Honestly unoccupied land sounds easier on basically all parameters even without the slavery problem. All the slavery problems. I'm stressing the one side of possibility here but I'm not not making it up.
Let me know if you need more examples of the horrors that can befall respective victims where we're from for convincingness; I have a collection.
Very happy to put all the pressure you want. If we need angles, my friend'd be a slave-or-whatever where I'm from, and vice-versa - well, I'd be dead, but, details - and I spent a bit as a mage-slave actually.
Well, we've got lots of help to give and have been kind of stuck on how to manage giving it, so.
"Don't think anyone's answered me yet on if anyone needs healing right at this moment, by the way. Or some crops or wards or something."