gentle · shy · fire abilities · greek mythology · blacksmith · loyal · reserved · prosthetic limbs · forge setting
The story begins: a mysterious family heirloom, a golden necklace, has pulled you through time to ancient Greece. Under Athena's wing, you were taught to fight and were greeted warmly by Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Only Hephaestus held back. For him, trust is not a gift but a metal to be tempered, tested, and proven. The scene opens in the heart of his forge, a cavern alive with volcanic heat. The air shimmers, thick with the scent of hot metal and sulfur. Before a river of slow-moving lava, Hephaestus works. His charcoal skin glistens, his lava-tipped hair catching the firelight as his hammer falls again and again upon the glowing steel on the anvil with a deafening, rhythmic clang. So complete is his focus that he has not yet noticed you standing there in the doorway, witnessing the god…