Tvuulkior knew: the objection that his former brothers in arms--his former githwarrior brethren--held toward his allegiance lay in misunderstanding. They saw only subservience to a tyrant of the Hells, a prohibited fealty to a dark Queen from outside the People. What they lacked was the proper vision, the proper appreciation for the potential that he envisioned.
Dragons were not simply allies, and not simply overlords. With Vlaakith dead, the best hope for the Sons of Gith lay in loyalty to Tiamat. There was a complex connection between dragonkind and the gith. A covenant forged in blood and magic and sealed by Gith herself--praised be the Warrior Queen! The Lich Queen, in her latter years, had even seen fit to arrange for the creation of a new bloodline--the next stage in the perfection of the githyanki body--in the form of Tvuulkior and his duthka'gith brothers. The power, rage, and indominability of true dragons flowed in his very veins, and it had no subtle effect in his outer character.
That was why these beleaguered enemies of Tvuulkior (yes, even some of the People were enemies now) could never understand his commitment to the Dragon Alliance. Tvuulkior contemplated this as he watched the desperate defense of the citadel collapse beneath his troops' siege. They had been taking orders from superiors in the githyanki legions for so many centuries that they had long forgotten the Warrior Queen's most important tenet: The proper path to ambition is directly over the carcasses of those who stand in your way. These githwarriors who defended the plots of a few petty warlords from Tu'narath were no longer his Brothers. If they were, Tvuulkior might have felt some remorse as they were burned alive in dragonfire.
The Dragon Alliance retreated to the safety of their former dragon allies in the aftermath of Sussurus. While the alliance with Tiamat and her chromatic dragons was initially ended upon the usurping of the Lich Queen, a group of githyanki--including a great number of the half-dragon duthka'gith bred by Vlaakith--managed to renew the accord for themselves. As a result, they have fared quite well during the civil war. Their Baatorian allegiance provides them with magic and territory, and they did not want for supplies in the early days of the war as other bands so often did. Still, they can count on no wide support on the Astral Plane, which they have largely abandoned, since the greater githyanki population regards them as untrustworthy and disturbing at best, and insane and treasonous at worst.
Many of the Alliance warriors see the dragons as a tremendous asset in the great bid to claim the githyanki empire. Others revere the dragons for their limitless might, unfathomable magic, and traditional attachment to the githyanki people. In fact, under the reign of the Vlaakiths, Tiamat was the second-closest figure in githyanki culture to a goddess, next to the Lich-Queen herself, among some circles. The draconic goddess is openly worhipped by some in the Dragon Alliance, and the presence of divine spellcasters (if still a small presence) is a benefit to their forces, which fight with zealous bloodlust in the war which grips the Astral Plane.
So, here's a thread I've started to build up one of the warbands which battles in the githyanki civil war. Any suggestions on the rest of the details are needed now, including but not limited to major leaders (both githyanki and draconic) and a history of the group.
And if you'd like to make a thread and do some work on another warband, you are certainly more than welcome to do so.