Featured:2012 article 19
A vegepygmy is a sentient plant that is created when a creature is infected and slain by russet mold. Among the youngest of the Darklands races, these strange beings are a product of the sporecrafting gardens of the drow House Udrinor. Working toward the goal of making a sustainable source of food in the Darklands, they harvested a number of strange molds and exposed them to strong doses of Caphorite rays. Although the results were barely sentient, these early examples did prove self sustaining and worthy of further experimentation. Over time the sporecrafters worked to increase their intelligence and gave them a rudimentary ability to care for their own communities. It was a great surprise to their creators that once these initial vegepygmies died their bodies decayed into a strange patch of rust-colored mold, now known as russet mold. read more