Added a predator hawk enemy
A wild predator hawk now patrols, circles, and dives at Aurelie, while tree cover can deter its attack.
The lake needed something that could look back. Until now, its wildlife was food or scenery. The new predator changes the feeling of open ground because it is built from the same physical language as Aurelie—wings, feathers, airspeed, contact, and a body that has to move through the world.
The dark hawk is a fully feathered enemy with its own groom, proportions, flight poses, and movement. Giving the hunter a physical body makes its approach and dive part of the world rather than an invisible threat.
“The lake changed the moment one of its creatures began making a plan about the player.”
The hawk uses that rig to hunt Aurelie. It enters from a distance, patrols overhead, circles when it finds the player, and commits to a stoop. Trees matter because cover can deter the attack. A strike costs health; losing the target changes the hunt rather than leaving the hawk glued to an invisible waypoint.
For testing, P can summon or dismiss the hunter. In normal play the Wildlife setting now starts it disabled, so the player can learn the lake without being immediately hunted and turn the full food-chain pressure back on when ready.
The clip shows Aurelie being pursued by the AI-controlled hawk in a staged above-canopy encounter. The hawk closes in but does not strike in this take; fixed-step capture is not a live frame-rate benchmark.