... Now, I'm not the most knowledgable in elf customs, but things don't QUITE add up to "widow" in my books. Assuming elves have a similarly long lifespan to most fiction, fourteen feels really young to be having a kid. (as compared to just too young for a normal lifespan race). What's more, they're living alone in the woods in spite of being from what is presumably a proud lineage and also not actually having that much power (Very high power, but cripplingly low mana pool). One would expect that unless there is a very tragic backstory involved, they would have moved in with one of the two parents' families rather than this exile-like existence.