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Mercenaries for the Lich-Queen
The githyanki are not prone to alliances with any other race or organization. They are so strongly convinced of
their own superiority, and so innately distrustful of nongithyanki, that the best relationship they can hope
for with a potential ally is that of a mercenary. In fact, the githyanki often hire mercenary clerics devoted to
evil gods in order to make up for their relative shortage of healing magic. Half-fiends are particularly common
in this role. If your DM allows it, you can play a character of virtually any race serving as mercenaries in the
Lich-Queen's armies, as long as you're willing to playthe cleric.
Gith Classes
Blackweave Warlock
The blackweave is the githyanki term for negative energy, which they view as an essential component of all matter.
The blackweave warlock is an arcane spellcaster who specializes in harnessing this energy, unleashing its powerfully
destructive force on the enemies of the githyanki. At the cost of progressing in her knowledge of other schools
ofmagic, the blackweave warlock becomes amaster of necromancy, to the point where her entire body becomes
suffused with negative energy and her touch is as deadly as that of the undead.
Ghustil
Ghustils are healers who are adept at manipulating the energies of the Astral plane into healing power. Since
natural healing is impossible on their native plane, those few githyanki who can master healing spells bards,
rangers, and the ghustil are vitally important to their warrior culture. A ghustil's healing abilities pale in com-
parison to the clerics of other races, but they are beyond the reach of any bard or ranger, so their talents aregreatly appreciated.
Gish Mindslayer
The githyanki have no greater enemy than themind flayers who enslaved themfor centuries when the race was
born. Their entire culture, their very identity as a race, is built upon their hatred of the illithids, and among their
greatest heroes are those who have distinguished themselves as illithid slayers. The gishmindslayer is dedicated
to thatmission, bringing bothmartial training andarcanemastery to the task of slaughteringmind flayers.
Holocaust Warrior
Some attribute it to their ancient pact with red dragons, while others just chalk it up to pyromania, but certain
githyanki gish are particularly adept with the magic of fire. The holocaust warrior is the perfect example: a gish
who hurls fireballs between swings of his flaming greatsword. In the martial philosophy of the githyanki,
fire is a symbol of the consuming power of the githyanki race,which will soon destroy all other races and burn triumphantly
through eternity.
Sword Stalker
Sword stalkers are trained specialists with only one purpose:recovering silver swords lost by other githyanki and
hunting down the fools who take them. Able to hunt such thieves even across planar boundaries, sword stalkers arethe superlative trackers and scouts of the githyanki race.
Sample ff the Gith Feats:
NightmareSteed [General]
You have a nightmare companion that you can rideinto battle.
Prerequisite: Fiendish servant class ability.
Benefit: You can replace your fiendish servant with anightmare, as described in the Monster Manual. The
nightmare gains the same improvement to its Hit Dice,Strength, and other abilities that your fiendish servant
would have gained, based on your level. If your nightmaredies, you can replace it in the same way that you would
replace another fiendish servant
Silver CordStrike [General]
You specialize in severing the silver cords of astral travelers.�
Prerequisites: ExoticWeapon Proficiency (silver sword),
Power Attack.
Benefit:When you strike at an astral traveler's silvercord, you do not provoke an attack of opportunity. You
also gain a +4 bonus to any attack rollmade to attack a creature's silver cord.
Normal: A character who doesn't have this feat incurs an attack of opportunity when he strikes at a creature's
silver cord.
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