Herr Gottlieb:
Gentlemen, there is no longer any doubt that the so-called Tree Spirits are real creatures. Accounts of their activities are too numerous to deny. It falls to our esteemed company today to determine what nature of beast they are. I believe them to be kin to the woodland elves, the child-stealers and guardians of Wyscan. I have heard that the faerie folk themselves hold the living trees to be their own ancestors. I propose these “spirits” are little more than the most ancient of the long-lived elven race, who have been so long among the foliage that they have merged with-
Herr Eisenberg:
Preposterous! Do not listen to this ignorant nincompoop! I have researched the matter extensively, having obtained no fewer than four specimens from Wyscan itself! I can tell you conclusively: the Tree Spirits hail from the Immortal Realm. We know that people and things can be possessed by the denizens of that land beyond the Veil – here they have merely inhabited the bodies of trees and thickets, turning themselves to living creatures. I submit they were bound to our Realm in one of the great cataclysms of eons past, and have since become one with the forests of their birth.