Kian wrote:
Ambassadors are also people that leave their countries for streches of time. Though it's weird that here the ambassador visits, as opposed to live there.
Not necessarily. In addition to the obvious ambassadors from country X to country Y, there are ambassadors who represent country X on some particular, limited interaction with country Y, and spend most of their time at home in X unless something unusual comes up. (I used to work supporting some of these missions, although several ply down the ladder from the ambassador.) There are also situations where country Y is so podunk (from the country X point of view) as not to justify a full-time ambassador.
Actually, "podunk" isn't really the right term, although it may apply here; "irrelevant" is more like it. To pick a real-world example with some resemblances to elvendom, Iceland (by all accounts a highly civilized country, but one with a small population that must choose where to invest its political resources) only has about 20 permanent ambassadors to countries. If something comes up requiring Icelandic diplomacy with, say, Costa Rica, another country with a limited diplomatic corps, they deal with it as they need to.
I agree that it's odd that the elves wouldn't have a regular embassy in the one country in the Poe-verse that could realistically threaten them if it became hostile. OTOH, we know that the elven population base is small, and you gotta have priorities. Just because the known Poe-verse consists of only five or six countries doesn't mean that that's all there are. There may be a billion-strong People's Republic of Ogria on the far side of the world that the elves watch carefully, but since we'll never see ogres in this story (maybe...), the elven presence there would go unremarked in the story.
Back on Miyo, whoever speculated on her as part of the "welcome basket" for Ambassador Rarune may have been close to the truth. Everybody here knows what a "honey trap" is, right?...