Opportunist

Overview

An opportunist weighs up its target from what it can see, and its confidence rises and falls with every exchange.

• Low confidence: it tests from a distance.
• Growing confidence: it darts in, bites, darts out and reassesses.
• High confidence: it presses the attack.
• Collapsed confidence: it flees.

What builds its confidence: a target that is visibly hurt (bleeding or in wound shock), already fighting something else, staggered, or facing away; allies nearby; bites that go unpunished.

What breaks it: an ally dying, taking a heavy stagger, being wounded.

Its own low health alone does not make it flee. It judges by what it can see, never by hidden numbers.

See also: creature behaviour.