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''This page refers to the leader of the gith race.  For information about the race, see also: [[Gith (race)]].''
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'''Gith ''' was one of the leaders of the thrall rebellion that toppled the [[illithid]] empire thousands of years in the past and the first leader of the [[githyanki]].{{csb|Monstrous Manual|153-154}}

{{quote|Live, but only if you live free.|Gith|A Guide to the Astral Plane|1996|{{csb|A Guide to the Astral Plane|44}}}}

==History==
Gith was once a slave of the vast illithid empire, although she later led her followers to the [[Astral Plane]] after defeating their illithid masters.{{csb|A Guide to the Astral Plane|45-46}}

Gith's past as a slave was unclear. Some stories told that she was a high-ranking slave to a powerful mind flayer, acting as its bodyguard and as its champion, while others maintained that she was a young and unremarkable footsoldier.{{Cite polyhedron|159|Incursion: Knights of the Lich-Queen|6-7}}

During the long centuries of the vast illithid empires, rebellions from [[Gith (race)|gith]] slaves against the mind flayers were frequent, but never posed a significant threat. It was Gith who first united the different rebel groups against their masters, truly sundering the illithid empire and dealing it a crippling blow from which the illithid race never recovered.{{Cite polyhedron|159|Incursion: Knights of the Lich-Queen|6-7}}{{csb|A Guide to the Astral Plane|45-46}}

After the gith defeated the illithid empire, Gith, the leader of the rebellion, insisted that all remaining illithids in the multiverse be hunted down and destroyed; then, the People would be free to conquer all planes of existence. Many of the People's hearts shared this goal. However, another leader, [[Zerthimon]], argued that the People were already free and should instead start mending the damage done to their race. He too expressed a goal that was in the hearts of many of the People.{{csb|A Guide to the Astral Plane|45-46}} Still, Gith insisted that hers was the only path and that they would be "under the same sky" in the matter.<ref>''Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition''</ref>

Zerthimon then told Gith that there "cannot be two skies." This became known as the [[Pronouncement of Two Skies]], a declaration of war that splintered the People into the races of [[githyanki]] (those who followed the warrior-queen Gith) and [[githzerai]] (those who followed the prophet Zerthimon). Battle was waged on the Blasted Plains, and the githyanki retreated to the [[Astral Plane|Astral Sea]] while the githzerai withdrew to the chaos of [[Limbo]]. The two races have remained enemies ever since.{{csb|A Guide to the Astral Plane|45-46}}

Gith was said to have gone to the [[Nine Hells]] to serve [[Tiamat]], the queen of evil [[dragon]]s, as part of a pact between the githyanki and red [[dragon]]s which was brokered by her advisor, [[Vlaakith]].{{Cite dungeon|100|The Lich-Queen's Beloved|97}}{{Cite dungeon|100|The Lich-Queen's Beloved|97}}{{csb|Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes|86}}

After this pact was made, the red dragon consort of Tiamat, [[Ephelomon]], went to Gith's followers to tell them of her sacrifice and convey Gith's final decree, making Vlaakith the first queen of all the githyanki and ordering them to continue their conquests{{Cite dungeon|100|The Lich-Queen's Beloved|97}} while they awaited Gith's prophesied return.{{Cite dragon|309|Incursion: A World Under Siege|73}} 

==Creative Origins==
Gith was created by [[Charles Stross]] for his ''AD&D'' campaign.<ref>Interview with Charles Stross by Sevendead blog. She was first mentioned in the 1981 ''[[Fiend Folio]]''.{{csb|Fiend Folio (1e)|43}}

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
* [[Monte Cook|Cook, Monte]]. ''A Guide to the Astral Plane''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996. Item code TSR2625.
* [[Mike Mearls|Mearls, Mike]] and [[Jeremy Crawford]]. ''[[Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2018. Item code C4594.
* ''Monstrous Manual''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1993. Item code TSR2140.
* [[Don Turnbull|Turnbull, Don]]. ''Fiend Folio''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1981. Item code TSR2012.
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