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Diplomats from ''other'' civilizations tend to arrive on the map edge up to a week before or after their civilization's [[caravan]], once your fortress has a [[baron]]. Each diplomat will attempt to attend a meeting with your [[Expedition leader|leader]]: they will typically follow your leader around, waiting for an opportunity to discuss your situation. Your leader will need to perform the [[Meeting|Conduct Meeting]] job, sometimes for quite a while, to satisfy the visiting diplomat; by default they will want to do this in an [[office]], though they will use a bedroom (somewhat grudgingly, with an accompanying negative thought) if no office is available.

In the event that your leader is replaced, killed, traveling off-site, or taken by a [[strange mood]], the diplomat may decide to leave your fortress [[stymied|"unhappy"]].{{bug|576}} Curiously, this will '''not''' occur if your leader is otherwise unable to perform the "conduct meeting" task. You can currently lock a diplomat in a room and they will wait years to attend the 'meeting' your noble is constantly conducting (and all subsequent diplomats appear to wait in line for the first to finish); this behavior is presumably a bug.{{bug|8947}}

==Dwarven diplomats==

Dwarven diplomats are typically only encountered in Fortress mode - they do not visit your fortress, nor can you appoint one yourself. Instead, your own dwarven civilization sends an [[outpost liaison]] to negotiate trade agreements with your fortress (assuming your fortress is not the mountainhome).

 

 

However, dwarven diplomats may occasionally become citizens of your fortress, both by immigration (e.g. as [[King consort|consort]] to an arriving [[monarch]]) and royal (not player-controlled) appointment. Citizen diplomats currently do not conduct meetings or otherwise perform diplomacy, though they do have room requirements equivalent to an outpost liaison and may issue [[demand]]s.

==Elven diplomats==

Once your baron has been appointed, the neighboring [[Elf|elven]] civilization will attempt to make ''first contact'' - at the very beginning of the year, their diplomat will appear ''unannounced'' at the edge of your map and immediately attempt to meet with your new leader. If you have cut down any [[tree]]s, you will be scolded and given a stern warning - {{dftext|You have disrespected the trees in this area, but this is what we have come to expect from your stunted kind. Further abuse cannot be tolerated. Let this be a warning to you.|2:1}} - otherwise you will be congratulated for your kindness to the environment: {{dftext|What a pleasant surprise! Not a single tree here weeps from the abuses with such ease by your people. Joy! The dwarves have turned a page, not that we would make paper. A travesty! Perhaps it is better to say that dwarves have turned over a new leaf, and the springtime for our two races has just begun.|2:1}}

During subsequent visits (which will happen within a few weeks of the arrival of their caravan), elven diplomats will ask you to limit your tree-cutting to a varying amount of trees depending on the [[Surroundings|surroundings]] of your fortress. If you agree to this concession, the civilization {{k|c}} screen will track the number of [[Wood cutter|Fell Tree]] jobs you complete during the year, shown as (remaining allowed cuts)/(total allowed cuts). Both above-ground and, currently, subterranean trees are counted. They will then share with you news of the world like an outpost liaison would. The agreement (and the count) remain in effect until the next year's agreement is negotiated. If you stay within this limit, the bond between your civilizations will be strengthened; violating it will strain diplomatic relations and potentially lead to attacks.

The negotiated number of tree-fells in the quota may be altered by other factors, including your noble's [[Room#Quality|office quality]], happiness, and social skills. Maximizing each of these can allow your noble to talk the elves into letting you cut down a few extra trees each year.

If you have managed to start a [[war]] with the elves, whether due to a mishap involving their caravans or from violating a tree-cutting quota, the diplomat may offer a peace treaty.

It is a well-known fact among the dwarf nobility that many seemingly-rude interruptions and delays such as sleep, drinking, deconstructing of walls, etc., that occur on a regular basis during the conduction of diplomatic meetings with elves actually serve one simple purpose: to stretch the period of time when the old tree-cutting agreement is no longer in force, but the new agreement is not yet signed. During that time, all the fortress woodcutters must clear-cut as many trees as possible.

==Human diplomats==

Diplomats from [[human]] civilizations tend to just say {{dftext|It's such a pleasant place you've carved out for yourselves...|7:1}} They will then share with you news of the world like an outpost liaison would, as well as draw up a trade agreement for the next caravan {{version|0.47.01}}. If you are at war with them, the diplomat may offer a peace treaty.

Sometimes, under certain circumstances, a human diplomat may be a [[necromancer]]. When such an event occurs, you will not be notified of the diplomat's arrival, nor will you be able to see them. They will act as a normal, non-diplomat necromancer: sneaking around your fort undiscovered, raising the dead and causing havoc. When they ''are'' discovered, you will get the alert message ''"Invaders! Drive them away!"'', the game will pause and the camera will zoom to them. At this point they become hostile to your civilization, scaring dwarves and setting off traps. Your militia may also try and kill them. It is unknown whether keeping them caged/pitted harms your relationship with a civilization, but killing them certainly does.

A human diplomat may also be a [[vampire]] who enjoys recreationally visiting your fortress and hanging around having fun... while draining your citizens of blood.  Most normal methods of vampire detection are frustrated by lack of introspection into the diplomat's characteristics.  A diplomat can be accurately convicted of the murder of one of your citizens and receive no sentence, possibly enjoying diplomatic immunity (or some element of the justice system may be confused by the situation; or, since the observed case was a law-giver visiting a Mountainhome, the principle involved may have been head of state privilege rather than ordinary diplomatic immunity).