Gith

The gith are a psionic species of humanoids native to the Astral Plane. They are said to have formerly been humans who became stranded in the Astral Plane and built their own society, evolving over centuries to become a separate species entirely. 
There are two different subspecies of gith: gith'ya and gith'zee. The gith'ya are a Spartan-like society who raise warriors and believe that all Mindflayers should be killed. The gith'zee are a scholarly race who focus on cultivating their psionic abilities and believe in using the mindflayers for their own gain. 
The gith were imprisoned by the mindflayers after the species immigrated to the Astral Plane. The gith were kept as a food source in the city of A'gan'hel for several hundred years. At the peak of the empire, the gith rebelled, and imprisoned their former captors, slaughtering them to near-extinction. 
After the destruction of A'gan'hel, the gith relocated to Abaddon. It was at this point that they split into two factions, disagreeing with one another about how to handle the remaining mindflayers. As the gith'ya and gith'zee began to war with each other, it is said that the god Gabuuti built a labyrinth at the entrance to their warfront, in order to protect the gith from outsiders (and vice versa).
Category:Races
Category:Outsiders