Diplomacy:

• Expanded Diplomacy options for (non-Nomadic) Independent Realms.
• There is a limit of one diplomatic action per turn. Future updates will add ways to increase this limit.
• Some of the existing actions now have a greater integration with diplomatic stats (reputation, regard, anger, etc.)
• Assuage: Will improve relations with a realm and reduce their fear of you (note that fear can be beneficial in some situations).
• Insult: Will harm relations with a realm, but can improve relations with other realms that hold a negative view of the target.
• Threaten: Will harm relations with a realm and may increase fear (depending on their perception of your strength). It may also yield Influence points.
• Vassalage: With high relations you can try to vassalize a realm (high fear increases the chance of success). This will give you a significant portion of their income. You will also automatically declare war on any aggressor towards them. Failure to protect a vassal from attacks may result in a dissolution of the relationship. Vassalage also affects events and some diplomatic actions.
• Gift: Gold can be used to improve relations with specific realms.
• Request Character: Search for a Follower in the target realm. Culture will affect what character type categories are available to choose from. Gives you the option of hiring the follower - the choice will affect diplomatic relations. Realms with the 'Dedicated Haven' trait can provide special followers of supernatural or non-standard cultural origin.
• Most diplomatic actions will affect other realms based on their Attitude and cultural outlook. For example, a Warrior Nation will frown upon seeking out non-Martial followers.
• Minor realm traits will now affect diplomacy and events to a much greater degree.
• A search function has been added to the Diplomacy window, making it easier to find a faction as an increasing number of these are discovered and added to the window over the course of a game.

• 5 new Achievements added related mostly to Diplomacy.
• Right-clicking a (center) unit during battle deployment will mark it as Vanguard.
• Planewalker (Wizard Trait): New ability (affected by cooldown) which can be used to move an army near the Wizard Tower instantly to any known location on the map.
• Minor factions now have unique heraldry. This is a work-in-progress and the colors+sigils are not shown on their armies yet. Multi-color backgrounds are still pending. Cultural factors are considered when assigning sigils and balanced against seeking a variety of unique sigils in a particular world.
• Added numerous new sigils for faction heraldry.
• Added about 200 new character portraits, more than doubling the previous number of unique portraits. This includes portraits from some races which previously had no such (fx minotaurs) and a variety of human/non-human portraits for existing races. Undead, demonic and celestial characters in particular now have greater variety.
• Added new naming templates for culture-specific units.
• Elemental Cultism religion added.
• During character generation assignment of 'cosmic/special' religions now considers a greater variety of factors - and the pool of these religions drawn from has been expanded.
• Expanded character name pool for the 'generic' language.
• Defeating an enemy Wizard will now create a special Monument site.
• Rebalanced output of Mana Nodes. It is now generally lower, but the cost of binding has also been reduced (but to a lesser degreee, relatively).
• Rebalanced Unit Training experience to be more rewarding, but less exploitable.
• Captives can now be handled after battles with a variety of options. Some of the effects are only partially implemented, and there is a known issue where it is possible to begin resolving a new battle before handling captives from a previous battle. Doing this will result in the captives being ignored. A fix for this issue and implementation of all options will happen in a patch soon.
• Orb of Channeling (Enchant Item): Creates an item for a follower which increases mana usage limits during battles involving the follower.
• Amulet of Protection (Enchant Item): Creates an item for a follower which can protect the follower from a variety of dangers and magical threats.
• Healing Potion (Life Spell): Creates a (stackable) item for a follower which can save them from death in some circumstances and can be used to heal from injuries.
• Ambient Character Activity: A Bodyguard given more responsibility may change to a new class, depending on circumstances and culture.
• Ambient Character Activity: Alchemists can create Healing Potions for themselves and others.
• Ambient Character Activity: Apothecaries can now heal other characters from permanent or temporary injuries.
• Enchantment and Artifice mastery now affects the limit on concurrent Enchant Item projects.

• Fixed the debuff from unpaid upkeep not being applied to units in all intended situations.
• Fixed a number of missing tooltips on World Actions and spells
• Fixed a number of memory leaks
• Fixed a serious performance/stability issue affecting manual resolution of large battle
• Fixed notable characters not being generated for some sites during world generation.
• Fixed army icons glitching out when moving from certain coordinates. This has been a persistent and annoying bug for a long time, so it's good to finally have it fixed, as it looked very bad when it happened.
• Fixed garrison armies so they're again not part of the 'quick cycle army list', which made it annoying to use and sometimes break.
• Fixed various text errors where debug information was shown instead of the correct data.
• Fixed missing tool tips on the multicast grid.
• Fixed expected mana income/expenditure being calculated incorrectly in some cases (the upper-left panel)
• Fixed 2 enchantment spells not being unlocked at the correct mastery levels.
• Fixed some character traits being incorrectly categorized as personality traits, which meant the 'counts-as-class'' traits were sometimes assigned to characters who already had the class.
• Fixed some nomad camps not having notable characters.
• Fixed additional cases of recruitment not being cancelled when the recruitment location is lost.
• An army with a planned path extending beyond the current turn is no longer de-selected on turn end.