After posting a thread or wasting too much time on an argument, I try to set my digital chi back in balance by posting a thread somewhere about Githyanki.
Hence, City Built on the Body of a Dead God.
Githyanki Diaspora
Judd Karlman from Daydreaming about Dragons' Blog
Githyanki Diaspora 
So, I have a setting where gods are, literally, ways of understanding the world. Understand a god, and you are a prophet. Understand a god *too much* and you are a monster.
What does it mean, for that, to live in the mind of a dead god?
Are the Githyanki parasites that move from worldview to worldview, assimilating them all into some sort of molding syncretic heap?
yrs–
–Ben
So, I have a setting where gods are, literally, ways of understanding the world. Understand a god, and you are a prophet. Understand a god *too much* and you are a monster.
What does it mean, for that, to live in the mind of a dead god?
Are the Githyanki parasites that move from worldview to worldview, assimilating them all into some sort of molding syncretic heap?
yrs–
–Ben
So, I have a setting where gods are, literally, ways of understanding the world. Understand a god, and you are a prophet. Understand a god *too much* and you are a monster.
What does it mean, for that, to live in the mind of a dead god?
Are the Githyanki parasites that move from worldview to worldview, assimilating them all into some sort of molding syncretic heap?
yrs–
–Ben
Excellent. The Githyanki are truly one of the awesomer original monsters to come out of D&D. I’ve always been drawn way more to the non-Tolkien monsters. Illithid, githyanki, kobolds.
I’d love to see some kind of D&D monster/concept “etymology” or “ancestry” that traces the different things back to their roots. For example, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth is the source of the spell memorization system and a few spells (Excellent Prismatic Spray). Trolls with acidic blood comes from Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions (so says Wikipedia).
That said, I wonder where the illithid and gith came from? Or were they borne whole-cloth from some fevered gamer?
Excellent. The Githyanki are truly one of the awesomer original monsters to come out of D&D. I’ve always been drawn way more to the non-Tolkien monsters. Illithid, githyanki, kobolds.
I’d love to see some kind of D&D monster/concept “etymology” or “ancestry” that traces the different things back to their roots. For example, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth is the source of the spell memorization system and a few spells (Excellent Prismatic Spray). Trolls with acidic blood comes from Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions (so says Wikipedia).
That said, I wonder where the illithid and gith came from? Or were they borne whole-cloth from some fevered gamer?
Excellent. The Githyanki are truly one of the awesomer original monsters to come out of D&D. I’ve always been drawn way more to the non-Tolkien monsters. Illithid, githyanki, kobolds.
I’d love to see some kind of D&D monster/concept “etymology” or “ancestry” that traces the different things back to their roots. For example, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth is the source of the spell memorization system and a few spells (Excellent Prismatic Spray). Trolls with acidic blood comes from Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions (so says Wikipedia).
That said, I wonder where the illithid and gith came from? Or were they borne whole-cloth from some fevered gamer?