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The githyanki were dwellers of the Astral Plane. Their militaristic society was built on war and pillaging, and their entire decadent culture was proud and xenophobic, seeing all other civilizations merely as targets for conquest.

As former slaves of the mind flayers, the gith were experimented on and manipulated, developing powerful psionic abilities as a result. United under their leader Gith, they eventually rebelled against their masters, finally winning their freedom and bringing the mind flayers to the brink of extinction. Differences over how to conduct their society led to a schism and a violent civil war, which ended with the pacifist githzerai fleeing to Limbo and the warlike githyanki moving to the Astral.

Always on the lookout for signs of mind flayer activity and constantly hunting their hated githzerai kin, the githyanki conducted frequent raids on the Material Plane, riding their red dragon allies and aboard their plane-shifting spelljammers. In Realmspace, they maintained a base in Stardock, an asteroid of the Tears of Selûne in orbit around Toril.

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