[thejeff]

I think you can assume the mages Lab won't be shark infested.

More generally, this brings up some conceptual problems with the whole poptype model. You can bloodhunt in any land province and you get human blood slaves. This would seem to indicate that, despite the defenders and recruitables the main population is always human. But those humans, and even those where both defenders and recruitables are human thrive best under the rulers temperature scale. Niefelhiem conquers some indy lizard province and suddenly their crops grow better in the dead of winter? Best not to think about it too much...