A third Gith race - Githvyrik?

[Krug]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/paulkempap2004

Wizards: In Dawn of Night, you introduce a character who is a githvyrik, a third offshoot of the Gith, related to the githyanki and githzerai. Did you have to do a lot of research to create this character?

Paul: There is little material available for such research. Like the githzerai and githyanki, the githvyrik split from their progenitor gith kin when they freed themselves from the mindflayers. Unlike the githzerai and githyanki, however, the githvyrik number only a handful or so, and all of them are so unique that calling them a race is really more a convenience to reflect their shared origin rather than a suggestion that they share physical characteristics or a similar culture. They do not.

Anybody read the book? What's the scoop on the githvyrik?

 

[JDJarvis]

There is already a third offshoot (or should i say, was) the Gith Pirates from spelljammer.

 

[BobROE]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/paulkempap2004



Anybody read the book? What's the scoop on the githvyrik?

Other than the villian being one, not much.

 

[MDSnowman]

There is already a third offshoot (or should i say, was) the Gith Pirates from spelljammer.

And Dark Sun's beastial Gith.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

This is probably a case of parallel thinking, however there was a thread on Monte's AU boards last year about the gith and the verrik. (Verrik are a mentalist-type race from MCAU.) Someone proposed the "githverrik" as a third Gith race.

 

[Nightfall]

Or maybe some silly wizard opened a gateway into the Diamond Throne, grabbed an unsuspecting Verrick, crossbred them with some Giths and viola!

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Or maybe some silly wizard opened a gateway into the Diamond Throne, grabbed an unsuspecting Verrick, crossbred them with some Giths and viola!

Yeah. That's it. He made them into fiddles.

 

[Nightfall]

Close enough Varianor.

 

[Gez]

Viola is a past form of violer, to rape (as in, say, violator)... This is, indeed, one way to get hybrids between giths and verriks... :\

(It's "voilà" BTW, or voila if you can't type the accent.)

Aren't the gyth from Dark Sun somewhat insectoid?

 

[ConnorSB]

Reptilian, I though.