and fought wars against eldritch horrors with the Old Ones, the C'Tan, Chaos, etc. There's also a PC game series called Might and Magic that started in 1985 with a powerful race called the Ancients who seeded the galaxy and used a vast network of giant ring shaped structures called Celestial Gates that can open portals to different worlds. The Ancients fought a war against a powerful enemy and were forced to abandoned most of their worlds and they left behind powerful AI servants designed to destroy worlds invaded by their enemy. So the Halo's whole ancient alien backstory isn't that original.

[@ashtongiertz8728]

I wonder if that's why the game caps you at level 12 instead of letting you go all the way to level 20.

[@MisterCynic18]

​@@ashtongiertz8728I suspect it's capped because high level dnd is utterly broken and since they're copying the tabletop almost 1 to 1 they couldn't find a way to fix it. That or they'll sell the later levels to us as DLC.

[@sidewinder2716]

Spelljammer and Eberron seem like the most interesting DnD settings and I'd love to see more episodes for stuff from them

[@piotrd7355]

and Dark Sun.

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

Eberron is amazing, basically it's magicpunk. The lore in itself is much more intriguing than the Forgotten Realms imho.

[@sidewinder2716]

​@@piotrd7355 and Dark Sun

[@fmitchell238a]

@@piotrd7355 D&D is soft-pedaling Dark Sun because its content is "problematic". I haven't read it but it's reportedly pretty grim. Still it's hard to imagine something worse than the prevalence of "interns" in the rest of D&D. (OK, there's man-eating halflings.)

[@hellishwerewolf7798]

Eberron has the shitiest afterlife though.

[@Pirxel]

15:31 Githzerai are actually to be found at the end of act 2, when you find a brain in jar called "Awakened mind", you can use the device to read those from Balthazar and she'll talk a bit about her people ;)

[@TheKolboShow]

Weirdly enough, no one has yet mentioned that DnD Githyanki were originally "inspired" by George RR Martin's Githyanki from the book Dying of the Light. Much like the Githyanki of DnD, they were a slave race of an alien species. Admittedly though, that's where the similarities begin and end. Dungeons and Dragons came up with most of the lore and specifics, irc George only mentioned them in passing. But by all rights, if someone wants to make their own version of the Githyanki, they should be able to, even if they mostly only borrow the name. In terms of copyright, Wizards of the Coast stands on shaky ground here.

[@aquaticcatfey]

"Inspired by" is perhaps a bit of a stretch. The name, that detail, and their being psionic were lifted from Martin, true; but Martin's githyanki (which were never described) were stated to be feral and kind of dumb despite the psionics, and were never physically described.

[@Mewobiba]

Is DotL really the first time they were mentioned? I could've sworn they were mentioned in some earlier short stories of his, like Men of Graywater Station. @@aquaticcatfey I think "inspired by" is precisely the right word. They weren't taken from GRRMs works, but "a species of psionically powered entities enslaved by (and potentially biologically altered by) a more psionically powerful species and used in interstellar warfare" is certainly a specific and coherent enough concept for inspired to be the right term, much like it'd be accurate to say Tolkien was inspired by norse and celtic folklore in his design of what we recognize today as dwarves and elves.

[@thatjeff7550]

Are you kidding me? Dude, the Githyanki were mentioned in AD&D's Fiend Folio. Hell, they were the main creature on the cover of the book. That came out, what, '85?

[@AlfredThompsonIV]

@@thatjeff7550 That book 'Dying of the Light' was first published in '77 which is before Fiend Folio right?

[@Mewobiba]

@@thatjeff7550 the fiend folio is almost a decade after GRRM coined the githyanki

[@presidenttogekiss635]

Im playing BG3 as a githyanki red dragon sorceror, because it felt nice to have that dragon connection for an alien AND it felt like the perfect opportunity to play a "good guy" who is also deeply unhinged

[@Nagalipton]

So I have a weird history with the Gith(yanki). My Dad taught me how to play DnD waaaaay back in the 1e days. He had collected a lot of the books but hadn't gone head over heels with it like I would wind up doing. One of these books was "Fiend Folio" which depicted a githyanki front and center. This creepy ass ghost mummy warrior looking dude haunted my nightmares in the best of ways. No other monster poked my imagination like that guy. Even the name "githyanki" tickled the "this ain't yo momma's fantasy monster" vibe that got me all kinds of excited as a young nerd. It wouldn't be until years later that I'd actually look up anything about the gith and thus discovered the githyanki/githzerai split and -that- lead me down a whole rabbit hole of exploring the Astral Plane and learning about everything else. I basically entered the hobby backwards. Most people start with Lord of the Rings or something like that and then find DnD. I started with DnD and then went to Lord of the Rings later. Elves, Dwarves, Halflings...all those things are 'classic', and I love them. The Gith, however, are synonymous with DnD specifically. I adore them, and look forward to playing a squash nosed warrior when I get my hands on Baldur's Gate 3. Most people disagree with me, but -I- think they look cool as heck.

