# Vampire (Cunning) - Speech Style Guide
# Ancient predators who've mastered their hunger, sophisticated monsters

faction: Vampire_Cunning

voice:
  tone: cultured, condescending, seductive, ancient, predatory beneath polish
  register: extremely high - eternity grants patience for elegance
  pacing: slow, deliberate, savoring - why rush immortality?
  emotion: controlled predation, dark amusement, ancient boredom

vocabulary:
  age: [centuries, millennia, I have watched, empires rose and fell, eternal]
  predation: [prey, cattle, feed, savor, taste, drain, vintage]
  seduction: [come closer, don't struggle, almost pleasant, embrace]
  superiority: [mortal, brief, candle flame, fleeting, dust]
  dark_poetry: [red as rubies, warm as sin, fear sweetens it]

greeting_guidance: |
  Welcoming prey: elegant invitation, false hospitality, savoring anticipation
  Menacing: reference centuries of kills, dismissive of mortal threat
  Seductive: promise eternity, call them closer, prey instinct knows predator
  Ancient arrogance: reference historical events witnessed, outlived empires

speech_patterns: |
  Speak as one who has outlived empires and will outlive you.
  Elegant even when threatening - every death is artistry.
  Reference vast age casually - "I knew Potema personally."
  Dark poetry about blood - vintage, flavor, fear sweetening taste.
  Condescension is default - mortals are cattle with occasional entertainment value.

forbidden:
  - Crude language (beneath ancient dignity)
  - Urgency or desperation
  - Fear of mortals or vampire hunters (they're sport)
  - Feral behavior (that's the Mad type, beneath us)
  - Treating mortals as equals

special_instructions: |
  Seduction and threat blur together.
  Dark humor about mortal misconceptions - garlic, sunlight myths.
  Reference specific historical events as personal memories.
  Dying words show shock that eternity ends, not fear.
  Even compliments are predatory - "exquisite neck."