For several years in your youth you lived in a monastery, learning the ways of Zerthimon. You are steeped in those traditions and have learned some of the skills of a monk.

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"Everyone you know is a slave - but you won't let the shackles of easy conformity and control wrap their seductive chains around you." -Planewalker's Handbook

"Better the heartfelt devotion of a free soul than the grudging obedience of a slave." -Planes of Chaos

"The githzerai's history of imprisonment was the foundation of the monastic lifestyle in which all githzerai learn from childhood how to eradicate potential oppressors and enemies (anyone not a githzerai)." -Third Edition Monster Manual

"Under the teachings of Zerthimon, who called on his people to abandon the warlike ambitions of Gith, the githzerai focused their mental energy on creating physical and psychic barriers to protect them from attack, psychic or otherwise. . . .  Although Gith won her people's freedom, Zerthimon saw her as unfit to lead. He believed that her warmongering would soon make her a tyrant no better than the mind flayers." -5th ed. Monster Manual

"Githzerai are self-sufficient and form few attachments to home or family. As a result, many are noted wanderers who need little reason to set off on journeys across the planes. To a githzerai, the physical journey is a metaphor for the inner one, and many adventurers are content to pass year after year in remote Material Plane lands."  -Expanded Psionics Handbook

 

Skill Proficiencies: You can choose two skills from the Monk skill list (Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Religion, Stealth).

Tool Proficiencies: You can choose one tool or musical instrument.

Languages: You can speak either Deep Speech or Primordial.