[@zrswitch8434]

I guess its not a hot take looking at the rest of the comments but I still got to say it; I love the visual aesthetic of the Githyanki and Lae'zel is easily the most beautiful character in all of BG3. I just love her so much.

[@poliestotico]

Aye aye, she is quite captivating ngl

[@keratin2690]

Yes

[@weeznaz8195]

To each their own, but I don’t find Lae Zel attractive. Kar Lack and Shadowheart are my style. I enjoy Lae Zel’s company though

[@arielhansen7668]

Me too, she’s sooo pretty

[@yermom014]

I think it's her eyes for me, the did an amazing job on them they're very expressive even among the main cast.

[@Gitskreig]

To any of you who game with old people, you may have heard them talk about hybrid fighter and caster classes as 'Gish' classes/builds. Thats a Gith word, specifically for their elite mage knights. The more you know! Also, the Githyanki's habit of trying to raid the crap out of isolated worlds has occasionally backfired on them. Like that time they saw this obscure, backwater desert world with little in the way of organised government and thought it would be easy pickings. They got wrecked so hard by a passing slave army, then ravaged by the environment and wildlife as they tried to get back out that they sealed every entrace they could find and basically but warning signs on them for anyone else passing nearby. And that is why nobody visits Athas.

[@a.z.pantera5577]

Imagine a plotline where Tiamat basically pulls an Order 66 on the Githyanki, and they just get smoked by their own mounts and the Dragon Queen expands her dominion into the Astral Plane. A chosen Red Dragon then uses it's power to ascend to Greatwyrm status and subjugates the remaining Githyanki. Basically causing history to repeat itself for the Gith.

[@kingofheavymetal]

They are still slaves in lore... Not sure enslaving them a 3rd time would interesting.

[@KaitouKaiju]

Not much reason for her to do that given that those dragons basically act as her information gatherers

[@KaitouKaiju]

Not much reason for her to do that given that those dragons basically act as her information gatherers and keep the gith under her thumb

[@dazofthemoo1531]

Cool. But not really on her to do list.

[@isaacgraff8288]

@@dazofthemoo1531 Could let her gain more power. Use some of the resources in the Astral to further her actual goals?

[@andriashikch1681]

A Githzerai actually appears as your companion in Planescape Torment. He was an incredibly interesting character and a source of most of my knowledge on Gith lore. By the way, while we're on it, when will we get a video on the Planescape setting?! If you thought Faywhild is weird, well Sigil is literally a ring gravity defying city on top of an endless pillar in the centre of the multiverse

[@marcusschubert5087]

Dak'kon was awesome! And he was voiced by Mitch Pileggi, Director Skinner from the X Files!

[@alchemicpink2392]

The best thing about Sigil is that is literally on top of a literally endless spire and neither of the "literally"s there are hyperbole. Though the thing with Dak'kon actually speaks to the point, since the other Gith'Zerai who do appear in that game are pissed at him but ultimately don't do anything. They're not a driving force in his or the game's larger story, only the Circle of Zerthimon and how the Nameless One factors into it. The only companion where their species is less of a factor is Anna and that's because the point is that in Sigil during that edition the difference between Tieflings and Humans is basically zilch.

[@bradyhodges4784]

You can also talk to one in act II

Also even if may not be canon(?), you get more background lore for them from Dak'kon. I was surprised it wasn't referred to on this video.

[@valentinom.4292]

Endure, in enduring grow strong

[@loganbishop9589]

I’m sorry pointy hat but you are so wrong about the gith aesthetic. They look badass in all the armor and have an alien looking face while still keeping it fantasy, plus lae’zel is hot please understand

[@ProcyonDei]

☝️🤨 😐 Yeah, I can't really disagree with this...

[@gannonpatton2858]

Lae'zel. So hot right now.

[@KovCapyWizz]

Lae'zel is hot. Can and will aggree.

[@peters8512]

mf coming round here calling Lae'zel ugly better be wearing his running shoes.

[@sleepykitty4472]

Ew skinny frog lover!

[@bionicdragon5]

I'm surprised no one's pointed out how similar the Githzerai's ridiculously named leader is to the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K. They're both immortal god-kings who use their super OP psychic powers to impose order over chaos and literally hold their homeworlds together, while their bodies are chilling out in stasis.

[@VSPhotfries]

Well, the EoM is also not actively speaking with anyone (that you should trust claims so) and would be better off if someone unplugged his life support since he'd just get reborn and not be a mute corpse, but yeah: There's a lot of similar ideas going on there. Keeping their home safe from chaos with Big Brain Energy and so forth is a pretty starkly similar core concept.

