Empire. Furthest place south, and the unpredictable player in how things'll shake out, as I've learned.

[Quite literally. Traveling in Vairaya had afforded Waver a chance to pay for a few university lectures to sit in on, and he had made sure to pick those that related to the current state of the world.]

And you're right, we'd make a nice excuse. One of us also has dragons, but three versus many isn't exactly great odds.