Depop dominions (a la ermor) are sometimes a contentious issue, and a unique challenge. I tried out ermor (I sort of shied away from it for a while), and noticed 1) just how rapidly population could plummet
, and 2) that corpse could was nowhere near the depopulation count.
Sensible, but I thought: where do all the other damn people go? Then: anywhere but ermor! (Wouldn't you, if you were in the middle of the raising of the army of the dead?)
Seems people would beat the devil to get away from ermor... maybe half (or whatever fraction seems best) of their depopulated people could emigrate as refugees to nearby lands. Refugees could increase population, as well as disorder in their new lands... and a migration effect would make sense for a number of random events.
Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there, have fun ascending all.