-Say I'm an evil rager. On Monday I'm attacked by FortGuy. I make him flee and nobody dies. He's not a mage.

-On Tuesday I'm walking down Eastern and see FortGuy. Can I punk him?

In this situation I would generally say yes. As a villager you have a right to defend yourself from a plausable threat and may even iniate combat to affect that. The key in this example is that the two people happened upon each other and the villager reacted to protect themselves in this encounter. The rest of your stuff about mages being online doesn't even matter.


The behavior I am refering to is the distinction between fighting and hunting.

If for example you are hunting for mages and see fortguy solo killing dark arial guards you can't run up and kill them.

Obviously in this case they are engaged in something else so you can't claim self defense.

To go back to your original example if you see fortguy on east road and notice he is moving towards galadon and decide to follow him. Then track them to the inn, then follow them into voralia, then along shepards row to tir-talath and then attack them in tir talath when they are obviously trying to avoid you you have crossed the line from attacking to hunting and at that point your behaviour becomes out of bounds.