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It is revealed that the "Dream Visitor" is, in fact, a visage taken by a renegade illithid called the Emperor, who resides within the prism and oversees the imprisonment of a powerful githyanki, Orpheus. Orpheus is the source of psionic resistance the party possesses against the Absolute, and the Emperor has been leveraging this in his favour.
The most desirable of races for hosts are humans, drow, elves, githzerai, githyanki, grimlocks, gnolls, goblinoids, and orcs. Upon being implanted (through any cranial orifice), the larva then grows and consumes the host's brain, absorbing the host's physical form entirely and becoming sapient itself, a physically mature (but mentally young ...
A god-isle is the immense petrified remains of a dead god that float on the Astral Plane, where githyanki and others often mine them for minerals and build communities on their stony surfaces. Tu'narath, the capital city of the githyanki, is built on the petrified corpse of a dead god known only as "The One in the Void".
The githyanki/illithid relationship was inspired by Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs. [159] [146] The githyanki were voted among the top ten best monsters from that White Dwarf's "Fiend Factory" column. [130] Shannon Applecline considered the githyanki one of the game's especially notable monsters.
After they defeat the Yuan-ti and claim the Demon Stone, they seek out Drizzt Do'Urden, an unusually heroic drow, in the hopes that he can help them find Cireka. He directs them to an abandoned portal in the Underdark, home of the drow. When they find the portal, they also find Cireka and her Githyanki horde ready to make use of it.
For all editions, the game follows 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, licensed by Wizards of the Coast.The game features much of the same updated gameplay presented in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, [6] [7] with the same updated (including cross platform) multiplayer, which allows players from different platforms to play with each other.
Prior to Drizzt, in the vein of orcs, trolls, and primary-colored dragons, the Drow were essentially categorized as more monsters for players to battle and defeat. Their skin was obsidian black, earning them the alternate name of dark elves, and marking them as the evil counterpart to the good and heroic lighter-skinned elves of the surface." [66]
Given the place of the githyanki in D&D over the years (and some of the in-text mentions of creative origin), the notability tag is almost laughable, but rather than inciting deletionists to edit war over tags, let's find the reference and nuke the tag from orbit.Shemeska 22:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC) Hehe.