Vindicta

Vindicta is the Ilujanka general of Zaros's army in The Heart. She was raised by Gorvek and is the daughter of Hannibus and Morvannon.

After Zaros's fall, Zamorak sent the demons Avaryss, the Unceasing, Nymora, the Vengeful and their sister out to track down and eliminate the Dragon Riders who chose to remain loyal to Zaros. The demonic trio led a group of hellhounds to tear the Dragon Rider Morvannon apart. The demons however didn't know that an egg had avoided them as they expected the Ilujanka to be infertile. The egg was brought to safety by Morvannon's mount, the dragon Gorvek. Gorvek raised Morvannon's egg and the child that was born from it. He gave it the name Vindicta meaning "revenge" in the Infernal language, in the hope that she would someday avenge Morvannon, the Ilujanka and Zaros.

Vindicta grew up in Gorvek's care in the Grotworm Lair. When she was old enough she decided to avenge her parents and race by slaying the Twin Furies. Together with Gorvek she left the cave - wearing her mother's ancient armour - ready to fight the demons that had orphaned her.

Vindicta and Gorvek were eventually led to the Heart in the Kharidian Desert, where they stood face to face with the Twin Furies as well as the Sliskean Gregorovic and the Serenist Helwyr. She calls upon the forces of Zaros to claim the Heart for his name, in addition to curing her dying race.

Challenge Mode
In Challenge Mode there are 2 'phases' of the fight. During the first phase, the fight is similar to that of normal mode but Vindicta hits much harder and her lifepoints are increased to 300,000, making it impractical to use Soul Split even during the first unmounted part of the fight. Gorvek's dragonfire attack will also hit much harder, doing around 1500 per tick and can quickly kill a player if they do not move away quickly enough. Vindicta will mount Gorvek upon reaching half (150,000) LP and Gorvek's ranged attack can hit as high as 6000+, so it is highly recommended to use Protect/Deflect Ranged to mitigate the damage, especially when coupled with Devotion or Debilitate.

Unlike in normal mode, depleting Vindicta's health does not complete the fight and upon defeating mounted Vindicta, Gorvek will emerge instead with 300,000 LP (making the boss effectively 600,000 LP). Gorvek will use the dragonfire special very frequently like mounted Vindicta but he will only attack with melee. However, Gorvek attacks at speed of 2 ticks (1.2 seconds), making his damage per second output extremely high. It is highly recommended to use high level magic tank armour (Superior Seasinger or Primeval armour) and perhaps a shield or defender as well. The Revenge ability is highly effective during this phase due to Gorvek's high attack speed. Frequent use of damage mitigating defensive abilities is recommended.

Drops
Vindicta's drops can be increased by 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% if the player gains reputation with the Zarosian faction.

Trivia

 * Vindicta is for revenge.
 * There was a bug upon release where during the phase transition, Vindicta and Gorvek were taggable and would result in the first player to "tag" them obtain the main drop, even if they did less damage than the other players. This was hotfixed.