I always struggle to remember how the Padjal fit into things. I remember that O-App-Pesi is E-Sumi-Yan's brightest pupil, but that he's often off in the wood on his own. E-Sumi-Yan is the master of the Conjurer's Guild, if I remember correctly, because the Senna siblings are the current Seedseer Concil that lead Gridania.

Every organization within Gridania is assigned a conjurer overseer, and all of this is filtered back through E-Sumi-Yan to the Seedseer Council, so Brother E-Sumi is an extremely important member of Gridanian society, but I don't recall him ever actually being it's official leader, mainly just its de facto one, considering that the Seedseers live in and for the wood, rarely coming to the city itself. Kan-E returned permanently to be protected from the Empire and raise the morale of the people.

Likewise, I don't recall anything about Kan-E's appearance playing into her position. She is the eldest, anyway, afterall. Now, I don't doubt for a second that she was designed to be slightly older so that we would take her more seriously, but as an actual lore concern, I don't recall it coming up.

Like I said, though... my padjal lore is perpetually rusty. At best.