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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8780393" data-attributes="member: 27957">How? Why? Power is not automatically transitive. The set of skills necessary for civic leadership or mercantile success are an entire career path of their own. Access to magic is useful, but access can be bought or negotiated. It doesn't have to be possessed personally or not at all.Leaders don't build bridges, fight wars, collect taxes, or educate the youth. Leaders possess the skills and authority to organize and delegate those tasks to the countless specialists necessary for those roles. One person can not do everything; they don't have the skills and can't be everywhere at once.&nbsp;So your average magic user makes a terrible leader, because when they don't have their nose buried in arcane research they're trying to harness their mystic might to do everything themselves. It's unsustainable and makes for a terrible leadership model. Even if a wizard assumes control through overwhelming might, the first thing they're going to do is to appoint a regent to handle all the tedious day to day work of running the polity. At least, they will if they have any sense. Otherwise you get the mad sorcerer king that runs the nation into the dirt and gets slain by a hero.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 8780393, member: 27957"] How? Why? Power is not automatically transitive. The set of skills necessary for civic leadership or mercantile success are an entire career path of their own. Access to magic is [I]useful[/I], but access can be bought or negotiated. It doesn't have to be possessed personally or not at all. Leaders don't build bridges, fight wars, collect taxes, or educate the youth. Leaders possess the skills and authority to [I]organize and delegate[/I] those tasks to the countless specialists necessary for those roles. One person can not do everything; they don't have the skills and can't be everywhere at once. So your average magic user makes a terrible leader, because when they don't have their nose buried in arcane research they're trying to harness their mystic might to do everything themselves. It's unsustainable and makes for a terrible leadership model. Even if a wizard assumes control through overwhelming might, the first thing they're going to do is to appoint a regent to handle all the tedious day to day work of running the polity. At least, they will if they have any sense. Otherwise you get the mad sorcerer king that runs the nation into the dirt and gets slain by a hero. [/QUOTE]

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