Once members of a people who escaped servitude to mind flayers, githyanki split from their cousins, githzerai, and fled to the Astral Plane. In that timeless, silvery realm, githyanki honed their psionic powers and built a great city called Tu’narath. They have since spread throughout the multiverse, starting in outposts outside the Astral Plane, called creches, where time passes and their children can reach adulthood. A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver astral clouds. Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely. —D&D Beyond Githyanki and their Githzerai cousins are the yin and yang of D&D. An alien race sundered by civil war, they split into not just two different camps, but two different philosophies that caused them to hate and wage war upon one another. Fortunately, nothing like that could happen here in 2024 in the USA. Though not an action pose, I'm pleased with how this gangly alien turned out. Seven in-progress pictures below. |
Why you should practice drawing Githyankis: Gaunt, elongated alien humanoids are a classic fantasy trope. Whether from outer-space or other dimensions, their just humanoid enough to be believable anatomy makes them all the more scary. Friend or foe, these otherworldly outsiders fit right at home in any fantasy, sci-fi, or super-hero storylines.
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