[@caseyb1346]

I should not have had to scroll down this far to find this comment. If only his followers were religious fanatic paladins instead of monks, it would be perfect. Too perfect, actually...that might invite the wrath of Game Workshop.

[@ilmari1452]

The Warhammer emperor is just taken wholesale from Dune though, with a Gothic twist that swings from goofy to edgelord depending on your edition of that lore.

[@vampi_venus]

i watched this literally yesterday and today i finished my first bg3 play through (😭) and when you read the letters and stumble across the one from kith’rak voss, the githzerai are mentioned by him!!! i’m glad i watched this video before reading the letter, such a fun easter egg!

[@ChasoGod]

You forgot to mention that when the Gith want to bolster their numbers with their children they have to basically teleport a stronghold with the eggs into the Material Plane to allow the eggs to mature and hatch and the children to grow up before they return to the Astral Sea. Now this isn't that bad except when the stronghold pops into the Material Plane it causes destruction on a massive scale around it, think what happens when Draculas castle teleports around.

[@TierRune]

Or they'll take over a location and massacre the current residents, a la Rosymorn Monastery.

[@eddokter]

Gith, being from first edition, have gone through a lot of phases of canon. A lot of my favorite stuff for them is in the semi true state now in fifth but I wanted to share. 1) The egg laying thing is sort of not innate for them. They can reproduce with other races, especially humans, with internal pregnancies. The egg system seems to be a spell system of cloning and reincarnation that the Githyanki hierarchy inherited from their 'prior employers'. It allows for greater control of what traits are inherited. 2) Vlaakith may contain the memories of all of her predecessors including Gith herself through a means of mental consumption and possession. 3) The Illithid empire the Gith defeated May have been in the future and when the Illithid escaped they went back to the past. The Gith then had to follow them back. 4) There are primitive Gith on Athas that fill the niche of Goblins/hobgoblins. They may be Gith that degenerated or they may be the origin of them in the multiverse. 5) There are technically Gith that are neither Githyanki or Githzerai. They are collectively known as the Githvyrik. My favorite of them are a semidivine group of knights whose sole duty is to hunt down Illithid throughout time and space. They were the order that Gith herself wanted to join. All in all I think they're a neat weird thing to add to any planes hopping game of D&D.

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

With respect to point 3, speculation in the 5th ed Volo's Guide to Monsters suggest the long-ago illithid empire might have escaped to the far future to escape the gith.

[@LJdaOG]

I feel like more needs to be said about the way Zerthimon discovered everything about how to throw off the Mind Flayers' bondage just by observing a dead body of a farmer killed in an accident, slowly realizing every bit of knowledge he'd been culturally maimed of, and Batman-deducing everything the *Illithid* don't understand based off the steel tools they allowed his people to use, and then suffering lavishly to keep that knowledge secret for just long enough to form a successful rebellion. It wasn't just a psionic power they all simultaneously grew one day; it was the direct result of some actually fairly sophisticated philosophical development that I promise you at least ten real people have tattooed on their bodies somewhere. Gith may have done all the fighting, and all the extant lore really wants you to remember that, no, seriously, NOBODY was better at fighting than her, but it wouldn't have amounted to a hill of beans without Zerthimon doing all of the organization, mindgames, sabotage and subterfuge, and, oh yeah, rebellion for her. ...Also, if you think the Githzerai are boring, PLEASE PLAY PLANESCAPE TORMENT. IT'S STILL GOOD, I PROMISE.

[@valentinom.4292]

I love Dak'kon and his "sidequest" with unraveling the Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon.

[@TK-en2hq]

You've convinced me to start a Githyanki playthrough. I am 100% on board for every aspect of this race.

[@KageRyuu6]

Also of note the term Gish, which is an old school DnD term for Magic/Martial hybrids originated with the Githyanki.

[@taytaystark7588]

I actually like how they look

[@vaclavmusil1197]

Yeah, I don't know why everyone says they're ugly. I like their vibe. :(

[@jimjimson6208]

@@vaclavmusil1197 They are lowkey ugly as sin in 95% of depictions, but that doesn't stop them from being at least an interesting(ish) design. I feel like wotc is incredibly unimaginative when it comes to designing fantasy races. Like, I'll take basically that isn't a Tolkien rip or an animal person tbh.

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

Honestly, I think they kind of look like Yuuzhan Vong

[@mythfire1461]

I think they're cute in Baldur's Gate

[@taylorjacquez7451]

​@@jimjimson6208nah

[@helghast_7203]

Funnily enough the first race I ever played in dnd. Had a lot of fun with it. (Also, nice video as always!)

