Hephaestus

Lame smith of the gods, "skilled in crafts more than all the sons of Heaven"; born of Hera alone in Hesiod, of Zeus and Hera in Homer. The Iliad has him thrown from Olympus twice — by Zeus in book 1, by his mother in book 18 — and shows his workshop with self-moving tripods and golden handmaids, where he forges the shield of Achilles. In the Odyssey he nets Ares and Aphrodite.