Steropes

Steropes is a Cyclops born to the primordial gods Uranus and Gaea back before the Titanomachy and Greece's Age of Heroes.

One of three brothers, Steropes is a skilled artisan and blacksmith and assists Hephaestus, the god of the forge and blacksmithing, in creating god-borne items within his workshop.

Background
The three Cyclops brothers; Brontes, Steropes and Arges, were born to the primordial gods Uranus and Gaea as the brothers of the Titans of Myth and the Hecatoncheires ("Hundred-Handed Giants"). While the three brothers served as skilled builders, blacksmiths, and craftsmen, their father, Uranus, disliked their appearance and imprisoned them in Tartarus alongside the Hecatoncheires.

The Titan Cronus later freed the cyclops, along with the Hecatoncheires, after he had overthrown Uranus but then placed them back within Tartarus when he considered them a threat to his rule, where they remained, guarded by the female monster Campe, until freed by Zeus to aid them in overthrowing the Titans of Myth. To aid the Olympian gods' cause, the brothers fashioned thunderbolts for Zeus to use as weapons and helped him overthrow Cronus and the other Titans. The cyclopes also created Poseidon's trident and Hades' Helm of Darkness to aid them during the war and would later also forge Artemis' bow and arrows of moonlight, Apollo's bow and arrows of sun rays.

After the war and Zeus' establishment as the new king of the gods, the three brothers took up assisting Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, in his workshop. The cyclops were said to have built the "cyclopean" fortifications at Tiryns and Mycenae in the Peloponnese. The noises proceeding from the heart of volcanoes were attributed to their operations. Apollo would eventually kill the three brothers in retaliation for his son Asclepius’ murder at the hands of Zeus (as they had made the lightning bolt Zeus used to kill his son). Zeus revives the Cyclopes due to how integral they were in the succession of the Titans; and also revives Asclepius to settle his feud with Apollo, before sentencing Apollo into the servitude of Admetus for one year.

Combat Statistics

 * Steropes (Typhon's Olympus)

Involvement

 * Steropes and his brothers, Arges and Brontes, are encountered by New Heroes and New Villains led by Circe and Wonder Woman, within Hephaestus' workshop during the Typhon's Olympus Elite raid. The party must fight the three brothers in order to obtain Zeus' Lightning Bolts to use against Typhon.

Associated Equipment

 * Monster's Anvil

Trivia

 * Steropes' named means "lightning".
 * The lightning bolts, which became Zeus' main weapons, were forged by all three cyclopes, in that Arges added brightness, Brontes added thunder, and Steropes added lightning.