Vulcan

**Vulcan** the Roman God of Fire and Metalworking.

## **Background**

As the son of Jupiter, the king of the gods, and Juno, the queen of the gods, Vulcan should have been quite handsome, but baby Vulcan was small and ugly with a red, bawling face. Juno was so horrified that she hurled the tiny baby off the top of a mountain. Vulcan fell down for a day and a night, landing in the sea. Unfortunately, one of his legs broke as he hit the water, and never developed properly. Vulcan sank to the depths of the ocean, where found him and took him to her underwater grotto, wanting to raise him as her own son. Vulcan had a happy childhood with dolphins as his playmates and pearls as his toys. Late in his childhood, he found the remains of a fisherman's fire on the beach and became fascinated with an unextinguished coal, still red-hot and glowing. Vulcan carefully shut this precious coal in a clamshell, took it back to his underwater grotto, and made a fire with it. On the first day after that, Vulcan stared at this fire for hours on end. On the second day, he discovered that when he made the fire hotter with bellows, certain stones sweated iron, silver or gold. On the third day he beat the cooled metal into shapes: bracelets, chains, swords and shields. Vulcan made pearl-handled knives and spoons for his foster mother, and for himself he made a silver chariot with bridles so that seahorses could transport him quickly. He even made slave-girls of gold to wait on him and do his bidding.

Vulcan later built a smithy under Mount Etna on the island of Sicily. It was said that whenever Venus was unfaithful, Vulcan grew angry and beat the red-hot metal with such a force that sparks and smoke rose up from the top of the mountain, creating a volcanic eruption.

## **Appearance**

Vulcan appears a middle-aged man with a muscular body and shortened curly hair. However his face is reddish and bawling while he suffers from a disfigured leg.

## **Known Powers and Abilities**

As a son of Jupiter and Juno, Vulcan is still very powerful even with his injuries after his fall from his banishment.

* **Super Strength**- Vulcan possesses tremendous amounts of physical strength, being a son of Jupiter and Juno, he is much more powerful than lesser gods, however since he was beat by Jupiter, he might of lost of of his overall strength.
* **Super Stamina**- Vulcan cannot tire under any circumstance, he is able to keep on creating his weapons eternally.
* **Immortality**- As a god, Vulcan is immortal and is thousands of years old and will continue to live forever.
* **Nigh Invulnerability** - Vulcan is immune to all forms of death and trauma, and cannot be killed. However his own weapons are able to seriously harm him.
* **Nigh Indestructibility** - Nothing is able to harm him, though being exiled and being disfigured by Jupiter caused him to sustain an injuries.
* **Regeneration**- Like all gods, Vulcan is able to regenerate any injury in a short amount of time, though his banishment has caused him permeant disfigurement.
* **Pyrokinesis**- Being a god of fire, Vulcan has total control over all forms of fire, he can create and generate fire by conjuring and manipulating it. He is also able to withstand fire itself and negate it as he is capable of walking in lava without so much as flinching.
* **Thermokinesis**- At will, Vulcan can cause extremely hot temperatures to form on objects or other beings.
* **Conjuration**- Vulcan acts as a blacksmith for the gods, he is able to create any weapon and imbue it with divine energy, such as Mercury's sandals.
* **Shapeshifting** **-** Like all of his siblings, Vulcan could shapeshift into mortal or animal form to blend in among humans.
* **Terrakinesis**- Vulcan's power is not limited to just regular fire, he is also able to control volcanic fire and magma by causing earth tremors and causing volcanoes to erupt. While Vulcan is capable of using fire to destroy, he is also capable of using his fire to make volcanic lands fertile.
* **Telekinesis**- Vulcan is able to move anything with his mind effortlessly.
* **Electrokinesis** - Being also associated with lava and volcanoes, Vulcan is able to generate and manipulate volcanic lightning.
* **Power Granting**- He granted his weapons various divine powers and abilities. These powers were strong enough to incapacitate even older gods such as his parents Jupiter and Juno.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Other Deities** - Older, more powerful gods are able to overpower him, on a few occasions, Juno and Jupiter both overpowered him and exiled him.
* **Divine Weaponry** - Weapons that he had created are able to harm him.