[@helghast_7203]

Specifically, a chaotic neutral githyanki (race that I chose because I thought they looked cool) blood hunter named Ghi’ra’at. It wasn’t long before I figured I just accidentally made a more extroverted Geralt of Rivia. (I still ended up making him divert into his own character, which is nice.)

[@helghast_7203]

(I’m just gonna keep explaining character for the fun of it) His backstory was that he was a githyanki who ended up fleeing into exile in order to make his own, and developed a fear of being directly subjugated in an hierarchy (be it religious or of command), which meant he quickly butted heads with the overzealous cleric of the group.

[@helghast_7203]

Character was fun, and If I get Baldur’s gate 3, I think I’ll play him again.

[@MyRYNOrunsHot]

Okay long comment, here goes: - 1: Great vid, as always. Gith are a personal favourite of mine, I really dig the lore around them and the idea of a race that has split down the middle by ideological differences is very fun (basically transformers). Don't know if you came across the Sha'sal Khou in your research but it's a group of allied Githyanki/Githzerai that are working to unite their people. - 2: I actually had the Githyanki + Vlaakith as the enemies in a (now sadly defunct) campaign. I actually changed the lore somewhat by having the Lich Vlaakith be the original one from back when Gith was in charge, just to push the idea that she was truly ancient, powerful and insane (even did stats for her and everything). - 3: I do love that the divide behind the two cultures are literally pirates vs ninja. - 4: I actually wrote a (probably too long) backstory/character concept for a Githzerai Ranger that I wanted to play at some point, but I've yet to find the chance. Shame, there's some character stuff that I really wanted to explore, especially with being someone in an unfamiliar plane.

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

Good sir (or lady). I must protest. There is NO SUCH THING as a too long backstory for a character.

[@MyRYNOrunsHot]

It's certainly the most extensive one I've done. I can give you a link to the google doc if you wanna see for yourself.@@edoardoprevelato6577

[@SecretSexSkeleton]

.....holy shit, it really is just pirates vs ninjas. 😐

[@1033515]

My Warlock in the game I'm in where we've been exploring the Domains of Dread is Githyanki but actually an undercover Sha'sal Khoul member. And then the version of the Domains we've been in turned out to be a Mind Flayer *thing* we're trying to escape

[@jamesfoster9613]

Gith (right behind elves) were always my favorite playable species, especially Githzerai. Nice to see this vid. Fun fact, those superhero Githyanki knights is the origin of the term "gish", which in D&D meta is used for character concepts that are sword and spell based.

[@Raist474]

I've heard them described as Elf klingons. Also how they raise kids and have castes is just like the Clans from BattleTech. If you didn't romance Le'zel, you are missing out.

[@HeavyTopspin]

So the fun thing: the name "Githyanki" actually originated in a George RR Martin short story in 1977. Then the name was used by Charles Stross (now the author of The Laundry Files) for a homebrew monster in his own AD&D campaign, he then submitted it to White Dwarf magazine, after which it was in turn incorporated into the AD&D Fiend Folio and put on its cover. So in reality, they have one of the most impressive pedigrees of all D&D monsters.

[@iradavies]

Yes, indeed, you are my favorite hat

[@NeocrimsonX]

Pointy hat pointy hat merchandise when

[@iradavies]

@@NeocrimsonX roll a D 20 investigation check

[@iradavies]

@@NeocrimsonX if you roll a 20 you succeed

[@jacobwindham3817]

He's everyone's favorite hat.

[@jamesmckeown5003]

Indeed the best hat.

[@matigow]

The only bad thing about this video is all the dragon hate 😭 pibe no hay nada mas cool para mi que unas lagartijas aladas. Esas escemas de los Gith montandolos se veian super cool aaaaaa. Anyway. Amo tu contenido, sombrerito. Gracias por tu esfuerzo y aporte a la comunidad!

[@nathanielwlevy7578]

I just want an answer on why he hates dragons so much beyond just saying there bad

[@taylorjacquez7451]

​@@nathanielwlevy7578on his first session he got clapped by a dragon

[@princeblackelf4265]

It's super frustrating. Even when he did his video on Dragonborn, his "twist" was making them humans with draconic deformities and removing anything appealing about the race to people who like Dragonborn

[@Some_Really_Random_Dude.]

I was fairly certain it was Vlaakith who decided to instigate the whole "let's do onto others as was done onto us," schtick. With Zerimon claiming he was the one who stayed true to Gith's original vision. With the implication that Vlaakith sold Gith's soul to Tiamat to secure themselves the "cooperation" of red dragons in the fight against the Illithids. Though I may be wrong in that interpretation and or chronology of events.

