Quote Originally Posted by Carl
Random Question: Does the Diplomacy Mission refer to Actual missions give by the council/pope, (i.e. the make contact missions), or to any diplomatic attempt at anything?
"Mission" in the traits and ancillary file refers to random attempts at something. When it's a mission på guilds/nobles/pope, it has a "and Payback_ID Pope/guild" line. Check for example the trait "pope's enforcer".

This goes for all mission, diplomatic, spying, assassination, denouncing and aquisition.