(Scribe's Note: This text is copied from a far older text I received from the Alhoon in the Restful Mind. The original was stolen. The original text contained a number of passages that were either missing, or simply illegible, written in a form of prophecy, or perhaps spell. I’ll detail that section later, as most of it is speculation. Sofawiel)

Millennia ago, when the Illithid controlled vast cities throughout the astral plane, there was an entire race which they had enthralled to serve as their slaves. Eventually, however, a leader rose from amongst this slave race, one able to resist the flayers, and she, the one called Gith, gathered the downtrodden into an army.

Under Gith's leadership, her race rose up, smashing the illithid's hold over them, and ravaging their cities, causing many of the flayers to set up bastions here on the Prime Material plane. However, after their success, the newly freed slaves were divided as to their future

Some of Gith's followers wished to find a meaning for their people beyond hatred for the illithid, and they separated themselves from Gith, to become a race called the Githzerai. Those that stayed true to Gith, and those that continue to hunt flayers in roving bands across the planes, are known as Githyanki

With part of her people now gone, her armies weakened, Gith wished to forge new alliances in her eternal struggle against the Mind Flayers. It is said, as time passed, she approached the arch-devil, Dispater, seeking aid. The crafty devil presented her with a bargain. He could help her personally, in exchange for the souls of all her people, or he could arrange the aid of the dragon goddei (The last word is scribbled out and rewritten) Goddess, Tiamat, in exchange for Gith staying Dispater's prisoner in his iron Fortress. It is told this is the option she chose, and Tiamat has been known to lend the aid of the darker dragons to the cause.

(Something seems odd about this book. Sofawiel was a drow librarian, but the handwriting most certainly doesn’t look drowish, but rather tiny letters written by … a gnome or svirfneblin?)