Primarily made out of a office, a embassy would serve as a formal diplomatic forum and a informal mailroom for the fortress, easily adopting the international symbol of peace, a dove.
Messenger Mailfetchers.
- The Embassy alerts messengers when there is a letter or message that needs to be picked up, if messengers not sent out by yourself on a mission are allowed by a setting, they'll automatically run out of the fortress to retrieve it. When needed, writing your own letters and statements requires coffers filled with paper within the zone, and scribes to write them out to be ready for your leader to sign off on.
- Neutral civs and mutual allies will buy properties to establish embassies in worldgen, and it is these places with embassies that create the mail inbound to fortress. Its another way of recieving rumors for world-generation, certain statements can be sent off remotely to butter up, make requests and antagonise foriegn site leaders. In hostile nations like babysnatcher/item theif groups, they will create embassies with each other but unless a lasting peace such as a ongoing tribute relation is created, they will not create embassies with their former enemies only dispatch diplomats and representatives.
Your enemies and occasionally your *friends* who you have a poor relation can also send specially insulting scribed letters, and annoying reminders about tree quotas just to clutter up your fortress being randomly generated, or if you feel so inclined you can just use these to decorate your fortress, as dwarves will be amused and feel embarrassed in equal measure gazing at them.
- If a important letter is ignored or blocked by a siege, the civilization might dispatch their own messenger runner to drop it off at the trading depot if possible. Its courteous to pick up a letter first though.
StatementsTables and seats are used for diplomatic meetings as they will talk across the embassy room when seated, exchanging dialogue with the site leader and all other diplomats and representatives in the room. (seats to tables are counted as a requirement, as statements are laid out across the tables, additional chairs are the minimum to seat every representative listening.)
Each person will come with their own statements to read out that influence the tone of the diplomatic meeting, some are useful declarations, demands or just occasionally a big hurl of insults. From the locations details screen you can order up statements of your own, that will give your leader some direction on what to say to the representatives of certain civilizations such as flattery, making formal declarations of peace, alliances or war, and general insults.
- This is separate to the personality & personal talking skills of your site-leader however, a particularly abrasive and unsympathetic mayor/baron/monarch could still completely skewer a straightforward statement of flattery into a very negative direction.
Diplomatic Demands
Diplomats and most civilization leaders wont respect you unless you can prove you are a great fortress by action, and having a especially luxurious embassy, offering them gifts through trade, listening to their demands etc. With similar staging of valued worth similar to guildhalls and temples, when you have enough embassy value, you can petition a full time diplomat of your own to assist in diplomatic work when your leader is busy, incompetent or just sleeping.
- Certain minor sites such as economically connected hillocks, criminal forts, castles and monasteries may end up sending representatives of their own asking for random mixtures of resources, and in return improve your relations with that particular organization. Some may become a connected economic site with many fulfilled requests.
- Fortress siegers such as the subterranean races and weakened goblins/humans/elves can halt their attacks when weary of losses by engaging in diplomacy and requesting peace outright.
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