Hephaestus

__I'm Hephaestus.__ I love being in my forge, with my hammer and tongs, which mortals usually associate with me. Sometimes I'm called Vulcan, like //volcano//. I'm the god of fire. So yeah, I'm pretty cool. But my life was pretty hard. See, when my mom gave birth to me, I was lame (please don't laugh. It means I can't walk) and not as beautiful as the other Olympians. Being the un-superficial, loving mother that she is, she **threw me off the mountain**. Yeah... I landed on Lemnos, and the **nice** (unlike my mom) people there cared for me. (That's where my forge is now.) Anyway, that ticked me off. So I made her a lovely throne. And when she sat down she was trapped. IT WAS AWESOME!! She couldn't move! She was just stuck there! Yeah, you should'a seen it! Except finally they made me let her go. I kinda felt bad about that a little though... sorry mom :( But sometimes good things happened in my life, too. Like when the legendary Trojan War hero Achilles needed armor. His mother Thetis came to me and asked me to make it for her son. I was so honored. But she had actually saved my life when I fell from Olympus, so of course I was forever indebted to her. And she's so nice, and her poor son needed armor, so I **had** to help them. I made him a shining 5-layer shield with pictures of men and cities and wars and gods. I also made him a golden helmet and armor. If I may say so myself, they were pretty awesome.

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