The focus of mahogany society is to create vibrant, powerful forests. They are self-sustaining communities with little engagement with the outside world. A mahogany's forest is always thick, difficult to traverse, and protected from anyone who is not there to be respectful of it.

Mahoganies live in small groups called groves. Every grove is led by the elders among them, who are most in touch with the trees. The needs of the forest come first, then the needs of the people.

Children are raised nominally by their mothers, but they are usually left to their own devices after they can walk, trusting that the forest, which is attuned to the mahoganies, will keep them safe. Rarely do mahogany children face any real dangers within their own forests. Children gravitate toward different trees during their early years, and by their mid-teens, they usually have found a focus in what kind of trees they will grow and tend to, which plants will be part of their segment of the forest, and how they will best engage with them. They are considered adults around this time and are allowed to take on a patch of forest for themselves.

There are no official marriages or couplings among mahoganies. Sex is always casual. Children who come of these unions almost never know who their fathers are. Gender is loosely understood and accepted, but never really important.

Mahogany communities come together to celebrate the forest and the changing of seasons. They honor each season throughout the year, and they commune with their ancestors through the memory of the trees. When mahoganies reach the age where they no longer need to release excess aether, they spend decades communing directly with the forest and gaining wisdom on how best to guide and protect and serve it. These elders are usually the leaders of the groves after they come back from their communing.