Cyclops

Cyclops are mythological creatures of Ancient Greece that have allied with the monster-god Typhon and joined his army to overthrow the Olympian Gods and conquer the mortal world.

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Trivia

 * The Cyclops are members of a primordial race of giants who were born to the primordial gods Uranus and Gaea. The first three Cyclops; Brontes, Steropes and Arges, were born 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 in Tartarus when he assumed the throne of the gods, where they remained, guarded by the female monster Campe, until freed by Zeus to aid them in overthrowing the Titans of Myth. The brothers fashioned thunderbolts for Zeus to use as weapons, and helped him overthrow Cronus and the other Titans. 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. These cyclopes also created Poseidon's trident, Artemis' bow and arrows of moonlight, Apollo's bow and arrows of sun rays, and Hades' Helm of Darkness. At some point during the Age of Heroes, the Cyclops race grew as more were born to various deities and some eventually formed a society in the southwestern part of Sicily where they were considered to have become cannibals, living a rude pastoral life as a wild race of lawless creatures who possess neither social manners nor fear of the Gods. They abstained from agriculture and laws other than "every man for himself". They actively ate human beings and lived with their wives and children in caves ruling over them with arbitrary power.

Meanwhile the three brothers themselves 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.
 * Polyphemus was a man-eating Cyclops who fell in love with a beautiful nymph called Galatea who rejected him in favour for a man named Acis. Polyphemus, enraged by the rejection, threw Acis on a massive rock and killed him. The blood of Acis formed a stream, which still bears his name today. Some time later, the hero Odysseus arrives on the island of the Polyphemus on his way home to Ithica and led his men into a cave full of food unknowing of who the owner was. Polyphemus sealed the cave and the crew within it, eating a few of them. Odysseus managed to trick the Cyclops into getting drunk off of strong wine and told the monster his name was ‘No One.’ Polyphemus fell asleep, and the hero blinded him with a wooden stake, when the other giants came to help, Polyphemus told him ‘No One’ had attacked him, and so they left him. Odysseus and his men bound themselves to the bellies of Polyphemus’s sheep and escaped when the giant let them out to graze. Odysseus could not help but boast about his victory over his defeated adversary and told Polyphemus his name which in turn led to Poseidon, Polyphemus' father, punishing him and causing him to deviate from his route home even more.
 * Cyclops are able to see objects up to 2km away without assistance; however, they have poor depth perception, making it difficult for them to navigate 3-dimensional spaces.