Githyanki Godflesh Gobbets

Read this post: https://furtivegoblingaming.blogspot.com/2023/05/3e-oddite-githyanki-prestige-classes.html and was inspired.

A few takeaways:

I don't think it makes sense for githyanki society to be so blatantly evil and totalitarian - they can't even heal or mature naturally on the astral plane, going to be pretty difficult to maintain centralized control when your people need to go on rumspringa to patch up every little booboo, or reproduce - also, pirates, not historically known for unquestioning obedience to central authority.

The githyanki, at least in the more recent editions, live on the corpses of dead gods - they're probably going to be more skeptical of divinity (as it exists in d&d with physical gods you can hang out with) than most.

If I ever run githyanki they're gonna be like crews of One Piece pirates, fiercely independent and idiosyncratic, gobbets of godflesh taking the place of devil fruit in granting bizarre powers to those who eat them.

This post is meant to facilitate that last point. Here's some gobbets of godflesh that githyanki (or anyone else who gets their mitts on them) can eat for strange powers:

1. Ur-Pung-Grub Gobbet - Allows its eater to become an animated, artistic depiction of themself on a stone surface they're touching. They can slide across any stone in contact with that surface, and pop out wherever they can fit. Only an attack which damages the stone they're on will hurt them. Ur-Pung-Grub was the god of cave painting, slain by an elven upstart who wished to seize a greater share of the domain of art.

2. Toetur Gobbet - Allows its eater to indefinitely extend and retract their tongue, exert their full strength through it, and taste the precise material composition of whatever they lick. Toetur, the god of tastebuds, was once the food taster of the king of the gods, and found that there was a poison that could kill even the divine.

3. Gagooj Gobbet - Allows its eater to ignite their own blood, so long as it hasn't dried. Gagooj intended to create a different order of life than the one which ended up triumphing, and lost her head for it.

4. Scrabnin Gobbet - Allows its eater to carry inanimate objects in their own shadow. This is undetectable. Objects encumber as normal. This gobbet's a piece of a goblin god who couldn't hack it in their hardknock pantheon.

5. Xalrom Gobbet - Allows it eater to see through the eyes of anything they kill until those eyes begin to rot. Carved off the corpse of a god of death taken out of the competition for that coveted domain by the power couple of Wee Jas and Muckle Jezza.

6. Bonnetal Gobbet - Allows its eater to cause the seeds of poisonous plants to instantly mature to their full size by touching them. Bonnetal was killed for trying to collapse all seasons into a single moment.

7. Vekmerik Gobbet - Allows its eater to cause any spell they witness being cast to be miscast, however they suffer the consequences of this miscast equally with the caster. Vekmerik was a god of wild magic who died attempting to become something even greater than a god.

8. Zop Gobbet - Allows its eater to either ask a sleeping creature three questions (which must be answered truthfully & to the best of their knowledge) or give a three word command they must follow until waking (any serious jolt or risk of death wakes the creature up). Zop was offed for being too annoying about all the features he wanted added to sleep.

9. Rekhnaghahn Gobbet - Allows its eater to rapidly drink huge amounts of water then breath it out as fog. Rekhnaghahn was a sea monster that ascended to godhood, and was then put down by a hero who pursued it into the heavens.

10. Loliluleo Gobbet - In the hands of its eater feathers become as hard as metal and metal becomes as soft as feathers. Loliluleo was a bird-god ganged up on and slain by mammal-gods.

You can only eat one godflesh gobbet. Oh yeah, and anyone who eats a godflesh gobbet earns the enmity of all the gods (they really don't appreciate being anyone's lunch). After you've consumed one you can no longer benefit from divine magic, and after death your soul will be totally obliterated unless you're absorbed into Vlaakith or whoever else.