A Playable Species by Kay Marlow Allen
Sources disagree on who originally planted the patch of tubers and taproots in the primal mud of the Feydark. Some say it was an apprentice sorcerer hoping to impress her teacher by cultivating the notoriously unpredictable sludge; others claim it was a purple dragon trying to grow magical items from ordinary vegetables treated with magical fertilizer. In any case, that first gardener was likely surprised when their vegetables grew larger and larger, their roots separating into legs that carried them out of the earth and into the world.