Killer Queen

Question: Why does Aiona have so many enemies? I can understand some of the Nemetondevos being her enemies (though it seems like almost half of them hate her). But what happened between her and the members of her own pantheon?

What happened is that Aiona is a terrible, vengeful, sociopathic person. I'd be frankly surprised she doesn't have more enemies, honestly, except that until recently she had no social stats to speak of and so other gods tended to ignore her.

The Nemetondevos on her list are pretty much all the ones she's met; with the exception of Belenos, at whom she had a hard time being pissed off because he's just so darn beautiful, she got her hate-on for the others at her own trial, when she and the rest of the band found themselves forced to undergo judgment for their sacking of Paris before the Nemetondevos would allow them to enter diplomatic negotiations (as for the others, Sowiljr was acquitted of the charges of conspiracy, Terminus was convicted of murder and vandalism but was judged to have already served his sentence in Psychic Prison, Zwazo Fou Fou was acquitted on the grounds that they could not prove that he was actually Marcus James instead of his identical twin, and Eztli, who was having something of a nasty rivalry with Andarta at the time, was subjected to trial by combat, which she won and therefore had her charges dropped). Aiona pretty much pled guilty with extremely bad grace - I believe her statement was something along the lines of, "Well, I read your rules last night, apparently by your stupid laws I'm guilty, so hurry up and sentence me so we can get this over with," - and she has carried a grudge against them ever since.

In addition, she's especially un-fond of Andarta, as the latter goddess killed her mother Athena in combat when Athena invaded Dubnolissos at an earlier date. She'd probably be on a crusade to wipe out all the Nemetondevos on the strength of that alone, but she still hasn't met some of them, so they don't appear on her list. It's only through Sowiljr's considerable mojo that she doesn't decide to go destroy all the carefully-laid negotiations they've already been through by trying to stab in some Gaul's face.

As for Hestia and Demeter, she was there when, at Terminus' wedding, both declared their intention to leave to become Titan Avatars, citing various grievances (Hestia did not believe that there was any place for her on Olympus anymore, while Demeter, hysterical that Fimbulwinter had basically allowed Hades to keep her daughter year-round, accused the Dodekatheon of not honoring the arrangement Zeus had set up so long ago). Aiona's immediate reaction, of course, was to demand that they be pursued and destroyed, and she's been quite upset that nobody else wants to march into Muspelheim or Terra with her. (Incidentally, she also went on crusade against Hecate for a while because she thought the goddess was in cahoots with the other two, but Zeus eventually convinced her to cut it out and that she must have misinterpreted something.)

Her disagreements with Iapetus and Thanatos are more philosophical - they're Titans that represent The End, she's a goddess who represents Eternal Continuance. They piss each other off.

Poor Hephaestus is a sad and tragic story; he's Aiona's real father who gave her up to Athena for adoption, a fact that she discovered fairly early on in her Hero career via Mystery. She spent quite a while trying to win his affections as a young Demigod, but since both she and he are bad at social interaction, they ended up in a sort of cold war where neither one knew how to express their feelings. So Hephaestus gave Aiona a letter that she could only open by slowly burning it with magical flame over a long period of time, and the two parted ways. When Hephaestus later decided to go with Hestia to Muspelheim, Aiona flipped out at his betrayal (compounded by the fact that she discovered that he was at least partially responsible for Athena's suicidal dash into Dubnolissos) and had to be restrained by the rest of her band lest she go after him immediately. When she finally gained enough Fire to be able to get his envelope open later, it contained a heartfelt letter from Hephaestus, apologizing that he wasn't a better father, expressing remorse for the way things had turned out and reminding her that he still loved her. She tore it to shreds and declared that she was going to march into Muspelheim alone if necessary to murder him, so Sowiljr is also in charge, currently, of preventing her from attempting to do so lest she get everybody killed. So, yeah, Aiona and her dad are not getting along.

And, of course, Izanami is extremely likely to do bad things to Aiona because Aiona straight-up murdered a helpless Hero-level daughter of Izanami in Japan for her own ends. Izanami's son, Hachiro, has grown quite powerful since the incident and is running a relentless campaign of destruction and chaos against her (and, unfortunately for them, against her bandmates, who are not at all pleased that her murderous streak is ruining their lives as well). He'll probably join the enemy list as soon as he reaches apotheosis himself, which ought to be any day now.

What's really sad is that Aiona's enemy list is only counting those enemies she has that she hasn't already murdered in the face (Ajax and Pastor Timmy, we hardly knew ye!).