Editing 23a:Guild representative

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The '''guild representative''' is a noble which arrives from [[Human]] civilizations to negotiate [[trade]] agreements once you have a [[Broker]]. Once you have a [[Trade minister]], the guild representative can be replaced by the [[merchant baron]], and once you have a [[guildmaster]] you may instead be visited by the [[merchant prince]]. The guild representative, merchant baron, and merchant prince are all effectively identical.

If the guild representative dies, you will ''never'' get a new one in order to establish further trade agreements; however, the upgraded versions will take over once you have the appropriate noble present.

==Interaction==
The representative you receive will speak with whichever of your nobles "summoned" it - the [[broker]], the [[trade minister]], or the [[guildmaster]]. Its function is to ask which goods you would like to have sent with their next caravan (for a higher price), and inform you what goods they would like to buy from you the next time, which they too will pay extra to purchase.

Conducting a meeting in a public place can generate an unhappy [[thought]]. Conducting a meeting in the noble's private office can generate a happy thought based on the quality of the room.

Representatives don't need to eat, drink, or sleep. There is a statement from one of our brokers on this:

:Ironblood: ''"This damn human thingy keeps following me around, suckling on me when I pause for too long. I think it's a foreign custom, but I dare not emulate. He's all disgusting and clean. Though his clothes are almost completely rotted off..."''

==Requests==
The meeting consists of 6 screens with breaks, the breaks giving your noble a welcome opportunity to walk away from the meeting for a snack. Don't think you are done until the representative confirms it and says farewell!
#"On behalf of the Merchants' Guild, let me extend greetings to your people.  There is much to discuss."
#"Let's discuss what we are willing to offer for your craftsmanship..."
#"Well then, we have finalized the export agreement. Feel free to go over the documents."
#:(view whatever goods the Human civilization wishes to buy from you, usually several types of weapons)
#"What requests do you have of our merchants?"
#:(decide which types of goods you want them to bring next year - see below)
#"Well then, we have finalized the import agreement. Feel free to go over the documents."
#:(view the requests you just made, along with the resulting price increases)
#"Again on behalf of the Merchants' Guild, let me bid farewell to you and your stout dwarves."

Trade agreements with Human civilizations will allow you to request a wide variety of goods:
* Leather
* Cloth (but not thread), both plant and silk (though Human civs generally have no access to silk)
* Crafts of various materials - bone leather, wood, [[jade]], [[amber]], or [[coral]], depending on what they have access to
* Pets - caged domestic animals
* Drinks - various types of [[alcohol]]
* Cheeses
* Mill products - [[flour]]s and [[dye]]s
* Extracts - animal ([[milk]]) and plant ([[golden salve]] and [[gnomeblight]])
* Meat/Fish
* Plants (only edible ones)
* Meat/Fish Recipes - this category is always empty, a placeholder for content that was never made available. If non-empty, it would contain specific types of [[prepared meal]]s.
* Other Recipes - see above.

Each type of good can be assigned a Priority using the arrow keys. For each level of priority, the caravan will attempt to bring one "unit" of that good next year (a bin of cloth/leather, a barrel of alcohol, a stack of 5 meat/plant/cheese, one caged animal, etc.) and will also increase the price you must pay for them.

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