26 parts Ongoing Hephaestus, the god of fire and forge, endured centuries in an unwanted marriage-constantly betrayed, humiliated, and unloved. He tried to accept it, to carry on with dignity. But it wore him down.
Until he met Esperanza Valdez.
A mortal woman with a heart of gold and eyes that saw the man beneath the scars, Esperanza offered him what no goddess ever had: unconditional love. With her, Hephaestus finally knew peace. But even gods are bound by time, and his days with her were numbered.
Desperate to leave behind a legacy of their love, Hephaestus intended to break his marital vows for the first time, to leave Esperanza with a demigod child. But fate dealt them a cruel hand. A tragic accident left Esperanza unable to bear children in her past had broken her most cherished wish- to become a loving mother.
Hephaestus refused to accept that ending.
Using every ounce of his divine craft, he defied nature itself. With Olympian silver, lightning, ichor from his veins, and Esperanza's blood- he forged something no god had ever dared attempt:
A child.
Assembled from the fragments of dead mortals, powered by divine energy, and sparked to life by love and desperation, Leo Valdez became the first of his kind.
An android. A living being. A boy born not from a womb, but from the forge of a god.
This is the story of a child powerful enough to rival Olympus, yet forever torn between worlds.
A demigod made, not born.
A weapon, a legacy, a soul with fire in his heart.
This is the story of Leo Valdez.
