A third Gith race - Githvyrik?

[Nightfall]

Okay so I can't spell.

At least I got most of it right Gez.

Voila!

Anyway I'm sticking with my theory for now.

 

[Kvantum]

The Athasian gith are a stunted, mutant version of githyanki, left in their primative state by a psychic "bomb" that was detonated early in Athas's history.

At least that's what I remember from Black Spine. Anybody who wants to know for sure can go read it in closer detail.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

A viola is a small violin.

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

A viola is a small violin.

Actually, a viola is a large violin...

 

[Derulbaskul]

At least he didn't type "walla" like I have seen on few times on these boards.

The author answered this on the Candlekeep forums. I can't find the thread but I recall it was simply something he made up and also that he expected it to be a small offshoot race, not a civilisation a la the 'yankis or the 'zerais.

 

[Alzrius]

Okay, so so far there are:

Githyanki - original offshoot of the peoples enslaved by the illithids; currently live in the Astral Plane. See the Expanded Psionics Handbook, Dungeon #100, and Dragon #309 for more details.

Githzerai - original offshoot of the peoples enslaved by the illithids; currently live in Limbo; see the Expanded Psionics Handbook for more details.

Pirates of Gith - offshoot of the githyanki; currently live in wildspace. See 2E's Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium Appendix (MC7) for more details.

Athasian Gith - offshoot of the githyanki; currently live on Athas; see the 2E Dark Sun adventure Black Spine for more details.

Githvyrik - original offshoot of the peoples enslaved by the illithids; currently more a group of inidividuals than a true race. See Dawn of Night by Paul S. Kemp for more details.

Githzada - original offshoot of the peoples enslaved by the illithids; currently live on the Astral Plane. Created by Fiend Games. See Gaming Frontiers issue #0 for more details. (As an aside, as near as I can tell, this is all there is about the githzada; Fiend Games seems to have folded not too long after this was written, and their Project Planeshifter line seems to have died out before becoming more than a handful of titles and synopses, along with that one preview article.)

 

[trancejeremy]

Don't forget Githzilla

 

[Nellisir]

Years ago I created the githtorai (for reasons I don't recall). Their branch of the gith were the scouts and hunters of the illithid, and after their rebellion, remained in the Underdark to hunt mind-flayers. They were strongly inspired by the kif race from CJ CHerryh's Chanur series.

Cheers
Nell.

 

[Zjelani]

Also, a few years back over at Planewalker, Phil Smith came up with the githgagra - Underdark gith:
http://www.planewalker.com/loz/misc.shtml

 

[tsadkiel]

The Dakeen for Eden's Liber Bestarius were originally the Githduros, yet another third offshoot of the original race. LB was still in production when it became clear the Gith races weren't going to be added to the SRD, so Eden very sensibly made some changes.

tsadkiel (who did the original Githduros writeup)