Balancers during the distant past were not always people who lived on certain lands and owned land of their own that they settled on.
They were not always like the Balancers and Watchers of the present times.
There were Balancers and Watchers that would travel from land to land, never settling down in one place, as they carried out their duties and made a living from it, while doing other jobs when needed to be able to survive.
In the present era, they would likely be referred to as drifters rather than nomads.
Perhaps there would have been Balancers and Watchers present in various locations, but not all areas were completely safe for them to remain and carry out their duties unless they had a certain level of power and secrecy to ensure that they could survive that way.
It could be imagined how things could have turned out for such people without such power and secrecy during much darker times of history, where witch hunts and other practices were present.
