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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2233470" data-attributes="member: 11697">They've been laying eggs for over a decade or so.And what you said hasn't changed in the grand scheme of things. But the rather skimpy 1e details on both races were expanded in Planescape in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium I, 'Guide to the Astral', and 'Planes of Chaos' to a lesser extent.Guide to the Astral has tons of details on Githyanki society, biology, and history.While both Gith races descended from a common stock of humans that were enslaved by the Illithids and experimented upon over millennia of such, the githzerai and githyanki have diverged from one another since they split after overthrowing the Illithids. The githzerai have been warped by exposure to the raw chaos of limbo, and the githyanki have been warped by their exposure to the mental energies of the Astral and perhaps some level of interbreeding with red dragons over the eons.We saw in those sources the details of Vlaakith's ascension over the githyanki after Gith vanished in Baator after forging a racial pact between her people and red dragons with Tiamat. It is likely that Gith was betrayed by the original Vlaakith (the current lich queen is a distant descendant of the first Vlaakith). We also saw details on the githzerai of limbo and their autocratic but very subtle religious leader or Wizard-King named Zaerith Menyar Ag Gith.But as for the original topic: It's never been said one way or the other for the 'zerai, but I'd say that they don't lay eggs. That seems to be a result of the 'yanki breeding with red dragons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 2233470, member: 11697"] They've been laying eggs for over a decade or so. And what you said hasn't changed in the grand scheme of things. But the rather skimpy 1e details on both races were expanded in Planescape in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium I, 'Guide to the Astral', and 'Planes of Chaos' to a lesser extent. Guide to the Astral has tons of details on Githyanki society, biology, and history. While both Gith races descended from a common stock of humans that were enslaved by the Illithids and experimented upon over millennia of such, the githzerai and githyanki have diverged from one another since they split after overthrowing the Illithids. The githzerai have been warped by exposure to the raw chaos of limbo, and the githyanki have been warped by their exposure to the mental energies of the Astral and perhaps some level of interbreeding with red dragons over the eons. We saw in those sources the details of Vlaakith's ascension over the githyanki after Gith vanished in Baator after forging a racial pact between her people and red dragons with Tiamat. It is likely that Gith was betrayed by the original Vlaakith (the current lich queen is a distant descendant of the first Vlaakith). We also saw details on the githzerai of limbo and their autocratic but very subtle religious leader or Wizard-King named Zaerith Menyar Ag Gith. But as for the original topic: It's never been said one way or the other for the 'zerai, but I'd say that they don't lay eggs. That seems to be a result of the 'yanki breeding with red dragons. [/QUOTE]

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