How does the night elven wood sucking even work ?

[Arrashi]

So this is something that was bothering me since warcraft 3. Unlike any other races, night elves do not cut trees and instead attach a wisps to them that go spiny spin and do all the sucking. And bam - the wood is here. But how does it work ? Are they hollowing trees and teleporting the wood ? Are they just getting DNA samples and replicate them and synthetic wood ? Are they getting the wood and healing the tree to create infinite wood (as it was in w3) ?

Also, in what form does the wood gets into night elven storages ? Surely its not a planks. Do they teleport it as shapeless mass and then shape it back ?

[Phunkle]

I don't think Night elves harvest wood at all. That was a game mechanic needed for the race to be somewhwat balanced in an RTS. Lorewise I'd imagine nightelves are some kind of "woodbenders". They form trees in a shape they like and places houses in there.

But that's just my speculation.

[omeomorfismo]

magic! easy

[Arrashi]

I don't think Nightelves harvest wood at all. That was a game mechanic needed for the race to be somewhwat balanced in an RTS. Lorewise I'd imagine nightelves are some kind of "woodbenders". They form trees in a shape they like and places houses in there.

But that's just my speculation.

Oh so they have something like eldar bonesingers ? But wood...so woodsingers ?

[UnluckyAmateur]

You should probably rename this thread.

[Raetary]

they just lead the wood how it should grow.

[Vakna]

The spirits make the wood grow into whatever shape is needed, they don't chop it all down and saw it up, they grow it into the shapes they want.... Probably.

[Combatbutler]

Oh so they have something like eldar bonesingers ? But wood...so woodsingers ?

The way it is described in the novels this seems to be the case.

[Enthralled]

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[Zuben]

I don't think Night elves harvest wood at all. That was a game mechanic needed for the race to be somewhwat balanced in an RTS. Lorewise I'd imagine nightelves are some kind of "woodbenders". They form trees in a shape they like and places houses in there.

But that's just my speculation.

Sounds the most valid we can get without Word of God.

[nonameelf]

I think that was just a game mechanics. Wisps directly grow trees and other things, they don't need to gather wood first.

[Arrashi]

But then how they make bows and other craftsmaship ? Also wooden parts of stone buildings. I mean its kinda hard to imagine them "growing" a chair.

[Qualia]

Magic.

Wisps have the capability to mold wood into nearly any form. A wisp can change the shape of up to a 5-foot cube of wood, shifting the wood’s dimensions at will.

RPG book so it's not really canon, but it's as close to canon as we can get I guess.

[Combatbutler]

But then how they make bows and other craftsmaship ? Also wooden parts of stone buildings. I mean its kinda hard to imagine them "growing" a chair.

We don't know the exact process, but they do use magic.

The Alliance has recently moved in to the west, using their elven magics to grow a town and grove in a short matter of time. We must keep their defenses weak so that they do not also grow a spine.

http://wow.gamepedia.com/Questust_from_the_Drakes

[ravenmoon]

magic! easy

case closed and finished.

[ro9ue]

They prob just suck wood like humans suck wood.


OH, that's not what you mean.