Githzerai Enlightened
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes p. 208
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- humanoid (gith)
- Alignment
- lawful neutral
- AC
- 18
- Hit Points
- 112 (15d8+45)
- Speed
- walk 30 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Str +6, Dex +8, Int +7, Wis +8
- Skills
- Arcana +7, Insight +8, Perception +8
- Passive Perception
- 18
- Languages
- Gith
- Challenge
- 10
- Lineage
- Githzerai
- Environment
- desert, mountain, urban
Traits
Psychic Defense
While the githzerai is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.
Innate Spellcasting (Psionics)
The githzerai's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
- At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible)
- 3/day each: blur, expeditious retreat, feather fall, jump, see invisibility, shield
- 1/day each: haste, plane shift, teleport
Actions
Multiattack
The githzerai makes three unarmed strikes.
Unarmed Strike
Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 13 (3d8) psychic damage.
Temporal Strike (Recharge 6)
Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 52 (8d12) psychic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or move 1 round forward in time. A target moved forward in time vanishes for the duration. When the effect ends, the target reappears in the space it left or in an unoccupied space nearest to that space if it's occupied.
recharge
D6
Spells
mage hand, blur, expeditious retreat, feather fall, jump, see invisibility, shield, haste, plane shift, teleport
Other data
description
The githzerai are a check on the githyanki and the illithids. The githyanki are a check on the githzerai and the illithids. Thus, three unequal forces enforce the Balance.
Githzerai Enlightened: Githzerai never stop training. They spend long hours in meditation to transcend the limits of their forms and to apprehend the nature of reality. Zerths who complete the next tier of their training become one of the githzerai known as the enlightened.
Gith: The descendants of an ancient people—so old their original name has been lost—have turned against each other, becoming vicious enemies divided over mortality, purpose, and the machinations of their leaders. The bellicose githyanki terrorize the Astral Plane, raiding into other worlds to plunder the multiverse of its magic and riches. The githzerai live apart from the rest of the cosmos, content within the confines of their fortresses floating through the chaos of Limbo. Although the two groups of gith despise each other, their hatred for the mind flayers from whom they escaped endures, and both githyanki and githzerai are dedicated to hunting their ancestral foes.
What would become of this multiverse if githyanki didn't guard the Astral Plane from the illithid menace? What would reality become if beings of thought ruled the plane of thought?