A design question for Seeds of Chaos: what should the early night elves use as workers instead of wisps?

Ideas included small treant workers (reportedly Blizzard's original night elf worker), recoloured high elf workers (more fitting, since the mod is set before the night elves became druidic), and gathering where lumber comes in over time without cutting trees, like wisps.

Possible worker abilities ranged from a sacrifice that returns wood, a weak Entangling Roots or a Root form that disguises the worker as a tree with true sight.