Elassa has rarely been a leader. The woman herself says she does not want to lead, I almost respect her for it. I would, but her reasoning is simply one of sloth and apathy rather than a real respect for power. Arcadia's management reveals Elassa's weakness, she is lax to the extreme, only taking interests in pet projects or favouring a certain class to raise a generation of prodigies. If Kassandora had never come along, then magicians would still be stuck in that dismal, post-Worldbreaking state of simply being ever-wanderers and universal handymen for hire. Kassandora's Militarization of Magic did in a few years what centuries of Divine and Mortal plans could not: it made them useful to the state and it reintegrated magicians back into societies.