Hestia

**Hestia**, also known as **Vesta**, is the Goddess of the Hearth, Family, and the Home from Greco-Roman mythology. She is the eldest daughter of Kronos and Rhea, an Elder Olympian, and is a founding member of Mount Olympus.

## Overview

**Hestia** is the virgin goddess of the hearth, the right ordering of domesticity, the family, the home, and the state. In Greek mythology, she is the firstborn child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.

Customarily, in Greek culture, Hestia received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. In the public domain, the hearth of the *prytaneum* functioned as her official sanctuary, and, when a new colony was established, a flame from Hestia's public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement.

The goddess **Vesta** is her Roman equivalent.

## Appearance

Hestia appears as a beautiful young girl with a petite frame, which further emphasizes her unnaturally large breasts. She has clear-blue eyes and long black hair that is tied into two twin-tails by bell-shaped hair ornaments with white-and-blue flower petals.

Her usual attire is a white mini dress with a blue ribbon around her neck and one tied under her breasts around her arms, and a pair of white gloves. She also goes barefoot.

## Personality

Hestia is a good-natured, gentle, and understanding goddess who never says a bad word about anyone. She is far kinder than most gods, who frequently take offense at the slightest provocation, and almost never get angry with anyone, no matter how terrible they are.

She is portrayed to be a calm, relaxing, and humble disposition, and as opposed to other gods, she doesn't seek recognition or attention but exists contentedly at the hearth. She is a very hard-working and busy goddess, rather unlike many of the gods who take their duties and responsibilities in a much lighter manner.

She loves her family with all of her heart, and despite all of their problematic ways, the Greco-Roman gods as a whole love her just as much. Her fondest wish is that her great family can get along, and she is always trying her best to help other people around her. And even though she is obviously unsuccessful in maintaining harmony around her, she still watches out for each and every member in her family. Because of this, it ensures that it is difficult for any god to become angry with her as earnest disposition is rare and valuable amongst the gods.

Despite this, it is implied that, like all other gods, she has a darker side to her nature. During the Titanomachy, she was the one who actively waged war against her father and his allies, even encouraging her siblings to do so, and during their final confrontation with Kronos, she was the one who dealt the final blow and banished him to Tartarus. She was also the goddess who ordered all the Titans sided with Kronos to either be killed or imprisoned, the same go to the gods who chose to remain neutral or had denied the Olympians' safety in the past, according to Selene, thus implying that she also has the tendency to hold grudges, much like her twin brother Hades.

### Roman Form

Hestia can change into her Roman counterpart, **Vesta**. As Vesta, she becomes more disciplined, militaristic, and warlike. Hestia was envisioned by the Greeks as the gentle goddess of domesticity whereas Vesta was considered to be the stern guardian of the Roman state.

In ancient times, the Vestal Virgins were maiden priestesses who maintained the sacred fire housed inside the Temple of Vesta.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose those of heavenly nature, pagan gods such as Hestia are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt her, with some rituals rumored to be capable of even killing immortals such as the pagan gods.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including pagan gods such as Hestia.
* **Lack of Worship & Offerings**: As a pagan god, Hestia gains more power from the prayers, offerings, and sacrifices from mortal devotees, and is dependent on it to maintain her immense divinity. If she stops gaining offerings from her loyal followers, her powers may become immensely weakened. Due to her essence being tied to the Western Civilization, she can gain power from those associated and symbolized by her divine domains, or associated with her or the myths surrounding her.
	+ Due to her being the Goddess of Sacrifices, whose duty is to deliver the powers gained through sacrifices and offerings to the gods such sacrifices are dedicated to, she can maintain and even strengthen her divinity by absorbing the spiritual energy created every time a sacrifice is performed, even if such sacrifice is dedicated to her and performed in her honor.

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to kill or injure fellow immortal gods like Hestia. However, due to her immense power, only a chieftain god’s Symbol of Power is capable of killing her.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Hestia can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
	+ **Longinus**: As the Longinus are Sacred Gears made out of Enochian metals of the highest-ranking, forged by Heavens' forges with the highest-quality Enochian technology and are imbued with fragments of the Biblical God's divinity, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Hestia, to the point where she can never be reborn or resurrected again.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Hestia can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* Her name, *Hestia*, means "hearth, fireplace, or altar".
* Her attributes are fire, the chaste-tree, the fireplace, kettle, and the cloak.
	+ Her sacred animal is the pig and the donkey.
* She would be the last Olympian if the thrones of the gods are destroyed, as her power is enshrined in the hearth.
* In ancient times, she received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household, and, at feasts, the first and last libations were dedicated to her.
* According to Greek mythology, of all the gods and goddesses, she was considered the gentlest, kindest and most forgiving deity with a discreet nature.
* The dark main-belt asteroid - 46 Hestia is named after her.
	+ Vesta - the second largest object in the asteroid belt is named after her Roman counterpart.
		- The Vesta family, a group of asteroids, is named after her alias.
* She is one of the first Maiden Goddesses.