This is hopelessly unfair.

This is, statistically, a moderately above average start in life for a red dragon, and a massively above average start in life for a sentient on Golarion. You're only 3 years old and already CR 6.

You've got perfectly reasonable mental stats, a very good fly speed, pretty solid attacks and defences.

You belong to the single most powerful species in the world.

A species that has been on the verge of extinction for millennia.

I only get any of that if I stay alive for hundreds of years.

Probably I won't make it through the winter. I'll just freeze to death.

Hot air rises over belkzen, and the night is warm in summer high above the badlands. Your +10 perception sees the edges of hills and dried river beds in the terrain below under the moonlight. Though you can't make out individual people, little glowing lights between the hills tell of villages and clanholds.

Why. Why so many like them and so few like me?

More efficient reproductive cycles?
Lower infant mortality rates?
Opposable thumbs?

Either that or the gods just like them more and you less.

They hate you because you're better than them, and so they know they can only hope to win by ganging up. That's why everyone treats red dragons like they're the worst, the absolute bottom.

Even the Holy Paladins of Lastwall would be rooting for their own enemies the orcs, in a fight against a red dragon.

Because they're more Good, comparatively, not because they're less selfish but because they're less powerful. Good is when the weak win and the strong lose.

This is rigged.

This is life. You exist.

If the rules are rigged against you, then cheat. It's not like anyone wasn't going to assume you're not to be trusted anyway.

So what are you going to do next?

If you continue to fly down the Mindspin mountains, you will eventually hunger.

The mountain peaks are cold and barren, but between them are richer valleys of long grass and small scattered woods.

There are giants, ogres, trolls, orcs

No thanks.

Amongst the grass you see a small herd of Aurochs grazing.

15 adults (CR 2, large) and 10 young (CR 1, medium).

They don't have wings.

How high can they jump and get me with those horns?

They are 10 feet in size, and have 5 feet of reach, so they could probably get someone 15 feet above them without jumping?

If they did jump, it'd be a DC 20 acrobatics check to jump 5 feet, and they do not have acrobatics as a skill.

Wait why what are you planning.

Dergaix's fire breath has 20 feet of range, and he needs to stay at 25 feet in the air to be sure of safety.

He won't be able to hit the ground at that height, but he'd be able to hit the taller Aurochs from above.

Dergaix can't see how he can lose this matchup.

Oh shit a dragon scatter.
Oh wait, it's just a wyrmling.

Hmm.

Lets stick together as a herd for now, and run towards the woods.
Maybe he'll do something stupid, or maybe he'll just go away on his own.

You have 40 feet of land speed.
I have 150 feet of fly speed.

We are not the same.

Then the aurochs will stop, and look at him.

Burn.

It's DC 15 to dodge. He has +4 to reflex?

The Auroch had a readied action.
The Auroch falls prone.

He is outside the 20 foot flamethrower range now, and is unharmed?

Huh.

The other Aurochs are all stopped too and staring, though they're still upright.
Dergaix will lower himself an extra five feet and breathe again and-

Aurochs are intelligence 2; they are creatures of instinct, and they have in this moment a few competing instincts.

The first is to prevent any individual from being separated from the herd, to protect their young and injured kin and charge as a defensive line to make full use of their Stampede ability. That isn't useful against a dragon.

The second works against giant eagles stealing their calves, and is to flank them from all sides and gore them to death. That also isn't usually useful against a dragon, but it might handle a very small one.

The third is to scatter. There are two different calls for move-as-a-herd and scatter-individually. They can regroup later or try to join up with other herds, if need be.

Aurochs have been around a while, and instincts can have a wisdom well above their intelligence.

Across eons this approximate situation has happened many times. The answer to what the Aurochs will do is logically dependent on what would happen if they did. Still, it only depends to the limits of what intelligence 2 brains can be evolved to do.

Suppose this Auroch chose to fight.

With the sound of bellowing he charges.

A great mass of meat pushes off itself, jumps up on the prone cow as a platform without regard for what injuries such weight might inflict on his own kin, and with frothing mouth and the sheer angry rage by which the Auroch race has survived this long against the rest of Golarion carries himself into the air horn-first and -

AC 19.

Flippity flappity I'm outside your range again but oh shit was that close.