Following HG's and TUP's comments, I thought it might be useful to put down some general observations on wood elves, which hopefully help flesh out Eshalu and provide some setting flavour. This summary is based on some work I did in re-designing elves for my own tabletop campaign and internet fiction.<br/><br/><strong>Society</strong><br/><br/>Wood elven society is flat. There is no established hierarchy and to the human observer, social relations are anarchical. Individuals instinctively and culturally recognise the need to act in the common interest and will therefore generally defer to different authorities in different matters (e.g. druids in spiritual matters, rangers in matters of territory or hunting etc.), on the basis that the authority provides advice, rather than a command or order. The concept of an imperative command given by a socially entrenched authority figure is foreign to them.<br/><br/>To put it another way, Eshalu cannot understand "taking an order". Rather, she will follow advice from a more senior ranger because she personally knows, trusts and has affection for that ranger.<br/><br/><strong>Life-paths</strong><br/><br/>A wood elf's role in life is usually determined by an augury cast at birth. Castes include artisans, gatherers, druids/shamans, rangers etc. No caste has higher or lower social status and all are considered, both ceremonially and in practice, equally important. This is reflected in the internal organisation of the Lodge of Rangers, where glory or kudos (wood elven does not have terms to represent these concepts, the best translation being "stories" or "lore" which are built collectively) are shared. Aggressive internal competition is discouraged.<br/><br/><strong>Family</strong><br/><br/>There is no nuclear or extended family. Children are raised communally and have feelings of kinship with the rest of the clan and, generally, with wood elves ("kin-brothers/sisters") and other elves ("far-brothers/sisters"). One's cast and age-class determine the degree of emotional and personal closeness. For example, Eshalu was raised with the small group of female ranger candidates of approximately the same age - they have shared the same upbringing and cultural education (first by druids acting as care-givers and surrogate mothers, then by senior rangers in the Lodge of Rangers), close living space and experiences. By the time they are initiated to be rangers, they are a fully formed and self-regulating "team". Being cut-off from this sisterhood is deeply traumatic; hence Eshalu's wariness and desire to replicate this structure even on the "outside".<br/><br/><strong>Gender roles and sexuality</strong><br/><br/>There are no gender roles and sexuality is entirely fluid. Formal or legal notions of private property are alien to wood elves and they therefore have no notion of marriage or family as an economic unit. Individual wood elves may form a ceremonial "bond", which is a sign of deepest friendship as well as romantic affection (one soul sharing two bodies), but is usually non-exclusive. A rough rule of the thumb suggests that such formal bonding relationships are equally distributed between male/male, female/female and male/female. Reproduction is entirely de-coupled from romantic relationships and tends to be functional. Wood elves have a marked cultural and social distinction between sex and reproduction.<br/><br/>Rangers and druids, however, have longstanding customs of gender segregation, largely because males are associated with the day and solar and celestial patron spirits, whilst women are associated with night and lunar and stellar patron spirits. Eshalu's Lodge of Rangers refers to the lunar warrior-tradition of the Moon Huntress, whose rites and secrets are kept by female druids. There is an equivalent Lodge for males and the two conduct largely separate existences. In these contexts, only same-sex relationships are considered appropriate, not unlike the Theban Band or certain warrior-classes in ancient Sparta.<br/><br/>Aside from basic caste-specific restrictions, wood elves have virtually no sexual or gender-related prohibitions. Human taboos on nudity and sex are considered bizarre, if not downright unreasonable.<br/><br/><strong>Culture</strong><br/><br/>Elven society is pantheistic and has no concept of history the ways humans would understand. Everything beyond living memory is a "story" or "lore", which in turn generates customs and accepted traditions. Beyond this shared cultural repertoire, wood elves have no laws and tend to be surprised at the level of effort many human cultures expend in creating elaborate codes and categorisations for everything. Though they are a pre-literate society (and have conceptual difficulty understanding the abstract nature of most human writing systems), they can draw upon a vast corpus of lore held by spirits which, like Eshalu is often keen to point out, have a better memory than parchment or the one writing upon it.<br/><br/>Perfectly adapted to their hostile environment, wood elves have excellent visual-spatial memories and have the added benefit of being able to relive  (rather than simply remember) memories on a number of sensory levels. This has an important bonding function. For example, Eshalu could say to a ranger in her age-class "remember that time when..." and they could both relive the shared experience, helping cement the bond of close kinship.<br/><br/><strong>Language</strong><br/><br/>Wood elven in any of its many dialects is notoriously difficult for outsiders to speak, even those who are otherwise fluent in other elven tongues. As with most elven languages, grammar and syntax are very simple, but wood elven is almost impenetrably context-heavy and densely allusive. In practice, if one is unfamiliar with wood elven myth and lore, it is virtually impossible to speak the language correctly. This is further complicated by a bewildering phonology which human vocal chords find difficult to reproduce and a large part of the vocabulary which is wholly untranslatable, since it relates to the unique wood elven view of the spirit world and a variety of emotions which humans cannot express...of course, the opposite is also true. Eshalu struggles with human semantic concepts which could be taken as granted across most human cultures and struggles with human pronunciation.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>I kept this summary relatively brief in order not to veer into tl;dr territory, but I'm happy to answer any questions and participate in any further discussion/development.