He doesn’t even make his own lightning bolts. Hephaestus does that. I don’t know how much command of electricity, much less electochemical signaling, he has.
Fun fact, Hephaestus was not a blacksmith, he was a bronze smith.
The god was created before the Iron Age started.
There are several ways to make bronze, but one of the most common was arsenic bronze. It was much stronger than tin bronze, but also meant that you had to melt arsenic.
So yeah, bronze age smiths had short lifespans and crippling neurologic issues from toxic metal inhalation.
He doesn’t even make his own lightning bolts. Hephaestus does that. I don’t know how much command of electricity, much less electochemical signaling, he has.
That’s been retconned in practically every portrayal of Zeus in the past 100 years, we are allowed to update the myths with better lore.
Nothing says better lore like removing the only disabled person from the pantheon!
Fun fact, Hephaestus was not a blacksmith, he was a bronze smith.
The god was created before the Iron Age started.
There are several ways to make bronze, but one of the most common was arsenic bronze. It was much stronger than tin bronze, but also meant that you had to melt arsenic.
So yeah, bronze age smiths had short lifespans and crippling neurologic issues from toxic metal inhalation.
Wow you need to take a step back and reevaluate how you talk to people if you’re going to call me a bigot out of nowhere like that.
I didn’t, I told you your better lore is ableist, it’s on you to double down.