![]() Like their cousins and enemies, the githyanki, githzerai often formed hunting bands for the purpose of seeking out and destroying the hated illithids. The zerths also held special significance as religious leaders in githzerai society. Some multi-talented githzerai became zerths, blending magic, combat, and psionics into their fighting. Many githzerai trained as monks, while others chose to lose their natural magic resistance and become wizards. Githzerai society was monastic and introspective. Enlightened githzerai could use their psionic abilities to produce additional effects similar to blur, expeditious retreat, haste, and teleport. Particularly advanced zerths reached the rank of "enlightened", acquiring the ability to explore the nature of reality itself. Through intense training and meditation, zerths had access to many psionic powers, such as the ability to innately reproduce effects similar to the feather fall, phantasmal killer, plane shift, and see invisibility spells. Githzerai monks who most closely followed the teachings of Zerthimon were known as zerths. ![]() Many githzerai, following their monastic lifestyle, tended to train in martial combat and fought as monks. Īn intense and sometimes fanatical people, the githzerai kept the memory of their origins always alive and carried out all their affairs with a burning sense of righteousness. As a splinter group of an oppressed race, they were extremely distrustful of outsiders and were devoted to their self-preservation. Since their hard-won victory against the mind flayers, followed by their dissent and defeat at the hands of the githyanki, the githzerai became ascetics and philosophers, pursuing self-knowledge in the face of adversity. Īn austere and frugal people, githzerai usually favored practical and unadorned clothing, with at most some simple jewelry. They were all capable of minor telekinesis in a similar fashion to the mage hand spell and could also hone their abilities to become capable of innately casting shield and detect thoughts. ![]() Īs a result of their long period of enslavement and manipulation by the mind flayers, all githzerai possessed psionic abilities. Female githzerai usually wore their hair in buns or braids. Their facial hair was also carefully groomed. ![]() Typical hair colors included black, russet, and sometimes gray, which male githzerai either shaved or wore in braids. Their skulls were long and angular, with deep-set eyes, flattened noses, and long pointed ears. They had pale yellow skin, sometimes with greenish or brownish tones. Like all gith, githzerai were tall and emaciated-looking humanoids, but, thanks to their rigid training, had more muscular bodies. 7.3.5 Organized Play & Licensed Adventures. ![]()
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