[@archon5878]

I dont know what I love more, the D&D content or the iconic edits throughout all of your content 😆

[@faselfasel2864]

I really love the representation of the githyanki in BG3. They are probably the most fleshed out and best representation of them to date.

[@孫慧娟-u9c]

BG3 makes them feel more like Fantasy race Romans (Byzantines specifically)

[@Vaati1992]

I love the Gith, both from a lore perspective and aesthetically. Sure, most don't look GOOD, but they are distinct and their aesthetic fits their lore (centuries of mind flayer experiments and enslavement would probably leave a mark on a species...) And some gith are hot. To me. Plus my favorite DnD character was a githzerai, I miss playing her so much, it's such a shame that the campaign I played her in fizzled out. I gotta ask my old DM if we can like cooperatively WRITE something that is basically fanfic for that campaign because we're never getting that group back together probably.

[@efesimsek550]

When you get to dragons, and you will, take every one of them seperately! Pros are you can't run out of content for at least 3 years and we will have MANY variations to dragons like new lair, offspring, routine etc. options. Cons are you CAN'T run out of content. Ever. And you need to come up with new stuff to keep the video concept. Thank you for your sacrifice, Hat.

[@odinulveson9101]

Not to mention the lesser known chromatic, gem and metallic dragons.. But WotC is!so darn complacent and stingy to increase the true known dragon families roster from 5 to 10. Take the chroms. Add the Yellow weak but superfast fliers, sharp aerodynamic wings similar to a Coppers, spews concentrated salt, live by the coast. Orange jungel dwelling dragons, winged horrors with a nasty black oily salvia that after a few seconds exposure to humid air combust you in flames, jump in a lake or river to wash it off? Kaboom! Purple dragons, the TRUE dragon cousins to the deep salamander fungi neighbours. The purples both the 4e and Lloyd versions breathe energy/ plasma. Are possibly stronger than reds, are arrogant and like with the deep dragons, hoard intel/ knowledge, manipulate underdark denizens and at least the Lloyd version burrow up into surface fields to prey on livestock and games in the night

[@enzoponce1881]

One of the old edition dragons that i love (and recently discovered) are the orchilacrum dragons, orange metallic dragons with a form resembling panthers that make tattoos out of *literal jade crystals* and their hoard is made up of history records and any type of knowledge, and are open to trade their secrets in exchange of interesting lore and ancient artifacts, also, they have one of the coolest (imo) breath weapons, a toxin smoke that takes the form of a gigant snake that they use to fight any intruders, that shit is *wild*

[@kaiper9982]

​@@odinulveson9101orange dragons breathe sodium. Explodes with contact with moisture. Color wheel green chlorine Cl, orange sodium Na with yellow between breathing salt NaCl.

[@Crushanator1]

One of my favorite characters of all time was playing a Githyanki Swordmage in 4E. It's sort of like the Eldritch Knight from 5. Just very fun to lean into the sort of lawful evil militaristic character that'd normally be a big problem in a lot of games, but actually works when there's a hot lich goddess who acted sort of like a warlock patron

[@matiasriquelmejara7367]

Just discovered your channel a couple days ago, and I have to say it became on of my favourite contents to watch on YT! I can feel the effort you put on making these videos! Wishing to see one dedicated to the Kenkus, or any anthrobird race, or anything, watching your content is a delightful experience!

[@sev1120]

If they HAD to have the two gith societies have Dragon Riders, the Githzerai could very well have either metallic or, as befitting their psionic monk aesthetic, gem dragons that they form a psionic bond with. And rather than being simply mounts and war beasts, the dragons the Githzerai ally with are their equal, and they often take council from their bonded dragons for how to handle a situation

[@bencegergohocz5988]

Lae'ze looks good in my opinion.

[@vaclavmusil1197]

Yes

[@fmitchell238a]

They made her prettier than other Gith because she's a main character. In most art Gith have skull noses; hers looks like a regular nose just smaller and higher up.

[@B00Radl33]

Gotta admit, that girl boss gots style.

[@evenmoor]

In the original Neverwinter Nights expansion Hordes of the Underdark, there was a group of Githzerai pilgrims led by Sensei Dharvana in Cania, the eighth layer of Hell (ruled over by the archdevil Mephistopheles). And one of the recruitable NPCs in Neverwinter Nights 2 was Githzerai - Zhjaeve. (Curiously, she was a cleric... with no patron deity.)

[@marcusschubert5087]

Yeah, and I remember her art, the veil made her pretty badass. Also, probably she had no deity because she embodied the stoic and ascetic ideals of Zerthimon, not his figure as a God, and I kinda like it, wish there was more about the Githzerai.

[@leesthegenius]

That short Elfen Lied rant at the end could not be more accurate to my own personal experience. I feel seen.

[@Femo-ok]

There is a Githzerai on Baldur's gate 3. You can talk to them and also get a reward for helping it before the first big boss fight.

