What happened to the Gith.

[TLDunn213]

I've mentioned the Gith in other writings. How they were a slave race that gained their freedom during the Gith Rebellion/SaurianThulien war.

But I've noticed that you never seem to see any Gith after that. No shopkeepers, No adventurers, nothing.

So, where did they go?

First, let us consider their initial circumstances. Escaped slaves on the run needing to hide from powerful forces who aren't bothering with hunting them because of other problems. 

So with that as the main concern it isn't to surprising that their initial settlements were hidden outposts that were slowly expanded.

Now an important thing to remember is that after their long enslavement to both the Thuliens and the Saurians the Gith had managed to develop some form of Magic/Psi Abilities of their own. With a strong focus on mobility and concealment. Which lead them to develop a process know as Shard Rafting.

The concept is fairly simple. The actual implementation, somewhat more complex. An Area is selected and prepared by casting several spells on it. Generally Enchantments to protect the place during the Shift and/or from a hostile environment in the new location. The other big step is placing Runes typically carved into Obilisks around the perimeter and linked to a central control structure. 

It is quite probable that the Gith were aided in the development of this system by the Morlocks as their control centers closely resemble Morlock Temple Ships.

In any event by use of Shard Rafting the Gith have built large cities out in the Void Between and quiet possibly their own Demi Plane. Although the later is at this point unconfirmed speculation.

And likely to stay that way. While the few Gith that I have encountered are friendly enough to other races in general they are quite xenophobic when it comes to the idea of any non-Gith visiting or even knowing the location of their cities. And given that their former masters had strong psi abilities including mind reading, it is rather understandable why they don't linger in the cities of other races. 

Although there does seem to be a trend tword more open relations with other races in recent years. This seems to be linked to some breakthrough in mind shielding abilities and items. 

There may also be economic/political reasons for wishing to establish stronger connections with other peoples. 

And as mentioned in the Latralo post,  the simple fact that those who lived through the Rebellion have mostly died off. With only a remnant of those who were quite young at the time remaining.

Edited February 3 by TLDunn213

[TLDunn213]

Looking through my other writings I seem to have mentioned the Gith in several places but never got around to writing about them directly.

The Gith are the ancestors of both Elves and Orks and what you get from an Elf Ork pairing. There have been just enough of those to demonstrate the truth of this claim.

Elves are the result of Gith Fae pairing with the Fae being from the Selie Courts while Orks result from Fae from the Unselie Court.

As to Wild Fae it is unclear as to the result due to the wide variety of Wild Fae on the one hand and the extremely low number of such pairings on the other. 

It is worth noting that the Fae pairings are more about the Fae's ability to mate with almost anything than any such ability on the part of the Gith themselves.

That said, Human Gith pairings are known to be posable but far to rare to be a lineage.

For those wondering what a Human Gith offspring looks like: add a nose, shrink the teeth but still pointy, more rounded ears and chin, facial hair possible in the men, add blue and green to the possible skin tones. And you should be close enough to know one when you see one.

Gith have a much higher than average chance of being ambidextrous and having Psi and/or Magic abilities with Psi-Magus being a rather common path for those with the ability.

With some combination of Ranger Rogue Monk being common for those who are less gifted. 

The Gith are known to have Psi-Tech that is comparable to that of the Morlocks or the Thuliens. And while one can clearly see the Morlock and Thulien roots in their technology there is no mistaking Gith Technology for anything else once you've seen a few examples.

Gith have low light and dark vision 

+1 to intelligence and wisdom and -2 to charisma. They are smart but ugly and blunt spoken. 

 

 

Edited December 25, 2025 by TLDunn213