names Githyanki and Githzerai?

[whydirt]

Any advice for creating names of people, places and things for all things Gith?

 

[LcKedovan]

Well,
I would say that in alot of cases the use of apostrophe's in both the main Gith races is evident. Since the Githzerai are also a race with much focus on history, metaphor, and the present many names are variants of old heroes as well, or indeed the same name, if not the same person in the overall scheme of time .

-Will

 

[LostSoul]

They're both Chaotic, aren't they? In that case, names may change based on the mood of the individual, the mood of the guy talking to him, the time of day, if there are other giths around, etc.

 

[Carnifex]

They aren't both chaotic - githyanki are any evil alignment, while githzerai are any neutral alignment. Even in 2e, where 'zeria were mostly chaotic, they didn't have randomly changing names.

I agree with Will, put in lots of apostrophes etc Make it sound very alien and odd, but quite... guttural, I guess.

 

[LostSoul]

They aren't both chaotic - githyanki are any evil alignment, while githzerai are any neutral alignment. Even in 2e, where 'zeria were mostly chaotic, they didn't have randomly changing names.

Ah, oh well, I guess I should have checked the book. I still think that changing names would be a neat thing for a completely alien species.

 

[Gospog]

Well, I just finished writing a Shadow Chasers adventure featuring Githyanki and Githezari.

I made both of the Gith leaders multi-class characters. This gave them a cool title for thier name, straight from Manual of the Planes. The Githyanki is Gish Zazoz and the Githezari is Zerth Ra'Honic. When making up the names, I tried to use a lot of the letters found in the names of both races (z, h, a, etc...).

As far as alignment goes, Githezari tend to be monks most of the time, so this usually nescessitates a lawful alignment, at least at some point in thier career.

Also, if you're going to send your PCs to the Astral Plane to find these Gith, check out the most current free map over at the WotC site. It is the floating head of a dead god in the Astral Plane.

Good luck, and have fun!

 

[Savage Wombat]

From the Githzerai campaign I tried to run:

Names

Some of these come from Planescape rulebooks, and others from the Torment PC game

Amak
Arja’rok
Dak’kon – PC from “Torment”
Djakh
Djelekh
D’keth
Fri’hi
Hailcii’n
Hifek
Karan – factol of the Xaositects
Karath
Kars’ten
Keluk
Menyar-Ag-Gith – Zaerith of the Githzerai
M’narr
Parakk – the Ratcatcher
Ra’as
Retholien
Rivek - the Pathfinder
Rrek
Rr’ka
Selqant
Toryg
Try’ig’or
Vilquar – famous betrayer
Zerchai
Zerthimon – Githzerai hero and founder of the Githzerai

Ach’ali
Devorxa
Elezpah
Harana’ii
Ji’li’kai
K’atzn’ii
Kii’na
Lar’il
Moraan
Rashka – Protector of Nath’kt’lan
Ro’jhi
T’cha
Treena
T’shaa
Torpel’lin

Glossary

Other words made up/derived from source material

ach matter
‘ad house; monastery
aev air; sky
anma blood; life
akma punishment; reprisal
bin two; second
dar world; plane
duk fear
duu strength
e’ all
gi war; battle; combat
gra grow
h’ra animal
-i; -ai plural ending
ia I; me
‘ich craft; making
ilith flesh, meat
im one; first
ka light; the sun
kar chaos
‘kt city; fortress
l, la comparative suffix
lan ending
lun time
ma, maa to be; to *know*
n’ the (emphatic modifier)
na path, travel
nga circular, returning
-on male suffix, optional
parakk (pejorative) servant; master
q’; qua dark; blindness
-r; -ar adjectival ending
rra oath
sai thought
-th person, entity
tu you
vaa pain
vil eye; sight
yan son; child
Zaerith (title) first among githzerai
zer free

Enjoy!

 

[LcKedovan]

Glossary

Other words made up/derived from source material
Enjoy!

Great summary of stuff Wombat!. With the Glossary, was that something you compiled, or did it appear somewhere?

-Will

 

[Leopold]

just find a babylon 5 name generator and use the names from G'Kar's people..i don't remember their names but they were very similar to gith's people..

 

[SteelDraco]

Characters from Savage Wombat's Githzerai game

I was in Savage Wombat's githzerai game, let's see if I can remember the names of the PCs.

En'kun (my monk/psychic warrior)
Ngarrak (psychic warrior/master of chains)
Elezpah (psion/psychic healer)
R'rek (I think this was the slayer in the party)

Hmmm. That's all I can remember out of the nine PCs. SW, you still have those character sheets. Any other good ones that didn't come from your list?

I was going to start playing a psion/rogue if something happened to En'kun; his name was An'dra'tal.