[@TheTdroid]

I like the Gith; they're a distinctly D&D associated fantasy race for me. Kinda like how Krogan, Salarians and Asari for Mass Effect. Their BG3 appearance is in all likelihood based on some of the old drawings we have from earlier editions. It's fairly faithful. The change from old I dislike the most for modern Githyanki as of 5e is that Githyanki Knights in the older editions used to be Paladins, but with their abilities turned to evil. Smite Good, Protection from Good, Control Undead etc. instead of Smite Evil, Protection from Evil and Turn Undead and so on. They were the only Githyanki that typically used Divine magic. So I would've appreciated Githyanki Knights having some Paladin spells and maybe an Aura in 5e. Alas, I have to homebrew that for my own campaigns.

[@bananadane]

I think theyre kinda cool looking, id fertilize eggs with one given the chance

[@NeocrimsonX]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@eggsnham.]

...what? '^'

[@Karak971]

You don't need to, githyanki reproduce asexually. Lae'zel makes a specific comment to the effect of "I would hate having to risk children every time I wanted to enjoy sex"

[@jimjimson6208]

@@Karak971 The fact that they reproduce asexually through egg laying but still have a sex drive and human-esque anatomy makes no sense whatsoever lmao. Like you literally cannot convince me that it wasn't some wotc writer sitting there thinking 'damn I want to smash this Shrek-Voldemort hybrid I just thought up'.

[@caioaugusto3138]

​@@eggsnham.Y' know... eggs & sausage

[@Sarth1s]

I've just recently found your channel and after going through your past uploads... holy hell I love this channel. Your intros are some of the best! Thanks for the awesome content, and keep up the good work!

[@direkitsune]

So, he looked up Chaos Dragon (which I believe is mostly just 3e?) and just looked at a Red dragon without looking any closer. I get that the dragons are kind of overplayed, but chaos dragon do have their own design. Most of the dragos have their own designs to tell them apart pretty easily tbh. That's why I do like all the different kinds, my players know the normal chromatic/metallic but not a iron dragon or a yellow dragon XD

[@curlyfryman6969]

I love having the GITH in my campaign as a player character. Idk why, but the different world perspective just tickles my creativity brain.

[@ferrousoxide7806]

Githzerai is one of my fav races actually, was very sad to not see them in BG3. I wish they had done githzerai with interactions like the Lolth Drow vs seldarine Drow

[@VSPhotfries]

Yeah, same: I was introduced to them in Planescape Torment. Your companion in that game is one of the best written and far from boring just because he's not a hotheaded wannabe klingon.

[@DerelictSong]

Hmm spoilers They do appear but not as playable

[@Lycan1313]

A couple months late but to add on a previous comment SPOILERS: I believe they show up when you enter the astral plain and fight them with the emperor near Orpheus

[@pointyhatstudios]

We come in peace 🖖👽 (not)

[@wasphoney3990]

Hey love in chapter 3 you have a cameo as a hat item. It even has the Eye on top of the strap. Its called The Pointy Hat even.

[@amxifebi]

What happens if the magic hat goes through the Lichification (*TM) process?

[@helghast_7203]

Played as a githyanki in my first dnd campaign. Had fun with it. (I then played as 60 year-old grave cleric grandma)

[@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal]

The githzeri er w/e are a core part of BG3 lol

[@LittleRoaringbird]

Finally I can become Raven!

[@QueerGritty]

Your love of drag race references and D&D just earned my subscription- super funny and interesting!

[@zerg539]

So I've never really looked into the Githyanki before but damn they would make beast mode Artificers being able to get whatever proficiency they need with just a long rest, which turns into tool expertise making it very easy to get up to +16 bonuses with Flash of Genius, at lvl 6!.

[@Sparking_Ram]

I wasn't a fan of how they look at first but I came around pretty quickly. Might even try using them in my actual D&D campaign at some point.

[@_TehTJ_]

I always thought the Gith were like a second or third layer item for a five-layered D&D iceberg. Like, they're something a new or low-knowledge D&D player wouldn't know much about, besides their monster manual section, but long-time fans always have some sort of opinion of them. I'm glad that they're becoming a more mainstream part of the game.

[@piotrd7355]

In Planescape: Torment, one of the companions is Dak'kon, a githzerai following the path of Zerthimon.

[@kenashworth7672]

I didn't get the "bad dragon" joke, so I looked it up. Now, it is too late for me, and all I can do to make the world a better place is beg you to just let it go. Please: your mind will thank you...

[@Feanor6450]

The other dnd youtuber I watch is blainesimple, and since his videos are about 6 minutes long and I have trouble paying attention even to those, the fact that I can watch your 20+ minute videos and be entertained throughout them is impressive.

