Zenevivia

Zenevivia is a battle mage who takes part in the quest Love Story. She and Dionysius, also known as the Wise Old Man, used to be in love. They enjoyed fighting and had many adventures together. However, Zenevivia soon grew tired of Dionysius's hobby of questing; likewise, Dionysius became bored of Zenevivia's love of pure combat. Eventually she left him in the middle of a one-on-one clan wars fight. In her time away from Wise Old Man, she developed a hatred for adventurers, because they always encouraged people to be weak by helping them, instead of insisting that they help themselves.

Zenevivia ambushes the player while assisting Mabel, who lost her ring. She gives the player a message to deliver to Dionysius, that she challenges them both to a fight to the death. The player and Dionysius infiltrate her house, which was actually Dionysius' house which she stole from him. They fight through a dungeon full of guardians and finally reach Zenevivia to meet her challenge

When fighting, she uses Blood Barrage. If the player has Protect from Magic active, she uses a flame pit spell. She can also teleport among four statues at the battle site. While she is standing on one of the statue pedestals, she uses Protect from Missiles when players use the ranged style and Protect from Magic otherwise. She uses protection prayers only when she is standing on one of the pedestals. Although she doesn't appear to be wearing any armour, she is very resistant to melee. During the battle, the Wise Old Man attacks her exclusively with magic, although he doesn't hit her very often.

Strategies
Players should use Protect from Magic or Deflect Magic for the entire battle to prevent her from using Blood Barrage against them. Since she uses magic almost exclusively (for which players use prayer) and since players cannot do anything to protect against her fire pit spells, there is little advantage to wearing style-specific armour (e.g., dragonhide for ranged or plate for melee). However, by not wearing armour, players can switch combat styles among melee, magic, and ranged without incurring any attack penalties. Amulets (Power, Glory, or Fury) and God books (particularly the Unholy book and Book of balance) are still advantageous for their non-specific boosts. In addition poisoned weapons are not necessary, since Zenevivia is immune.

The Blood spells from Ancient Magicks (Blood Rush, Blood Burst, Blood Blitz, and Blood Barrage) can partially make up for the continual damage players take from her fire pit spells.

If players have a Dragon spear or Zamorakian spear:
 * This battle is far easier if players use the special attack (shove) to push her off whatever pedestal she is using.
 * Players can stand between two pedestals or between a pedestal and the wall to shove her. Alternatively, they can simply rush her with the special attack enabled. She is then forced off the pedestal and provides a brief overhead dialogue, "Hey, That's just rude!"
 * Once she has been shoved off a pedestal, she never uses that pedestal again. Players have to repeat this attack four times, once for each pedestal.
 * The special attack uses 25% of the special attack bar, so players never have to wait for it to recharge.
 * Since she uses prayer only when she's on a pedestal, she uses no prayer at all after she has been shoved off all four pedestals. Players can then choose whatever combat style they desire.

If players do not have one of the spears:
 * Players can stand between two pedestals or between a pedestal and the wall to melee her continuously. If players don't stand in one of those places, they only get one hit before she pushes them away. There is an advantage, however, to using melee not in one of those spots: her kicks usually push players away from her fire pit spell, so they take less damage in this respect. Alternatively, players can stand two squares away and use a halberd, preferably a Rune halberd or Dragon halberd, to melee her continuously.
 * Players can use ranged, in which case she takes damage for one or two hits, until she switches to Protect from Missiles. Using the special of Ruby bolts (e) can greatly speed up the fight, if it activates for this hit. Players must then switch to melee or magic for one or two hits, until she switches to Protect from Magic again. In addition, when she is not praying against magic, she can be hit by spells from the Wise Old Man.
 * Except when switching from ranged for one or two hits, players should generally not use magic. If she prays against magic, she is immune to both the players' attacks and those of the Wise Old Man.

Trivia

 * She follows neither Zamorak nor Zaros although she thinks the Zamorak symbol is more stylish than the Saradomin star. She also finds the Ancient Magicks spellbook useful.
 * The Wise Old Man (Dionysius) nicknames her "Zinny" and she calls him "Dissy".
 * During the final cutscene of Love Story, she picklocks the door then kicks in a different way than a player does.
 * The chapel in Zenevivia's POH has a Zaros theme. You can see this by studying the painted glass windows.
 * Zenevivia's name may be derived from the Latin Zenia, which comes from the Greek Xenia, meaning quest or stranger, and from the Latin Vivia/Vivian, meaning lively. Her name could thus signify Lively Quest, which resembles her combat style, where players get hurt if they aren't lively and keep moving. Lively Stranger is a possibility, although this seems less likely as in the quest Zenevivia is not a stranger to Dionysius, but it could be said that she is a stranger to the player.
 * Zenevivia is the first NPC in RuneScape to use a non-ice spell from the Ancient Magicks. She uses blood and shadow spells instead.