In the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

, Gith is the fictional leader of the thrall rebellion that toppled the illithid

Illithid

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, illithids are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers. In a typical Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, they live in the moist caverns and cities of the enormous Underdark...

 empire thousands of years in the past, and founder of the githyanki

Githyanki

The githyanki are a fictional humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. They are cousins to the githzerai. In the Dark Sun setting, they are simply called gith...

 and githzerai

Githzerai

The githzerai are a fictional race of creatures in the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons.Githzerai are extraplanar humanoid creatures that reside on the Plane of Limbo.-Publication history:...

 races.

History

Gith was a native of the planet Pharagos

Pharagos: The Battleground

Pharagos: The Battleground was a proposed campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, written by James Wyatt. Though the setting was never expanded and published into a fully detailed setting, it did make an appearance as a three-part feature in DRAGON, DUNGEON, and Polyhedron.-...

, which was part of the vast illithid empire, although she later led her followers to the Astral Plane after defeating their illithid masters.

Gith is said to have gone to the plane of Baator

Baator

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Baator, also known as the Nine Hells of Baator or the Nine Hells, is a lawful evil-aligned plane of existence...

 to serve Tiamat

Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons)

Tiamat is the name of a powerful draconic goddess in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The name is taken from Tiamat, a goddess in ancient Mesopotamian mythology who is substantially different ....

, the queen of evil dragons

Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , dragons are an iconic type of monstrous creature used as adversaries or, less commonly, allies of player characters...

, as part of a pact between the Githyanki and red dragons which was brokered by her advisor, Vlaakith

Vlaakith

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Vlaakith is the name of the first ruler of the githyanki race after the disappearance of Gith, the rebel leader that united them against the illithids...

.

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

Vlaakith

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Vlaakith is the name of the first ruler of the githyanki race after the disappearance of Gith, the rebel leader that united them against the illithids...

 the first queen of all the githyanki and ordering them to continue their conquests.

Creative origins

Gith was created by Charles Stross

Charles Stross

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...

 for his Advanced Dungeons & Dragons campaign. She was first mentioned in the 1981 Fiend Folio.