Githyanki
Once members of a people who escaped servitude to mind flayers, githyanki split from their cousins, githzerai, and fled to the Astral Plane. In that timeless, silvery realm, githyanki honed their psionic powers and built a great city called Tu’narath. They have since spread throughout the multiverse, starting in outposts outside the Astral Plane, called creches, where time passes and their children can reach adulthood.
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A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver astral clouds.
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Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely.
Homelands
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Astral Plane
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Deities
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Vlaakith
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Enmity
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Mind Flayers
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Githzerai
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Astral Elves
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Affinity
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Proud Xenophobes
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Dragons
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Notable Features
Fierce planar warriors, psionically gifted, pale or yellowish skin, expert swordsmen, highly disciplined, prideful and aggressive, skilled in astral navigation, resistant to psychic damage, long-lived, omnivorous with preference for hearty and spiced foods.​
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Advanced Race Expectations
Githyanki have no true religion and have no care for it. Most are highly disciplined soldiers that conquer and pillage any ship or planes that they come in contact with in Vlaakith, their Queen's, name. Generally seeing themselves above all others, they care nothing of other races culture, language, or persons. The closest religious figures the Githyanki have are revered knights that devote themselves completely to Vlaakith. A smaller caste within Githyanki society, called the Mlar, was made up of crafters and specialized tasks, laborers and foragers, and those that constructed weapons, astral ships, buildings, and tools.
Height
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​Min: 170 cm (5'5")
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​Max: 210 cm (6'11")
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Languages
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Common
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One language of your choice
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Life Span
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​Adulthood: 18 years
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​Longevity: 120 years​
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Movement
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3 tiles per turn​
Astral Knowledge
You can mystically access a reservoir of experiences of entities connected to the Astral Plane. You are proficient in the Arcana skill.
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Githyanki Psionics​
You know the Mage Hand cantrip, and the hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this trait. You also may use a bonus action to magically teleport up to 3 tiles to an unoccupied space you can see. Usable once per long rest.
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Psychic Resilience
You have resistance to psychic damage.