[@H4hT53]

The Githyanki-Githzerai thing was a huge plot point in Neverwinter Nights 2.

[@Local_commentor]

The DND movie is set in never winter no mention of it I love gith there so funny looking

[@marsneedstowels]

Yea the Sword of Gith is a major plot point and a Githzerai is one of your companions. Seems like a lot of people in this comment section didn't play NWN2.

[@patrickcalip948]

Having a character being able to train in psyonics sounds super cool. Then I could act out that one scene in matrix where neo learns how to bend a spoon. Have to hit someone with the "There is no spoon" line. Ooooh that was such a dope one liner!😆

[@iamatree4372]

Everyone being able to have psionics reminds me of dark sun, which i really adore.

[@yungo1rst]

the chaos dragons have different scale patterns depending on the individual.the forgotten realms wiki should have the other picture used before that red one. i like to interpret their scales as rgb colours that go faster in combat and when using either breath weapon.

[@pedroicaro4365]

For everyone like me who wants a twist on dragons, we will unite in all videos from this one on, because our greedy lizards deserve it too!!! DAY 1 ASKING FOR DRAGONS ON THE CHANNEL

[@elan263]

The humor is SO on point. I love it !

[@GoddessCynthia]

It's so weird to me that everyone keeps calling them ugly. I feel like they're kinda tame as Alien peoples go lol. I love lae'zel so much she's so pretty.

[@kingofheavymetal]

Yeah Lae'zel is almost too pretty if they wanted to make them look weird.

[@GoddessCynthia]

@@kingofheavymetal Even in the soruce material's art, like,,, they look okay. They're not "mention every 5 seconds" ugly to me lol

[@bleeem]

people are used to cute elves on pinterest, or just human with pointy ears and different heights, their personality is very cool to anybody with a brain. You see a githyanki and you know he is not a human with pointy ears, like in the witcher, Elfs and Dwarves act so different from each other it really gives off the vibe they are different races.

[@melonne7278]

Not with that nose naw

[@devinkerr5474]

I'm a little sad that I clicked into this video to learn more of their lore because they look interesting, and the first 3 minutes is basically trashing their facial features and everything

[@luck7345]

Strange, while looking at Chaos dragon, the one that you showed was a chaos dragon from MTG which was in forgotten realms, but there is also Chaos dragon from 3e which is completely different from the red dragons... really confusing me now which ones they tamed

[@ashtongiertz8728]

They didn't tame them tho. Failed miserably.

[@vicentepougyguazzelli4710]

Did a quick search on chaos dragons and they seem kinda cool, all they do is try to cause change, theyre in all the chaotic spectrum, have some cool spells like diapel law and entropic shield and two breath weapons, a confusion breath and a variable breath that can deal different types of damage

[@VilcxjoVakero]

Man, the push these guys got back in 3.5..., they were a major playable race in the Expanded Psionics Handbook, the DM's guide had an illustration of them in the guide to the planes, Paizo's Dungeon and Dragon magazines released special issues about a githyanki invasion of the material plane, a goblin-like monsters called 'gith' was introduced to their version of Dark Sun, the 'Devourer' (one of the nicher undead) was retconned to be a gith experiment I think... all from not existing in 3.0. I think I recall reading a WotC guy saying that they were deliberately trying to workshop something as beloved as the Drow. Perhaps related to OGL?

[@ryancloutier9638]

thank you for the no spoilers! you're wonderful, keep it up!

[@Stef_Z]

Your writing and delivery are always excellent, but you absolutely killed it with this one! And that Elfen Lied callout cut me to the bone... I did not consent to having you inside my head like this 😂

[@MulberryDays]

yeah no i feel weirdly attacked by such a *specific* reference? 😅

[@suprizeoptomist4680]

"Tiamat is the goddess of Bad Dragons." The end. Best story ever.

[@XarkoCZ]

I don't find them ugly at all. Most of their options are pretty attractive faces with weird nose, that's it.

[@samuelbrancaglion1592]

I really hope one day he does a video on dragons. But there is no twist or tip. Just 40 minutes of pure unadulterated rage on the scaley bois.

[@natchym]

ok I just found your channel and was looking for D&D content, but the video barely started and I'm already hooked because I've had 4 RPDR references so far

[@UndeadRoshi]

Idk what the twist of the gith will be but I've been writing the Gith as like very radical shoot first ask question maybe space cops

[@Lightscribe225]

From what I've seen, they're the Imperium from 40k: assholes that spread across everywhere, they're xenophobic as hell, but they're better than the alternative (mindflayers)

[@12oshinko]

The Gith are awesome, and reunification faction is a great angle.

