Githyanki

Githyanki were originally known as the marauders of the astral seas. They were an arrogant, cruel race that invaded other planes of existance in pursuit of wealth, artifacts and slaves. While they were not widely known, those who did know them rightly feared them. During the Upheaval the Gityanki's natural planar teleportation magic which allowed them to return home, was disrupted. The planes shifted slightly, not enough to throw off most existing portals or practiced spells, but the natural and instinctive magic of the Githyanki and Githzerai wasn't able to be altered to account for the changes, leaving them stranded on the material plane.

Today, Githyanki can be seen in most places, though they are most often nomadic. A very large percentage of their population belongs to a singular mercenary band, but the rest tend towards adventuring and job to job work. Only a handful properly pledge loyalty to a cause. They are egotistical, confident in their ability to handle anything that comes their way. In many ways they are pragmatic to a fault. Githyanki are incredibly slow to trust, but quite often they are sufficiently confident in their ability to handle the other races they deal with to have something that looks like and acts like trust. Proper friendship is slow, and usually something that only comes over the course of many fights side by side.

Modern Githyanki are raised with the knowledge that out in the astral sea there are giant stone castles where their people live. Most Githyanki are somewhat glad to have left this life behind, but they know that the lich queen who rules their people very well might end up sending expiditions against the rogue githyanki on the material plane who, even after the magic stabalized, never came back.

Githyanki are tall, gaunt humanoids with yellow skin, often over six feet tall and weighing roughly 170 pounds. They have russet hair, usually pulled out of the way, with flat noses. Their eyes have a strange gleam often viewed as sinister. Githyanki have a love for ornate clothing, armor, jewlery and, most of all, weapons.

Racial Traits
 * Ability Scores: Githyanki are strong, quick and hardy, but they tend to be impatient and cocky +2 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Wisdom
 * Type: Githyanki are humanoids with the Gith subtype
 * Size: Githyanki are medium sized creatures and gain no benefits or penalties
 * Base Speed: Githyanki have a base speed of 30
 * Languages: Githyanki start out knowing common and gith
 * Defensive Training: Githyanki are trained from an early age to fight. They recieve a +2 dodge bonus to AC
 * Hardy: Githyanki are not just trained to fight, but trained to fight against wizards and psions alike. They gain a +2 to saving throws vs poison, spells and spell-like abilities
 * Swordtrained: Every Githyanki child is raised with at least basic warrior training. Due to this they gain proficiency with the long sword, scimitar, falchion and bastard sword.
 * Darkvision 60