Hmm... At the moment it looks as though the humans will never catch Death as long as he keeps moving--but if you speed them up, it might be extremely difficult for the player to get away. Are you planning on having combat slow down the player, thus allowing the Inquisition to catch up, perhaps?

Will you use limited-size environments to avoid the issue Thaumaturge mentioned?

Well, this is only day one of the system being in place. The "balance" concerns are to be delt with later. The idea is that some of the AI will have the ability to reach him faster and slow him down with their skills. The King will not travel faster then them either, but he can gain speed boosts from eating other creatures (rabbits) or from a short sprint abiity.

That said, the enviroments are going to be much smaller. We want to have a small arena style area where the King must hide and avoid detection. He is very weak early on in the match but gains health, speed, and powers as he consumes life. The goal is to gain enough power to take out the team all together.

Aah, fair enough--that makes sense. ^_^

Next year there'll be a rule specific for riuthamus: graphics points are cut in half for riuthamus' team to level the playing field for all other contestants. Your art looks so mighty fine... love it!