[@timtimothy5405]

Before watching the video, I'm just going to say what I've done with the Githyanki. The antagonist of my campaign is the Astro empire, a Great Britain like all-encompassing empire from space. The campaign takes place on a single planet, that is just one of millions that the Astral empires seeks to absorb. As they are so spread out, the empire has tons of different spelljammer races and creature under its employ. The gith that the party has met are the best of that. Essentially, they are gurkhas. Culturally speaking, the greater gith race is based on the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding areas. I tried to think of what a warrior race in real life truly was and they are essentially the closest thing I could think of. I don't know why I'm saying this in the comments section, I've just been kind of looking for anyone to talk about this to besides my players

[@shaderig349]

I love worldbuilding and Lore. I'll listen

[@Thalassicus01]

It's fun to re-imagine lore content based on historical and cultural analysis. So much of the Forgotton Realms lore seems... honestly... rather cringy. For example, I re-imagined drow as "Deep Elves," cave creatures with bulging eyes and translucent skin. They were the aristocratic remnant of an ancient elven empire who fled to the underdark to escape an 'intern' revolution. They have similar ambitions and hatred of surface-dwellers as the Drow. However, their visuals and society are based on biological and socio-political reasons, instead of just an arbitrarily evil race of spider-worshiping dominatrix black women. The drow were invented almost 50 years ago, and did not age well.

[@peachibread1983]

Man I love dragons We need more things with them

[@aSSGoblin1488]

what a well written and witty script. well done

[@L4sz10]

If you want a well-written githzerai on your party, I cannot suggest PlaneScape: Torment enough.

[@dawidkordalski1440]

yep Dakkon is a goat

[@L4sz10]

@@dawidkordalski1440 "Endure. In enduring grow strong."

[@wakrusgumbo]

@@L4sz10 "There cannot be two skies."

[@zoushaomenohu]

And if you want a BORINGLY written githzerai in your party, you CAN play Neverwinter Nights 2. Still, play Neverwinter Nights 2, Zhjaeve may be weak in the narrative department, since she really doesn't get much of a character arc and is mostly there to infodump to you, but many of your other companions are AWESOME like Khelgar Ironfist and Neeshka!

[@Mrpizzahere]

+1 for Planescape Torment. Especially since that will Segway you into a modrons video...or anything Planescape, it's just an awesome setting.

[@thespaceman8231]

Githyanki aren't uglyyyyy 😭😭😭😭 (I am on copium right now)

[@jamesdoyle6914]

The dragon lover's dilemma: Make a classic dragon=boring they all look the same Make a novel dragon=that's a wyvern/bird/cockatrice/etc/etc

[@glompert7390]

I just like to consider all that stuff as dragons. There's true dragons which are the classic ones, and then there's the other members of the genus draconica, like wyverns

[@user-vx8pr8oj1v]

The fact your referencing dragrace (my favorite show) while reviewing my favorite game is iconic.

[@Don_DeMarco]

Must admit, this video makes me wanna use a Gith as my next character playthrough. I seen how scary they can be as monks.

[@adambartholomew6575]

I've always found the gith to be fascinating, however, I've never really had much use for them. And yet I've somehow managed to roll Gith twice on a random race table with 30+ races on it while creating npcs for my eberron games so i think the universe is trying to tell me something

[@burningbronze7555]

It's the whole not being on planets they're like demons in a way coming from somewhere else to mess with you.

[@cloudfair2]

The ironic part about you calling them ugly is that Gith look WAY BETTER LOOKING in Baldur’s Gate 3 than they do in ANY official material 🤣

[@Poppytartx3]

In BG3 there is a secret githzerai near the end of act 2 - you can speak with something that reveals it was a githzerai before being what it is now (And you can get a permanent buff called Githerzai Mind Barrier).

[@drpepperman2765]

Just got to act 3, SPOILERS Was it the Emperor? It'd low-key make sense for him to retain his personality after Ceramorphis if he already had the psychic powers of the gith

[@Enndorii]

wait who? I’ve done multiple playthroughs and never found this character

[@allanmacedo317]

@@Enndorii under the Moonrise Tower, on the Illithid dungeon, there's a machine that allows you to communicate with those brains they store on green jars. One of the brains near it belongs to a Githzerai.

[@willang3433]

Also, aren't the Gith monks who attack you also Githzerai? I'm not aware if the Githyanki have monks since they're so militaristic

[@EYOUTz1993]

Yupp I got that, it was very cool to learn all that shit I didn't know from discovery inside the game.

[@robbieriot]

So when are we getting our dragon videos for each dragon variant? You better fucking do it! You're obligated!

[@Garmonbozia-nc7mm]

Planescape torment has an amazing githzerai companion that is a fightermage who uses a sword made from metal from limbo and it changes form and strength as the companion levels. I wouldn’t say that’s boring.